Title
Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition (Head of Talent Acquisition Candidate)
Salary
Approximately ¥25,000,000 salary, with flexibility based on experience and qualifications
Location
Tokyo, Japan
Reports To
Head of Human Resources
About the Company
A high-growth, global technology-focused organization is seeking an experienced Talent Acquisition leader to drive recruitment strategy and execution across multiple business entities. The company operates in a fast-paced environment with significant growth ambitions and a strong emphasis on attracting top technology talent globally.
About the Role
This is a senior leadership opportunity for an experienced Talent Acquisition professional to lead and scale recruitment operations across the organization and its affiliated businesses. The successful candidate will be responsible for shaping global hiring strategy, strengthening direct recruiting capabilities, building high-performing teams, and partnering with senior stakeholders to support business growth through talent acquisition excellence.
The role requires a hands-on leader who can combine strategic thinking with operational execution while driving continuous improvement across recruitment processes, employer branding, and talent attraction initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end talent acquisition strategy across the organization and affiliated business entities.
- Develop and execute global hiring strategies, with a particular focus on technology and engineering talent.
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing Talent Acquisition organization.
- Partner with business leaders to align workforce planning and hiring priorities with business objectives.
- Strengthen direct sourcing and direct recruiting capabilities to build sustainable talent pipelines.
- Drive large-scale recruitment initiatives across business, technology, and engineering functions.
- Improve sourcing effectiveness and reduce reliance on external recruitment agencies where appropriate.
- Enhance recruitment operations through data-driven decision-making, reporting, and process optimization.
- Establish and maintain high standards of candidate experience and recruitment excellence.
- Support employer branding and talent marketing initiatives to strengthen market visibility and attract top talent globally.
- Manage and develop recruiters, sourcing specialists, coordinators, and people leaders within the Talent Acquisition function.
Qualifications
Required
- Business-level proficiency in both Japanese and English.
- Significant experience leading global recruitment initiatives.
- Demonstrated success delivering hiring outcomes within large-scale or high-volume recruitment environments.
- Deep expertise in technology and engineering recruitment.
- Strong leadership and people management experience.
- Proven track record in direct sourcing and direct recruiting.
- Ability to operate strategically while remaining hands-on in execution.
- Experience collaborating with senior stakeholders on hiring strategy and workforce planning.
Preferred
- Experience within technology, fintech, internet, digital, or other high-growth organizations.
- Employer branding and talent marketing experience.
- Experience leveraging recruitment data and analytics to drive operational improvements.
- Experience managing teams of approximately 10 or more professionals.
- Background spanning both in-house Talent Acquisition and executive search/recruitment agency environments.
- Experience leading international or geographically distributed recruitment teams.
Why Join?
- Opportunity to lead a highly visible Talent Acquisition function during a significant growth phase.
- Direct influence on organizational growth through strategic hiring and workforce planning.
- Exposure to senior leadership and key business stakeholders.
- Ability to shape and scale a world-class global recruitment organization.
- Opportunity to build innovative, data-driven recruiting capabilities and processes.
- Hybrid working environment offering flexibility and collaboration.
- Competitive compensation package and long-term career growth potential.
