Senior Recruiter, Japan

Harvey
Tokyo, Japan
Hybrid

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for candidates with deep Japanese market expertise who can build foundational recruiting processes in a fast-growing AI legal tech environment.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience in fast-growing tech environments
    — “7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with demonstrated success hiring GTM roles in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.”
  • Individuals with a strong understanding of Japanese talent markets and hiring norms
    — “Experience recruiting in the Japanese market or strong familiarity with local hiring norms, compensation practices, and talent pools.”
  • Bilingual professionals with fluency in Japanese and English
    — “Bilingual in Japanese and English.”

Things to consider

  • This role requires building infrastructure from scratch in a new market with limited existing structure.
    — “It is a rare opportunity to help build a founding team in Tokyo at one of the fastest-growing AI companies in legal technology.”
  • Candidates must be comfortable working independently in an early-stage office environment.
    — “Comfort working autonomously in an early-stage office environment.”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in building new recruiting processes and employer branding from scratch.
    — “Establish foundational recruiting processes and local interview workflows for the Tokyo market.”
  • Emphasize your ability to partner with hiring managers on defining role requirements and aligning hiring bars.
    — “Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements, calibrate candidate profiles, and drive hiring-bar alignment across functions.”
  • Showcase your data-driven approach to managing candidate pipelines and market insights.
    — “Manage candidate pipeline health and reporting, providing data-driven updates to stakeholders on progress, conversion rates, and market conditions.”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • owning full-cycle recruiting for GTM and G&A roles across Harvey's Tokyo office
  • building and executing sourcing strategies tailored to the Japanese talent market
  • partnering with hiring managers to define role requirements
Typical background
7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experiencedemonstrated success hiring GTM roles in a fast-paced, high-growth environment

Skills & requirements

Required

Full-cycle Recruiting ExperienceBuilding And Executing Sourcing StrategiesPartnering With Hiring ManagersManaging Candidate Pipeline Health And ReportingEstablishing Foundational Recruiting Processes

Preferred

Recruiting In The Japanese MarketStrong Familiarity With Local Hiring NormsCompensation PracticesTalent Pools

Stack & domain

Full-cycle RecruitingSourcing StrategiesDirect OutreachAgency PartnershipsEmployer BrandingRole RequirementsCandidate ProfilesHiring-bar AlignmentCandidate Pipeline HealthReportingMarket ConditionsRecruiting ProcessesLocal Interview WorkflowsAPAC Recruiting TeamGlobal Recruiting Operations

About the role

Original posting from Harvey via Ashby

WHY HARVEY

At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise, we’re reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come.

This is a rare chance to help build a generational company at a true inflection point. We have strong product-market fit and world-class investor support. We’re scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious, the bar is high, and the opportunity for growth — personal, professional, and financial — is unmatched.

Our team moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission — operating with intensity, staying close to our customers, and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values: Decisiveness, Simplicity, and Job's Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive, we'd love to build with you.

At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started.

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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Harvey is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made by emailing accommodations@harvey.ai

Source: Harvey careers (Ashby)

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