Talent Acquisition Specialist

This role leads recruitment activities that support organizational growth in the fusion-energy business. The specialist works closely with executives and business departments to identify hiring needs, define requirements, execute recruitment plans, and improve hiring processes.

Responsibilities include candidate pipeline development, candidate communication, interview coordination, offer handling, direct recruiting channel management, and relationship building with recruitment agencies. The role also plans and operates recruitment events, company information sessions, and casual interviews. Additional work includes recruitment communications and employer-branding initiatives, improving candidate experience and hiring-process communication, analyzing recruitment data, monitoring hiring KPIs, improving operational efficiency, establishing processes and rules, and planning new measures based on recruitment-market and competitor research.

Applicants should have practical experience in an HR department, with five years indicated as a guideline. Required experience includes leading recruitment work and continuous improvement at a company in Japan, including recruitment planning, candidate-pipeline development, selection-process design and improvement, and closing. The posting also requires a basic understanding of Japanese labor laws, labor-related rules, and HR systems, as well as operational experience with a job-based HR system or an equivalent system. The role requires the ability to respond appropriately and quickly to inquiries and consultations from related departments and employees, coordinate multiple tasks and projects in parallel, prioritize by importance and urgency, and work independently and systematically.

Experience in mid-career hiring, startup or venture-company recruitment, hiring for specialized roles such as engineering, research and development, or business development, direct recruiting and scouting, recruitment branding, recruitment events, and hiring in deep technology, energy, manufacturing, or research-driven companies is welcomed. Experience hiring global or foreign-national talent is also welcomed.

The position is full-time and is based at the Tokyo headquarters office in Ota, Tokyo. Work at the Tokyo satellite office in Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku may also be possible from June 2026. Remote work is negotiable for people living within commuting distance. Domestic or overseas transfers may be possible. Working hours are 9:00 to 18:00 with a one-hour break, and a flextime system may apply. Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays are holidays, with at least 120 annual holidays. Benefits include social insurance, other benefits, salary increases, and special paid leave granted upon joining. The posting states that employment as a contract employee may also be possible.