Senior Specialist - Talent Acquisition, Japan & KR

WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.  We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.    We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise.   Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow.    For more information, visit WPP.com.   LOCATION: Tokyo, Japan   ABOUT US: WPP is the world’s leading creative transformation company. We bring together brilliant people to build better futures for our clients through an integrated offering of communications, experience, commerce, and technology. In Japan, we are strengthening how we support our specialized and production businesses by providing senior, high-impact people partnering—ensuring leaders have the organization, culture, and governance needed to deliver growth and build sustainable teams. We are seeking a Head of Talent to serve as the senior HR Business Partner across one or several of our business units within WPP Japan. This role partners closely with business leadership and works in collaboration with WPP Japan People Centers of Excellence (COEs) (e.g., Talent Attraction, Learning & Development, Rewards, Operations) to deliver best-in-class people outcomes.   WHO YOU ARE:   You are a senior HR business partner and trusted advisor who thrives in fast-paced, client-services environments. You balance strategic thinking with pragmatic execution, and you’re confident coaching leaders through complex people decisions. You don’t try to do everything yourself—your strength is in diagnosing business needs, setting a clear people agenda, and partnering with COEs to deliver consistent, high-quality solutions. You bring strong judgment, high integrity, and the personal courage to address issues directly while leading with empathy.   WHAT YOU’LL DO:   SENIOR HR BUSINESS PARTNERING (STRATEGIC + HANDS-ON) * Partner with leadership teams across WPP operating companies to shape and execute people plans aligned to business priorities (growth, capability, delivery, culture, and risk). * Act as a trusted advisor on organizational effectiveness, leadership, team dynamics, and employee engagement. * Operate as the primary People point of contact for the three businesses—able to move from executive-level strategy conversations to hands-on issue resolution as required. WORKFORCE PLANNING, ORG DESIGN & CHANGE * Lead workforce planning conversations (capacity, capability, succession risk, critical roles) and translate outcomes into practical actions with leaders and COEs. * Advise on org design (structures, roles, spans/layers, operating model) and support implementation planning (timelines, comms, manager enablement). * Partner with leaders to plan and execute change initiatives (transformations, restructuring, team transitions), staying close to execution to ensure adoption and minimal disruption. PERFORMANCE, REWARDS & TALENT OUTCOMES (DELIVERED THROUGH COES; DRIVEN BY YOU) * Drive consistent performance management practices (goal setting, feedback rhythms, calibration support, development actions, performance improvement guidance). * Partner with the Rewards COE on compensation processes (annual cycle, promotions, offer governance, internal equity) and provide hands-on support to leaders on decision-making, messaging, and documentation. * Support talent reviews and succession planning by aligning leaders on expectations and actions; coordinate development solutions via the L&D COE and follow through on outcomes. EMPLOYEE RELATIONS, COMPLIANCE & OPERATIONAL HR EXCELLENCE * Provide hands-on support on employee relations topics and manager capability (coaching, documentation, difficult conversations), escalating to specialists as needed. * Ensure compliance with Japan employment laws, internal policies, and governance requirements across the three businesses, including practical guidance that leaders can apply. * Identify people-related risks early (retention, workload, conduct, engagement) and drive mitigation plans—tracking actions through to completion. CULTURE, ENGAGEMENT & DEI ENABLEMENT * Partner with leaders to build inclusive, high-performing cultures aligned to WPP values. * Support engagement planning and manager effectiveness; collaborate with DEI and L&D COEs to deliver targeted interventions, while reinforcing day-to-day leadership behaviors locally.   KEY QUALITIES:   We’re looking for someone who embodies the following qualities: * Zoom-Out / Zoom-In Operator: Comfortable shifting between strategy, advisory, and hands-on operational execution. * Trusted Advisor & Coach: Strong executive presence; able to influence and challenge constructively. * Business-First HRBP: Connects people decisions to commercial outcomes and delivery realities. * Collaborative Driver: Works through COEs to deliver TA/L&D solutions, while staying close enough to execution to ensure quality and speed. * Change-Oriented: Confident leading through ambiguity and transformation at pace. * High Judgment & Integrity: Handles sensitive matters with discretion, fairness, and consistency. * Data-Informed: Uses workforce and engagement insights to guide recommendations and priorities.   QUALIFICATIONS:   * Experience: 10+ years of HR experience, including 3+ years in a senior HRBP/People leadership role supporting professional, client-services organizations. * Industry Background: Communications, marketing, consulting, PR, creative, production, or adjacent services industry experience strongly preferred. * Functional Strength: Demonstrated capability across employee relations, org design, workforce planning, performance management, and rewards partnership—plus the ability to execute operationally when needed. * Legal/Compliance: Solid knowledge of Japan employment law and HR best practices. * Communication: Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills; effective with senior leaders and diverse stakeholder groups. * Mindset: Accountable, proactive, resilient, growth-minded, and empathetic; able to operate strategically and execute consistently. * Language Skills: Fluency in Japanese and English (written and spoken).   WHY JOIN US?   At WPP Japan, you’ll have the opportunity to: * Lead senior people partnering across a rapidly evolving, complex organization with multiple operating companies—businesses at the heart of modern brand building. * Shape organizational effectiveness and culture while staying close to execution and real business needs. * Deliver impact through strong collaboration with WPP Japan COEs in a globally connected organization. * Grow your scope across dynamic, high-performing teams in a fast-evolving market.   We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process. WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers. PLEASE READ OUR PRIVACY NOTICE (HTTPS://WWW.WPP.COM/EN/CAREERS/WPP-PRIVACY-POLICY-FOR-RECRUITMENT) FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW WE PROCESS THE INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE.

Cloudflare

About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.  At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in. AVAILABLE LOCATIONS * Tokyo, Japan ABOUT THE ROLE We are hiring for a Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partner to join our Japan Go To Market hiring efforts. In this role, you will act as a true talent advisor and go-to-market specialist, driving the expansion of our sales and GTM teams. You will operate autonomously, utilizing your deep market expertise, AI-driven strategies, and extensive network to hire top-tier talent for Cloudflare. RESPONSIBILITIES * End-to-End Recruitment & Talent Strategy: Build and execute comprehensive talent strategies to help hiring leaders build high-performing teams, functioning similarly to how a salesperson puts together a go-to-market plan. * Proactive Pipeline & Passive Candidate Outreach: Draw upon your extensive network of industry contacts and candidates to build pipeline strategies for a variety of GTM roles with a heavy focus on Account Executives and Customer Engineers. * Stakeholder Management & Advising: Build and maintain solid relationships with the GEO VP and cross functional stakeholders, including Finance, HRBPs and compensation teams. * AI-Driven Efficiency & Process Optimization: Integrate AI tools to enhance your daily productivity, such as using generative AI to craft highly personalized outreach messages at scale, automate repetitive administrative workflows, and synthesize market data to inform your talent strategies. * Data Utilization & Analytics: Use data analytics to inform recruitment strategies, actively analyzing metrics such as time-to-hire and source efficiency to drive decisions and optimize processes. * Employer Branding & Market Awareness: Lead and execute strategic employer branding initiatives tailored to the Japan market to elevate Cloudflare's profile as a top destination for GTM talent. DESIRABLE SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, AND EXPERIENCE * Extensive GTM Recruiting Experience: You are a respected Senior Recruiter with a proven track record of success, and well-versed in your craft. * Strategic Problem Solving: You operate two "plays" ahead and can anticipate potential bottlenecks or challenges before they have a chance to materialize. You regularly resolve complex issues with little support from managers and make sound decisions that drive positive business outcomes * Negotiation & Closing Skills: You are an effective negotiator who is often able to get candidates over the line who might have otherwise taken offers elsewhere. You understand and can explain Cloudflare’s value proposition * AI & Tool Proficiency: You bring innovative solutions to your role, actively leveraging AI automation (such as AI-powered sourcing assistants and LLMs for complex Boolean logic/market mapping) to multiply your efficiency. You also must have a good grasp of the advanced features of modern recruiting tools * Candidate Experience Focus: You are well organized and proactive, ensuring candidates rarely stay in the 'gray stage' for extended periods while communicating clearly about any delays. * Communication: While the majority of your work experience will be in Japanese, we do require you to comfortable with written and verbal communications in English to work with cross functional teams globally What Makes Cloudflare Special? We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet. Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost. Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states. 1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers. Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you! Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs.  More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process. This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license. Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness.  All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer. Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.  Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.  If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.

On

At a Glance We are looking for a Senior Specialist to join our Product Talent Acquisition team. You will be a hands-on contributor focused on delivering key Product Creation hires, collaborating closely with hiring managers and the broader TA team to build efficient, high-quality hiring processes. You bring strong sourcing and stakeholder management skills, and a deep commitment to candidate experience and excellent outcomes. Your Mission * Manage full-cycle recruitment processes for Apparel and Accessories Product Creation roles  * Partner with Apparel and Accessories Product Creation leaders to understand hiring needs, align on role profiles, and develop search strategies * Drive sourcing, screening, stakeholder communication, and offer management with a focus on quality and clarity * Collaborate with recruiting coordination and TA operations to ensure smooth and professional candidate experiences * Use data and insights to support hiring decisions and improve search effectiveness * Support broader TA initiatives such as tooling, processes, and employer branding as needed Your Story * You bring extensive experience in Talent Acquisition with a focus on Product roles within fast-paced and international environments. * Background in consumer goods companies or creative industries is highly preferred * You have a proven track record of hiring across a range of disciplines within Product Creation * A keen awareness of global and cultural trends that shape the world of brands  * You are confident partnering with hiring managers, providing market insights and clear recommendations * You are proactive and hands-on with sourcing, skilled in tools like LinkedIn Recruiter and ATS platforms (Greenhouse, Workday, etc.) * You are passionate about delivering an excellent candidate experience and representing the brand professionally * You thrive in collaborative, fast-moving environments and handle multiple priorities effectively * Background in consumer goods companies, Luxury or creative industries is highly preferred YOUR TEAM: Being part of the talent team at On means consistently questioning the status quo. 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. Because this is what matters to us. Because we are On.