Senior Recruiter, Japan

Skills

About the Role

You will join the Talent team as the founding recruiting hire in Tokyo, building GTM and G&A hiring pipelines across Japan. You will partner with hiring managers across sales, customer success, legal engineering and corporate functions, establish recruiting infrastructure and employer brand locally, and coordinate with the APAC recruiting team and global Recruiting Operations.

Requirements

• 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with demonstrated success hiring GTM roles in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
• Experience recruiting in the Japanese market or strong familiarity with local hiring norms, compensation practices and talent pools
• Bilingual in Japanese and English
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to advise and influence hiring managers at all levels
• Comfort working autonomously in an early-stage office environment, with a track record of building processes from scratch

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting for GTM and G&A roles across the Tokyo office, from intake through close
• Build and execute sourcing strategies tailored to the Japanese talent market, including direct outreach, agency partnerships and employer branding
• Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements, calibrate candidate profiles and drive hiring-bar alignment
• Manage candidate pipeline health and reporting, providing data-driven updates on progress, conversion rates and market conditions
• Establish foundational recruiting processes and local interview workflows for the Tokyo market