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About the Role

The Talent Acquisition Specialist (Japan) leads end-to-end recruitment for STACK Infrastructure's Japan business, partnering with hiring managers to attract, assess, and hire exceptional talent across various functions. This role supports workforce planning, talent acquisition strategy, and employer branding, ensuring compliance with Japanese employment legislation. As a key member of the People & Culture team, this role is integral to STACK's growth in Japan by building high-performing teams and attracting talent who embody the company's values.

Responsibilities

Manage end-to-end recruitment across Japan, delivering high-quality talent acquisition outcomes for technical, operational, corporate, and leadership roles.
Partner with hiring managers to develop workforce plans, define role requirements, competency profiles, interview processes, and hiring strategies.
Develop and execute sourcing strategies across various sectors including data centres, engineering, construction, critical infrastructure, technology, manufacturing, utilities, telecommunications, professional services, and corporate.
Build and maintain strong talent pipelines through recruitment agencies, LinkedIn, employee referrals, universities, technical institutions, professional associations, networking, and industry events.
Manage the full recruitment lifecycle, including candidate sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer management, onboarding coordination, and recruitment administration.
Deliver an exceptional candidate experience by ensuring timely communication, professional engagement, and efficient recruitment processes.
Coordinate interviews, technical assessments, site visits, onboarding activities, and recruitment communications.
Provide hiring managers and business leaders with regular recruitment updates, market intelligence, talent insights, and workforce analytics.
Build and maintain effective relationships with internal stakeholders, external recruitment partners, educational institutions, and industry networks.
Ensure recruitment activities comply with applicable Japanese employment legislation, privacy requirements, company policies, and internal governance standards.
Monitor recruitment performance, prepare reports and dashboards, and identify opportunities to improve recruitment efficiency, quality, and consistency.
Collaborate with People & Culture, Learning & Development, and operational leaders to support workforce capability, succession planning, certification requirements, and long-term talent development.
Champion STACK's values and foster a culture of safety, integrity, inclusion, operational excellence, customer focus, teamwork, and merit-based hiring.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business, Human Resources, Engineering, or a related discipline.
Experience recruiting within data centres, engineering, construction, manufacturing, critical infrastructure, facilities management, or technology environments.
Strong interest in technical and engineering recruitment, particularly within mission-critical or operational environments.
Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively in a multicultural environment.
Proven ability to manage multiple recruitment assignments and competing priorities in a fast-paced, high-growth organisation.
Experience using Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), HRIS, recruitment technologies, and onboarding platforms.
Professional proficiency in Japanese and business-level English (written and spoken).
Sound understanding of Japanese employment legislation, recruitment practices, onboarding requirements, and employment documentation.
High level of professionalism, discretion, and ability to maintain confidentiality when handling sensitive employee and candidate information.
Comfortable working in a dynamic, operationally critical environment with changing business priorities.
Demonstrated commitment to complying with STACK's policies, procedures, information security requirements, and behavioural standards.

Skills

Talent Acquisition
Recruitment
Workforce Planning
Employer Branding
Stakeholder Management
Candidate Experience
Sourcing Strategies
Talent Pipelines
Recruitment Lifecycle Management
ATS/HRIS Proficiency
Japanese Employment Legislation
Communication
Interpersonal Skills
Teamwork

Location

Japan

Work Type

Onsite
Office-based
Site-based
Stakeholder-facing

Experience Level

Mid-level

Education Level

Bachelor's degree

About the Company

STACK Infrastructure builds, owns, and operates hyperscale and colocation data centers that power the world’s most ambitious technology companies.
With a rapidly expanding footprint across APAC, STACK combines deep development expertise, flexible capital, and operational discipline to deliver critical digital infrastructure at scale.
Our clients include the largest hyperscale cloud platforms.
We are building a regional platform defined by speed of delivery, power reliability, and long-term partnership.

Equal Opportunity

STACK provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.