Senior Recruiter, Japan
ROLE OVERVIEW
The Senior Recruiter joins Harvey's Talent team as the founding recruiting hire in Tokyo, responsible for building GTM and G&A hiring pipelines across Japan. This role sits within Harvey's expanding APAC recruiting function. The strategic outcome is establishing Harvey's recruiting infrastructure and employer brand in Japan, enabling rapid team growth in one of the company's newest markets. The Senior Recruiter partners directly with hiring managers across sales, customer success, legal engineering, and corporate functions to deliver high-calibre talent in a competitive landscape. It is a rare opportunity to help build a founding team in Tokyo at one of the fastest-growing AI companies in legal technology.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Own full-cycle recruiting for GTM and G&A roles across Harvey's Tokyo office, from intake through close.
- Build and execute sourcing strategies tailored to the Japanese talent market, including direct outreach, agency partnerships, and employer branding.
- Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements, calibrate candidate profiles, and drive hiring-bar alignment across functions.
- Manage candidate pipeline health and reporting, providing data-driven updates to stakeholders on progress, conversion rates, and market conditions.
- Establish foundational recruiting processes and local interview workflows for the Tokyo market, coordinating closely with the APAC recruiting team and global Recruiting Operations.
WHAT YOU HAVE
- 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with demonstrated success hiring GTM roles in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- Experience recruiting in the Japanese market or strong familiarity with local hiring norms, compensation practices, and talent pools.
- Bilingual in Japanese and English.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to advise and influence hiring managers at all levels.
- Comfort working autonomously in an early-stage office environment, with a bias for action and a track record of building processes from scratch.
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