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Today, our team is guided by our core values - Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy - and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.\nJob Description\nWe are looking for an experienced, curious and hands-on Recruiter to join our Talent Acquisition team in Tokyo. (4 days onsite is required at Yaesu Midtown Office).\nThis is an exciting opportunity to become the first full-time Recruiter to join our Head of Talent Acquisition in Japan, helping us continue to build and evolve our recruiting capability in the market.\nYou will work closely with the Head of Talent Acquisition, Japan and our RPO recruiting partners while taking ownership of searches across a diverse range of businesses, including real estate, logistics, data centers, infrastructure and investments, as well as other corporate functions as needed.\nThis role offers a unique opportunity for someone who already has a solid foundation in recruiting but wants to take their capabilities to the next level. Working directly with an experienced Talent Acquisition leader, you will have the opportunity to learn how to build recruiting strategies from the ground up and put them into practice, while developing deeper expertise across direct sourcing, talent mapping, stakeholder management, recruiting analytics, technology and employer branding.\nWe are looking for someone who enjoys solving recruiting problems. Japan can be a challenging talent market, but simply explaining why a search is difficult is not enough. We want someone whose instinct is to ask, “What else can we try?” and “Is there a smarter way to get there?”\nIf you are curious about businesses and people, enjoy finding talent others may not find, and want the opportunity to shape how recruiting is done in Japan, this could be a great next step in your recruiting career.\nWhat You’ll Do\nBuild and Execute Recruiting Strategies\nPartner closely with hiring managers to understand not only the requirements of a role, but the business need behind the hire.\nTranslate hiring needs into a clear recruiting strategy, considering the target talent market, sourcing channels, candidate proposition, timeline and potential challenges.\nWork backwards from target hiring dates to develop and execute a practical recruiting plan.\nManage the full recruitment lifecycle from initial search briefing and sourcing through interviews, feedback, offer management and pre-hire activities.\nMaintain momentum throughout the recruitment process and proactively drive next steps with candidates and hiring managers.\nManage multiple searches with different priorities and deadlines, making thoughtful decisions about where to focus time and resources.\nIdentify risks and bottlenecks early and recommend practical solutions before they impact hiring timelines.\nConduct talent mapping and market research to understand relevant organizations, talent pools and individual candidates.\nDevelop sustainable pipelines for recurring and strategically important hiring needs/\nWork as one team with our RPO recruiting partners, while personally owning key searches and direct-sourcing activity and helping maintain a consistent, high-quality recruiting approach.\nUse data, market feedback and candidate conversations to understand what may need to change.\nConsider alternative approaches such as adjacent talent pools, different sourcing strategies, referrals, talent communities, employer branding, external partners and new technology.\nDevelop strong relationships with hiring managers and senior business leaders.\nCommunicate confidently with stakeholders at different levels and across different geographies and cultures.\nMaintain accurate and timely candidate, requisition and recruiting activity information in Workday.\nUse recruiting data to understand pipeline health, identify bottlenecks and determine where action is needed.\nBring a high level of accuracy and attention to detail to candidate information and recruiting operations.\nBe comfortable with technology and quick to learn new systems and tools.\nJapanese Requirement (Fluency is Required)\nContribute to employer branding and talent attraction initiatives in Japan.\nDraft, review and edit high-quality Japanese-language content for candidates and external audiences.\nHelp develop content and ideas that communicate who we are, what we do and why talented people should consider joining us.\nWhat We’re Looking For\nWe don't expect every successful candidate to have followed the same career path. What matters most is your recruiting foundation, curiosity, judgment and ability to turn ideas into action.\nIdeal Candidate\nApproximately 5+ years of recruiting experience, ideally including experience within an in-house Talent Acquisition function.\nA strong track record of direct sourcing and engaging passive talent.\nStrong research and talent-mapping capabilities.\nThe ability to understand a business need and translate it into a practical recruiting strategy.\nExperience managing multiple searches with competing priorities and deadlines.\nA strong sense of ownership and urgency, with the ability to plan backwards from hiring deadlines and drive searches toward an outcome.\nCreative and resourceful problem-solving skills, with the ability to change strategy when an approach is not working.\nStrong analytical capabilities and the ability to use data and market feedback to determine next steps.\nConfidence with recruiting technology and ATS platforms. 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