HR Leader / Manager Candidate

This full-time HR leadership-track role is based at TBM’s head office in Chiyoda, Tokyo. The position works with executives and business leaders to support the growth of the organization through people and culture initiatives.

Responsibilities include creating and executing overall workforce plans for experienced and new graduate hiring, and developing hiring strategies for individual positions, including channel selection and target setting. The role also covers recruitment communications and marketing, direct recruiting, referral recruiting, and external communication of the TBM Compass principles to help attract talent. As an HRBP for assigned business units, the person will manage organizational strategy, recruitment progress, and selling, general and administrative expense control. The posting also seeks someone who can conduct advanced and strategic recruiting, including effective use of AI and attention to hiring costs and speed.

Required experience includes working as a recruitment manager, HRBP, or HR planning professional in an operating company in one of the following sectors: startups, manufacturing, IT, or megaventures. Candidates must have experience planning and executing recruitment strategies with executives or department-level leaders, as well as experience designing referral and direct-hiring programs.

Preferred experience includes workforce planning and personnel-cost design during an IPO or listing-preparation phase, global recruitment or acquiring talent for overseas offices, and improving referral recruiting through ATS and HR data analysis.

TBM is a Japan-origin deep-tech startup working in the GX field, including environmental materials, resource circulation, carbon recycling, and recycled-material businesses. The role belongs to the people and culture function and supports a company developing LIMEX and other materials and building resource- and carbon-circulation businesses. The posting describes the company as being in a phase of simultaneous business and organizational development.

Working hours are 9:00 to 18:00, including a 60-minute break. Holidays are Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays, and December 30 through January 3, with 120 annual holidays stated. One holiday workday per year may occur for the TBM CAMP off-site meeting. Employment is full-time with a six-month probationary period. Compensation uses a daily-monthly salary system and is determined based on experience, skills, and potential; the amount is available for consultation. Compensation is reviewed twice a year and may rise or fall depending on performance evaluation. Benefits include a housing allowance, furniture relocation assistance subject to conditions, commuting support up to JPY 30,000, three days of special leave at joining subject to conditions, a reduced-hours system subject to conditions, and award-based incentives. The head office is smoke-free. The selection process consists of application, document screening, several interviews, and an offer; an SPI assessment may be required depending on the position.