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About the Role

Blue Bottle Coffee is seeking a Talent Acquisition Manager for Japan to lead recruitment efforts, develop hiring strategies, and execute creative hiring solutions for both corporate and frontline roles. This role involves partnering with leadership, managing recruiters, and improving recruitment processes.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall talent acquisition strategy and execution for Blue Bottle Coffee Japan.
• Lead end-to-end recruitment for corporate and office-based positions.
• Oversee recruitment for café teams, ensuring attraction and hiring of high-quality frontline talent.
• Partner with business and HR leaders to translate workforce plans into hiring plans.
• Personally lead critical, senior, or difficult-to-fill searches.
• Develop scalable and effective recruitment approaches for café positions across Japan.
• Partner closely with Café Operations and leaders to understand hiring demand and local talent-market conditions.
• Improve sourcing channels, recruitment campaigns, selection processes, and candidate conversion for frontline hiring.
• Balance hiring speed and volume with Blue Bottle’s standards for quality, hospitality, and culture.
• Continuously improve the candidate and hiring-manager experience.
• Build stronger sourcing capabilities and reduce reliance on external agencies.
• Use recruiting data and market insights to identify bottlenecks and improve hiring outcomes.
• Establish clear recruiting rhythms, processes, standards, and reporting for the Japan organization.
• Support employer-brand initiatives.
• Manage, coach, and develop one Recruiter, providing clear priorities, guidance, and ongoing feedback.
• Build trusted relationships with hiring managers and act as a talent advisor.
• Partner closely with the Head of Human Resources, Japan and the broader People team.
• Collaborate with regional and global People colleagues.

Requirements

• Solid experience in talent acquisition.
• 3 years of experience in the consumer industry.
• Experience recruiting across both corporate/professional roles and high-volume frontline or retail roles is strongly preferred.
• In-house experience is a must.
• Headhunter experience would be strongly preferred as an add-on.
• Strong hands-on sourcing and recruiting capability; comfortable personally running searches from intake through offer.
• Good understanding of the Japan talent market, recruiting channels, and candidate expectations.
• Ability to work effectively with senior business leaders as well as frontline operational teams.
• Strong judgment and ability to balance speed, quality, candidate experience, and business needs.
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment where processes and ways of working continue to evolve.
• Data-oriented and able to use recruiting metrics to identify problems and drive improvement.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Fluent Japanese and business-level English.

Experience Level

• 3 years above experience in the consumer industry

About the Company

• At Blue Bottle, our mission is to connect the world to delicious coffee.
• From seed to cup, we elevate the craft of coffee in everything we do.
• We strive to build a better tomorrow by investing in what matters: a sustainable future for our people, the company, and our planet.