lockConfidential Candidate Briefing
Shinka
Security
Shinka Security keeps enterprise data safe as Japan’s largest companies adopt AI — governing every prompt, agent and copilot from a single control plane.
Every Japanese enterprise is turning on AI this year. Whoever governs the data underneath it wins the decade.
Building a Japan platform with a defined commercial destination.
The approved plan pairs early design-partner traction with a six-person founding GTM team and a clear end-of-Year-2 revenue ambition.
Japan ARR target trajectory
Board-plan view · FY26 launch through end of Year 2 · Dashed line = target trajectory
Illustrative board-plan trajectory. The $8M ARR end-of-Year-2 target is the approved mandate; intermediate quarters are visual only.
$60M
Series B funding to scale from proof to platform3 of 10
Top Japanese manufacturers signed as design partners6 roles
Board-approved founding Japan GTM hires for FY26$8M ARR
Japan revenue target by the end of Year 2All figures in this section are invented for this demonstration and do not describe any real company.
The case for moving now
Formatted like the proof points a real briefing would carry — but every claim below is invented for Shinka Security.
Category leadership
Recognised as an emerging leader in AI data security, ahead of the incumbents on agent and copilot coverage.
Anchor customer signed
A top-three Japanese automaker has signed as lead design partner — a reference the first AE inherits on day one.
Executive commitment
The founder relocates to Tokyo one week each quarter; Japan is named the company’s number-one international priority.
The market is real, even when the company isn’t
Everything in this section is drawn from public Japanese sources and cited. It is deliberately separated from the invented Shinka Security claims above.
savingsSecurity spend is compounding
Japanese organisations are buying security faster than almost any other category of IT.
groupsThe talent to deliver it is scarce
Demand for security and IT professionals in Japan far outstrips supply — which is exactly why a founding team is hard to build and worth building well.
travel_exploreGlobal vendors are choosing Japan
Japan is the single largest destination for the kind of inbound technology investment a company like Shinka Security would represent.
A momentum story — illustrated, not real
A plausible funding and milestone arc for a company at this stage, so a candidate can picture the journey they would be joining.
Founded in San Francisco
Started by a group of enterprise-security leaders to secure how companies actually use AI.
USD 12M seed
First design partners in North American manufacturing and financial services.
USD 22M Series A · first Fortune 500
Product moves from data-loss prevention into full agent governance.
USD 60M Series B · 120 people · London opens
EMEA proves the model repeats outside the US; Asia named next.
Japan entry — founding GTM team
The roles on this page: the first sellers, engineers and partner lead in Tokyo.
What you’d be selling
Three fictitious product pillars — each with a note on why it matters for the people we’re hiring.
AI Data Firewall
Inspects every prompt and response across copilots and agents, blocking data exfiltration before it leaves the enterprise.
Agent Governance
Discovers autonomous AI agents, maps their permissions and enforces guardrails on what each one is allowed to do.
Posture & Compliance
Continuous AI-risk posture aligned to the frameworks Japanese enterprises answer to, including ISO 27001 and APPI.
Leadership
Invented people with generic but credible backgrounds. No photos or LinkedIn links — because they are not real.
Dr. Mara Ellison
Former VP of Security at a large cloud provider; PhD in machine learning. Founded Shinka Security after watching enterprises adopt AI faster than they could secure it.
Kenji Tan
Scaled a US security vendor’s APAC business from first hire to a regional team, with two prior Japan market-entry builds behind him.
Open roles
The first three founding hires. Compensation is marked illustrative but calibrated against real Tokyo enterprise-software and security GTM benchmarks.
Enterprise Account Executive
- check_circleLand the first enterprise logos in Japan
- check_circleBuild CISO-level pipeline from a standing start
- check_circleTurn the anchor design partner into a public reference
Senior Solutions Engineer
- check_circleOwn technical wins and proofs-of-concept
- check_circleTranslate agent governance into customer architecture
- check_circleEarn CISO trust as the technical face in Japan
Partner & Alliances Manager
- check_circleRecruit and enable the first Japan partners
- check_circleStand up co-sell motions with SIs and consultancies
- check_circleExtend reach beyond the direct sales team
OTE ranges are invented for the demo. They are set within the band that senior enterprise-software and security GTM roles command in Tokyo, so the example reads as realistic — they are not an offer.
Who thrives here — and a word from Grant
The traits that matter for a founding hire, each with a short, personal note from the search partner running this mandate.
Founding-team experience, not just a big logo
Native-level Japanese and confident business English
CISO-level relationships you can activate
Comfort building from zero
Coachable, and honest about what they don’t know
Grant Habgood
The person behind this briefing. Shinka Security is invented — Grant, his track record and Shinka Talent are not.
Grant Habgood
Founder, Shinka Talent · Japan GTM & Leadership Search
I have worked in Japan’s technology recruitment sector since 2006. At SThree I built and scaled a technology recruitment business to more than 70 consultants, and personally delivered over ¥300 million in placement revenue.
Today, through Shinka Talent — powered by TalentHub Solutions — I focus on Japan GTM and leadership search across enterprise software, cybersecurity, cloud-native infrastructure and data platforms. This page is the kind of branded briefing I build for a real mandate.
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Book a private briefing
A confidential conversation about this mandate or your own search.
Illustrative example quotes
Written for this demo to show how endorsements would read. Attributed only to generic, invented roles — never to real people or real companies.
Grant briefed us the way a good banker briefs a board — the market, the risk and the shortlist, all in one conversation.
The branded page did the first interview for us. Candidates arrived already understanding the mission and the market.
We had passed on the search twice with other firms. Grant closed it in one quarter with people we would not have reached.
Ask the Shinka Talent guide
An assistant trained on Shinka Talent’s real services and Grant’s real track record. It can explain the demo, the model, and how to book a conversation.
How Shinka Talent works
Retained leadership search, outbound RPO and Japan market-entry advisory, powered by TalentHub Solutions.
Why a branded search page
Ask what a page like this is for, and why it does the first interview before a candidate ever picks up the phone.
Fees
Fees depend on the type of search. The guide won’t quote a figure — it will point you to Shinka Talent directly.
Book a conversation
Ready to talk? The guide can hand you straight to Grant’s calendar.
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