Project Management in Japan

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Our Recruitment Team & Our Values Guidepoint’s Recruitment team is an integral part of a company that prides itself on identifying the most qualified person for the job. Our team focuses on maintaining integrity and promoting diversity, highlighting our dedication to creating an environment where every candidate is treated equitably, regardless of their background. By utilizing innovative sourcing techniques, attending campus events, and expanding our brand presence, we attract and hire top talent from all over the world. The team consists of 35+ high-performing individuals from various backgrounds who work across 3 continents and 9 countries to make impactful hires for every department at Guidepoint. Your Role We are seeking a highly skilled and strategic Senior Recruiter to manage and drive end-to-end hiring for our Tokyo office. This individual will play a critical role in building our talent pipeline, elevating our employer brand, and ensuring we attract, assess, and hire top-tier talent. A Day in Your New Role: Own full-cycle recruitment for our Japan hirings across different departments, including sourcing, direct candidate outreach, interviewing, and offer management Develop and execute recruitment strategies aligned with business goals Build and maintain relationships with hiring managers across multiple departments Partner with hiring managers to forecast hiring needs, improve quality of hire, and drive a collaborative, consistent hiring process Implement data-driven recruitment practices and track key metrics (time to hire, offer acceptance rate, quality of hire, etc.) Collaborate with the Global TA team to standardize processes and share best practices across regions What You Have: Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field 2 to 3+ years of experience in full-cycle recruiting, in-house or agency Native fluency in Japanese Business level proficiency in English Strong

Overview: The Client Service team connects Guidepoint’s clients with subject-matter experts to better inform their business decisions. They take the time to understand each client’s specific research needs and deliver the experts closest to the topic, often within hours. Interview Process: Meet your Guidepoint Recruiter! Initial Candidate Screen Meet the Guidepoint Teams! Hiring Manager Interview Hiring Team Interview Mock Assessment Complete a stimulated client request and gain more insight into the role Mock Review Interview Interview Process Outcome Who We Are: Team-oriented and collaborative Hard-working professionals who strive for excellence Built-in mentorship to help you drive and improve your project management and customer service skills, to deliver excellent results for clients Hands-on leadership to help you develop your career and provide opportunities for upward mobility within Guidepoint Guidepoint is passionate about your career growth: Check out our Client Service Career Trajectory. What you will own: Work with Project Managers and other team members to develop strategies for satisfying each client project request Operate in a sales environment to identify the best experts to join our network who provide consultant for client projects Utilize LinkedIn, press releases, case studies and the internet to identify the best experts for clients to get their strategic or investment questions answered Screen experts for their suitability for specific client projects and create professional profiles for client consideration Operate with a global teamwork mentality that leads to building and maintaining strong relationships with other Guidepoint employees, offices, and Advisors Experience you will bring: Bachelor’s degree or above Previous internship, volunteering or extracurriculars Skills you will bri

OVERVIEW: Guidepoint’s Human Resources team thrives on problem-solving and creating happier employees. As Guidepoint works to achieve its mission of making individuals, businesses, and the world smarter through personalized knowledge-sharing solutions, the Tokyo, Japan office is looking for a Human Resources Manager to help improve our culture and people programs. As Guidepoint’s HR Manager located in our office in Tokyo, Japan you will embrace the opportunity to shape a high-performing organization, using your sound ideas and management skills to ensure that HR initiatives and services are aligned with business objectives and are delivered effectively to enhance employee engagement, productivity, and retention. 概要 ガイドポイントのHRチームは、問題解決を通じた従業員の幸福度向上に日々邁進しています。オーダーメイドのナレッジ共有ソリューションを通じて、よりスマートな人と企業、世界をつくるという当社ミッションの達成に取り組むなか、東京オフィスでは当社の企業文化や人材プログラムの向上を担う人事マネージャーを募集しています。 東京オフィス所属のHRマネージャーには、アイデアとマネジメントスキルを駆使しながら、従業員のエンゲージメントと生産性、リテンションが上がるよう、事業目標に沿った人事施策やサービスを効率よく提供することを通じて、ハイパフォーマンス組織の形成にあたっていただきます。 Key Responsibilities: Foster a positive work environment by promoting open communication and conflict resolution Develop and implement employee engagement initiatives to boost morale and productivity Ensure that performance reviews are conducted regularly and align with company goals Provide coaching and guidance to managers on performance-related issues Conduct regular market analysis to benchmark salaries and benefits Coordinate with local payroll provider and Head of Global Payroll on monthly payroll changes Address employee concerns, grievances, and disciplinary issues in a timely and fair manner Prepare regular reports on HR metrics, such as turnover rates, recruitment efficiency and internal mobility Identify training needs across the organization and develop appropriate training programs Coordinate and deliver training sessions, workshops, and seminars Ensure that the company complies with all local employment laws and regulations Manage all the office administration

About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. About the Role This is a founding role. As a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL), you will define how OpenAI delivers complex systems to customers. You will own how they are built, shipped, and adopted. You’ll translate business outcomes into a technical plan, run day-to-day execution across FDEs, Researchers, and Customer Engineers, and partner with customer teams to ensure delivery supports their goals. This is not a management role, however you'll own delivery end-to-end: embedding with customers to map workflows and success criteria, ensuring components ship on time, and leading readiness and change management for adoption. You’ll track progress, manage dependencies, make sequencing decisions, and drive 0→1 prototypes through MVP and scale. You will also share field insights with Product and Research to guide roadmap and priorities. Success will be measured first and foremost by impact - deployments that deliver measurable value against customer goals, drive adoption, and become critical to their workflows. Additional measures of success include delivery reliability (milestones hit, low reopen/churn), operating leverage (patterns reused across deployments), judgment under pressure, and product impact (field signal that shifts roadmaps/architectures). This is a high-trust, high-autonomy role. Success requires deep technical project management expertise, extreme ownership of outcomes, and an ability to immerse in customer workflows and partner with customer teams to solve complex engineering problems at pace. This role is based in Tokyo. We use a hybrid model of 3 days in office and offer relocation assistance. Travel up to 25-50% is required. To succeed in this position you must be fully bilingual—fluent in both Japanese and English (spoken and writt

We are looking for a Recruiting Sourcer to play a key role in the continued growth and success of Datadog by finding exceptional talent. The Recruiting Sourcer will partner closely with Recruiters to develop creative and tailored strategies to engage passive candidates. You will be the first point of contact for new candidates in the hiring process, playing a critical role in identifying great candidates and telling the Datadog story. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Generate and maintain active and passive candidate pipeline for complex, hard-to-fill positions using various sources such as: LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, Sourcing Campaigns, Google X Ray searching, previous event attendee lists, etc.. Amplify and champion job openings internally and work with our employee base to find hidden talent in their networks. Develop and implement strategic sourcing plans and track progress throughout the search to be shared with stakeholders Use your own research to get creative on where to find talent that otherwise might stay off the radar including diverse talent Map out the talent market, keeping a pulse of talent flow, market attrition, and which companies employ the talent we are after Specialize in event/project management, messaging analysis, creative prospecting, and stakeholder engagement Who You Are: An established Recruiter or Sourcer with 3+ years of experience working for a search firm or in-house recruiting team for high volume recruiting An individual with a high sense of urgency, strong communication skills and detail-oriented Tenacious and passionate about sourcing and engaging candidates Able to work independently and simultaneously on multiple roles An individual with a proven track record of engaging ta

Datadog is seeking a Senior Partner Enablement Manager to drive onboarding, activation, and enablement across our APAC partner ecosystem. Working closely with Partner Sales Managers, partner organizations, and the Global Partner Enablement team, you'll help partners build the skills and knowledge needed to successfully position, sell, and support Datadog. Reports to: Manager, Global Partner Programs, Channels & Alliances. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture—the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You'll Do Execute partner enablement programs across APAC. Deliver onboarding experiences that accelerate partner productivity. Roll out training, certifications, workshops, webinars, and enablement initiatives. Partner with Partner Sales Managers to identify and activate high-potential partners. Adapt global enablement content and programs for regional needs. Gather partner feedback and recommend program improvements. Track readiness, participation, and activation metrics. Serve as a trusted enablement resource for partners across APAC. Travel across the region to deliver training, workshops, and partner events. Who You Are: 4+ years of experience in partner enablement, sales enablement, channel programs, training, or related SaaS/technology roles. Experience working with channel, alliance, reseller, MSP, cloud, or technology partners. Experience with partner onboarding, activation, or success programs. Familiarity with LMS, certification, or enablement platforms. Experience working across APAC markets and cultures. Background in SaaS, cloud, observability, or infrastructure technologies. Knowledge of partner recruitment, segmentation, or consumption-based business models. Strong facilitation, presentation, communication, and project management skills. Experience developing or delivering onboardin

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us! As an Onboarding Manager, you'll partner with our largest customers and help set them up for immediate success by leading them through a clearly defined onboarding process. You'll build and leverage key cross-functional relationships across Sales, Marketing, and Product Support as you deliver an exceptional onboarding experience. You'll use metrics, customer feedback, and direct experience to help identify new initiatives and materials needed to better engage and support our customers. You bring strong communication and project management skills, and a genuine investment in customer outcomes. This is a full-time, hybrid role based out of our Tokyo hub. What you'll do at Figma: Own and manage the onboarding process for our largest customers from pre-sales through successful onboarding closeout Partner closely with Account Executives to ensure smooth customer handoff experience Understand customer goals and successfully manage their onboarding timeline towards value Collaborate with Technical Account Managers, Designer Advocates, and Product Support to drive a seamless customer onboarding experience Report on metrics and customer feedback to assess the impact of successful onboarding and to help identify new customer initiatives and product opportunities Develop content and enablement resources for customers to use for training/education and to help accelerate product adoption Understand and consult on product and industry best practices in order to act as a trusted advisor to our customers and in

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The community you will join: At Airbnb, the Growth Marketing team sits at the dynamic crossroads of marketing, engineering, and data science. We’re responsible for driving Airbnb’s business performance by deploying innovative, data-driven marketing strategies. The difference you will make: As Growth Marketing Lead, you’ll have a unique opportunity to shape Airbnb’s growth narrative in Japan. You’ll be the champion for Growth Marketing channels, translating strategic vision into actionable plans and flawless execution. You’ll identify and prioritize high-impact opportunities, manage complex cross-functional projects, and collaborate with global and regional teams. Your leadership will ensure not only the ongoing success of our core marketing programs, but also the discovery of new areas of growth for your market. Your responsibilities: Develop and Execute Growth Marketing Strategies: Identify and incorporate local nuances to infuse authentic local flavor into Growth Marketing initiatives, ensuring strategies are tailored to resonate with local cultures, preferences, and market conditions. Cross-Functional Leadership: Build strong relationships with regional and global teams, setting and managing expectations effectively to deliver measurable business impact. Establish and optimize operating rhythm and ways of working. Project Management: Partner closely with Regional Marketing, Engineering, Product, Data Science, and Creative teams to align on priorities, shape product roadmaps, and lead the planning and execution of Growth Marketing initiatives—ensuring flawless delivery, clear accountability

Overview: The Strategic Research team is the backbone of Guidepoint’s success. The team is responsible for efficiently delivering Guidepoint’s services to our clients around the world. We work to understand each client’s unique business questions and help them gain critical insights to stay informed and make better business decisions. As an Associate on the Strategic Research team you will focus on making the right connections between our global clients and local Advisors across numerous industries. Your role will focus on researching industries relevant to client project requests and recruiting elite subject matter experts into our network to ensure the right connection is made. After you master these core skills of recruiting and connecting Advisors with clients, you will gain additional exposure to more complex project and client relationship management as you grow your career here and move into Research Manager and Project Manager roles. To support our overseas clients, some roles may participate in rotational work coverage during public holidays. Team members who work on these days will receive time off in lieu, to be taken on another working day by arrangement with the team. What you will own: Work in cross-cultural teams with our Project Managers from offices globally in order to deliver the best possible service for our global clients Review and analyze client research requests and use a range of resources to domestically identify the most relevant subject matter experts across geographies, industries, and topics for each project Utilize the phone, LinkedIn, and outreach to recruit new Advisors in Japan to join the Guidepoint network by effectively communicating why their expertise is a good match for the specific project you’re working on Screen experts for their suitability for specific client projects and create professional profiles for client consideration Operate with a teamwork mentality that leads to building and maintaining strong relationships with

As a Senior Enterprise Customer Success Manager, you will be responsible for driving the healthy adoption and positive experience of some of Datadog’s largest and most strategic customers. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Partner with Sales and Technical Solutions to proactively drive adoption from onboarding through to maturity. Own and project manage the on-boarding process for new customers. Discover, own and manage the customer’s success plan. Ensure consistent alignment with decision makers on the impact of their investment in Datadog. Proactively build and maintain targeted relationships with people of influence throughout the customer base. Collaborate cross-functionally with internal Datadog teams (sales, support, enablement, product, finance, and legal). Monitor and analyze usage trends to uncover potential renewal opportunities and risks. Act as the primary owner of customer adoption and health. Support your colleagues and cross functional teammates in the development of best practices. With demonstrated understanding of observability and security platforms, align customers technical and business objectives to our platform offerings Who You Are: Min of 5+ years in a Customer Success or Account Management role in B2B SaaS (Exp in serving a technical audience a plus). Strong experience working with a portfolio of accounts that included large Enterprise. Excellent in driving discovery to understand your customers key pain points, objectives and priorities. Demonstrate expert level in communicating complex concepts and aligning them to the pains and objectives of your customers. Experienced in shifting your message effectively to align with the expectations of the audience. You’re excited to work i

As an Enterprise Customer Success Manager, you will be responsible for driving the healthy adoption and positive experience of some of Datadog’s largest and most strategic customers. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Partner with Sales and Technical Solutions to proactively drive adoption from onboarding through to maturity. Own and project manage the on-boarding process for new customers. Discover, own and manage the customer’s success plan. Ensure consistent alignment with decision makers on the impact of their investment in Datadog. Proactively build and maintain targeted relationships with people of influence throughout the customer base. Collaborate cross-functionally with internal Datadog teams (sales, support, enablement, product, finance, and legal). Monitor and analyze usage trends to uncover potential renewal opportunities and risks. Act as the primary owner of customer adoption and health. With demonstrated understanding of observability and security platforms, align customers technical and business objectives to our platform offerings Who You Are: 3+ years in a Customer Success or Account Management role in B2B SaaS. Experience working with a portfolio of accounts that included large Enterprise. Experienced in driving discovery to understand your customers key pain points, objectives and priorities. Excellent in communicating complex concepts and aligning them to the pains and objectives of your customers. Experienced in shifting your message effectively to align with the expectations of the audience. You’re excited to work in a fast paced environment, where you’re expected to consistently develop your skill set and play an active role in the development of the team’s best practices. Able to t

Who We Are Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together . We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work is faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion. Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human. Our goal isn’t to ship the next feature. Each and every team of Notinos is working to set the standard for how humans work together in the AI era. From building a business’s system of record to making and managing AI agents to automating away the busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more time for their life’s work. About The Role We’re looking for an experienced Localization Project Manager — Japan Training Quality to support localization for Customer Education, helping ensure Notion training content feels accurate, clear, culturally relevant, and ready to use for learners across the globe. You’ll work at the intersection of localization quality, training implementation, and program management , collaborating with Localization, Partner Enablement, Customer Education, vendors, and language specialists. You’ll help turn translation feedback, learner experience issues, and regional quality needs into practical improvements across training content, quizzes, LMS setup, and repeatable localization workflows. The ideal candidate combines native-level Japanese language expertise with a deep understanding of what effective education looks like in the Japanese market. What You'll Achieve Own and apply Japanese localization QA standards across training content, including checking for accuracy, clarity, tone, terminology, and cultural nuance Support development of glossaries, style guides, QA checklists, review processes, and localization assets Become a g

Role Description You will act as the primary regional business partner for sales executives, supporting sales planning, territory and quota execution, forecast interpretation, operational improvements, and translation of strategic priorities into clear execution plans. You’ll drive process clarity, pipeline health, forecasting hygiene, and cross-functional governance, using AI and automation-enabled workflows to reduce manual reporting effort while maintaining strong human judgment over business recommendations. Drive operational excellence in account segmentation, territory planning, quota planning and execution, building the frameworks and analyses that guide how we assign and manage books of business . Act as the strategic business partner to Sales leadership, helping shape regional go-to-market strategy and execution across two distinct sales organizations. Drive operational excellence by improving forecasting, pipeline health, sales planning, and execution while balancing the unique commercial priorities, growth opportunities, and operating models of each region. As a member of the APJ Leadership Team, help define and execute the regional GTM strategy, driving operational excellence and sustainable growth across the APJ region. Drive forecasting accuracy, pipeline health, and business performance through executive-ready insights, standardized operating rhythms, and continuous improvement of data quality and reporting. Own and continuously improve the Run-the-Business (RTB) operating cadence - including forecast reviews, pipeline inspections, business reviews, and executive reporting - to improve operational rigor and decision-making. Lead cross-functional initiatives with teams, including Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance, Legal, HR and Product to drive alignment and support decision-making. Communicate complex business insights and recommendations to executive stakeholders through concise, data-driven presentations and business reviews. Responsibilities Ow

Who We Are Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together . We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work is faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion. Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human. Our goal isn’t to ship the next feature. Each and every team of Notinos is working to set the standard for how humans work together in the AI era. From building a business’s system of record to making and managing AI agents to automating away the busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more time for their life’s work. About The Role: The Solutions Consultant Manager is the person who makes our GTM motion real on the ground. As an in-region leader directly managing a team of Solutions Consultants, you'll own your team's full commercial output—new logo, expansion, and renewals—and be accountable for both the results and the quality of execution that produces them. This isn't a traditional pipeline-management role. The best SC Managers are coaches first: they know what a great first meeting looks like, can watch a live build and tell a rep exactly what to change, and build the operating rhythm and inspection cadence that makes consistent execution possible across the team. If you're a builder who loves developing people as much as winning deals—and you want to lead a regional team in a go-to-market model that's genuinely new—this is the role. What You'll Achieve: Own the commercial performance of your team across new logo ARR, expansion ARR, and UBP outcomes—accountable for both the headline numbers and the quality of execution that drives them Coach SCs on the GTM builder motion: what great looks like in a first meeting (workflow diagnosis, current