About the Role
This role is designed for an independent, data-driven recruiter who strives for process excellence and efficiency, whilst continuously seeking innovative ways to deliver an unforgettable, high-integrity experience to both candidates and hiring managers.
Responsibilities
- Independently own and execute full-cycle searches across all professional levels, including complex and senior corporate/specialist searches.
- Act as a strategic talent advisor to hiring managers.
- Design and implement targeted search strategies prior to role kickoff.
- Drive workflow efficiency and hold hiring managers and interviewers strictly accountable to agreed-upon processes.
- Identify pipeline bottlenecks, execute workflows autonomously, and coach partners on recruitment best practices.
- Proactively collate market mapping and historical data at search kickoff to inform sourcing strategies.
- Utilize data to tell a compelling story, influence hiring teams, and backup recruiting goals and projections.
- Facilitate strong alignment within hiring teams, address search misalignments early, and build deep partnerships across the talent ecosystem.
- Manage up effectively by proposing solutions first.
- Mentor junior recruiters on the implementation of advanced workflow technologies and AI tools.
- Lead by example and protect cultural standards by coaching hiring teams on how to accurately and cleanly assess company values without bias.
Requirements
- Minimum of 8+ years of experience in full-cycle recruiting within a high-growth corporate environment, professional agency, or fast-paced global company.
- Proven history of independently managing a complex, multi-level portfolio of searches and collaborating successfully with senior functional leaders.
- Demonstrated ability to proactively map talent markets, design tailored candidate pitches, and handle sophisticated compensation negotiations.
- Strong analytical capabilities with experience leveraging recruitment metrics to influence business decisions.
- Experience providing high-quality peer feedback, onboarding/ramming newer team members, and elevating overall team capability.
- A passion for consistently delivering a high-touch, "wow" experience to candidates throughout their journey.
Skills
- Data-driven recruiting
- Process excellence
- Efficiency
- Innovative sourcing
- Strategic business partnering
- Talent market mapping
- Advanced TA knowledge
- Offer negotiation
- Workflow automation
- Recruitment best practices
- Data analysis
- Greenhouse reports and dashboards
- Cross-functional communication
- Mentorship
- Digital agility
- AI tools
- Culture assessment
- Brand ambassadorship
- English fluency
- Japanese fluency
Location
- Tokyo, Japan
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 8+ years
About the Company
- On’s explosive growth
- Being part of the APAC Talent Acquisition team at On means doing things differently; we don't do things just because they are what “HR does”. We build, grow, enable, and empower the team to drive the future of On.
