Manager, APAC Recruiting

EngineersOfAI; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Manager, APAC Recruiting to lead all hiring across the Asia Pacific region. This senior role requires exceptional stakeholder partnership, operational rigor, and the ability to connect a fast-moving regional business with a global recruiting organization.

You will build and lead a team of APAC recruiters, partnering with US counterparts to ensure consistent hiring standards while adapting strategies to local markets.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of recruiting experience
• 4+ years leading recruiting teams
• Experience in APAC or multi-country Asia Pacific environments

Responsibilities

• Build and lead APAC Recruiting operations across key markets (Japan, Korea, Australia, India, Singapore) and beyond
• Manage a team of APAC recruiters and coordinate with global recruiting leads in the US
• Partner with regional leadership to develop localized talent acquisition strategies aligning with business goals
• Navigate regulatory environments across APAC ensuring compliance with employment laws and data privacy rules
• Drive senior-level searches including regional Head of leadership positions and other roles across APAC

Skills

APAC recruiting

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Regulatory compliance

Job description

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

We're looking for a Manager, APAC Recruiting to lead all hiring across the region as Anthropic builds out its presence across Asia Pacific. This is a senior leadership role that requires exceptional stakeholder partnership, operational rigor, and the ability to serve as connective tissue between a fast-moving regional business and a global recruiting org.

You'll partner directly with our Head of International Sales and the APAC-based leadership team. These partnerships require a highly consultative approach: deep fluency in the Asia Pacific talent landscape, the EQ to translate between regional reality and global expectations, and the executive presence to be in the room when headcount decisions get made, not after.

You'll build and lead a team of recruiters across the region, setting the standard for what high-touch, high-judgment recruiting looks like. The impact of this role extends beyond your own team. You'll partner closely with functional recruiting leaders in the US to ensure that candidates are all held to the same bar as their US counterparts, while adapting the motion to markets that work differently.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead APAC Recruiting operations, creating scalable processes and infrastructure across our key markets (Japan, Korea, Australia, India, Singapore) and beyond as the region grows
• Manage a team of APAC-based recruiters responsible for all functions (G&A/Core Functions, GTM, and Tech), while maintaining dotted-line relationships with global recruiting leads in the US
• Partner closely with the Head of International Recruiting and APAC regional/country leads to develop localized talent acquisition strategies that align with business objectives
• Navigate complex and varied regulatory environments across the region, ensuring full compliance with employment laws and country-specific hiring and data privacy regulations in each market (for example APPI in Japan, PIPA in Korea, the Privacy Act in Australia, the DPDP Act in India and the PDPA in Singapore)
• Serve as a cultural ambassador, bridging US headquarters with APAC offices and facilitating cross-cultural collaboration across multiple languages, time zones and business norms
• Drive senior-level searches including regional "Head of" positions and other leadership roles across the APAC region
• Create and implement recruiting strategies that leverage local market insights in Japan, Korea, Australia, India, Singapore and emerging APAC markets, while maintaining global consistency in hiring standards
• Collaborate extensively with cross-functional partners including HR, Legal, Finance, and global recruiting peers across time zones, including the limited overlap between APAC and US working hours
• Establish metrics, dashboards, and reporting systems to measure APAC recruiting effectiveness and provide strategic insights to leadership
• Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within APAC markets while respecting local cultural contexts and legal requirements

You may be a good fit if you

• Have 10+ years of recruiting experience with at least 4+ years leading recruiting teams, preferably in APAC or multi-country Asia Pacific environments
• Have proven experience building recruiting functions from the ground up in new APAC geographic markets
• Demonstrate expertise across all recruiting domains (G&A, GTM, Tech) with the ability to recruit for various functions and levels
• Have a strong understanding of employment law, data privacy, compliance requirements and local hiring norms across key APAC markets, including the differences between markets such as Japan, Korea, Australia, India and Singapore
• Excel at managing and collaborating across time zones with exceptional cross-cultural communication skills relevant to Japanese, Korean, Australian, Indian and Southeast Asian contexts
• Can operate strategically at leadership level while maintaining the ability to execute hands-on recruiting for senior positions
• Show proven track record of being an eff