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About the Role
UltraSuperNew Tokyo is seeking a People & Culture Manager to foster employee growth, manage talent, and ensure smooth operations. This role acts as a strategic partner, focusing on recruitment, retention, career development, and compliance with Japanese labor laws, while building and nurturing a world-class team.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute proactive sourcing strategies to attract top-tier creative and agency talent.
- Build and maintain active candidate pipelines for core agency roles.
- Track turnover and engagement metrics, identify retention risks, and promote USN culture.
- Manage the full employee lifecycle, including onboarding, probation check-ins, and exit interviews.
- Maintain HR documentation, contracts, handbooks, and policies.
- Oversee visa and immigration procedures for international team members.
- Lead performance review cycles and partner with Finance on salary equity.
- Design career growth maps, leveling frameworks, leadership training, and mentor programs.
- Connect growth frameworks to performance evaluations, promotions, and compensation.
- Ensure compliance with Japanese labor laws, work rules, and safety obligations.
- Collaborate to monitor workload, resolve staffing bottlenecks, and prevent burnout.
- Maintain the agency’s external partner and freelancer roster.
- Monitor team sentiment and partner on culture initiatives.
Requirements
- Must be located in Tokyo.
- Business-level fluency or higher in both Japanese and English (written & spoken).
- 5+ years in HR / People Management (with at least 2 years in a senior or standalone capacity).
- Experience ideally within a creative, advertising, or marketing agency environment.
- Proven experience in proactive recruitment, talent pipeline construction, and candidate engagement.
- Solid, practical grasp of Japanese employment regulations, work rules, visa processing, and statutory requirements.
- Exceptional judgment and maturity when handling sensitive compensation, exit, or personnel matters.
- Skilled at advising and collaborating with department leads, Finance, and leadership.
- Comfortable building HR, onboarding, and recruitment workflows from scratch in a dynamic setting.
Skills
- Talent Acquisition
- Talent Retention
- Employer Branding
- Employee Lifecycle Management
- HR Administration
- Performance Management
- Career Development
- Japanese Employment Law
- Workload Management
- Stakeholder Influence
- Process Building
Location
- Tokyo
- Shibuya, Tokyo
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years HR/People Management
- 2+ years senior or standalone capacity
Benefits
- Statutory holidays
- Generous annual paid leave
- Full commuting allowance
- Social, Labor, Employment Insurance
- Pension
About the Company
- UltraSuperNew Tokyo is a creative, advertising, or marketing agency.