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We are looking to hire an experienced full-life cycle Recruiter to support the organization through its growth in Japan. You'll be a driving force in building and executing the talent strategy, partnering with key stakeholders, and hiring top talent. This role will allow you to build positive relationships, exude our values, and contribute to our org-wide recruiting best practices and processes.

This is a full time role in our Tokyo office, within a hybrid environment.

What you'll do at Figma:

• Manage full-cycle recruiting processes for our business organizations, in particular, go to market functions like sales and marketing

• Partner with leaders to develop top of funnel strategies for key roles

• Source and build healthy, representative pipelines to engage passive talent including cold outreach and events, while also effectively handling inbound applications and referrals

• Leverage data to inform your hiring strategy and articulate these insights to executives in order to influence and drive positive change

• Identify, conceptualize, and drive business improvement initiatives

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• 6+ years of full-cycle in house recruiting experience in a high growth business

• Experience partnering with senior executives on high volume searches in go to market organizations

• Expert knowledge of the SaaS / scaling tech landscape, particularly in the local market

• Advanced sourcing and passive engagement skills

• Ability to build a talent strategy alongside your hiring managers, while delivering an exceptional candidate experience

• Native-level Japanese and full English fluency

While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:

• Experience hiring in other countries across APAC

• Korean language proficiency

At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status**,**or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.

Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:

• Holding interviews in an accessible location

• Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing

• Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers

• Changing the mode or format of interviews

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.

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