Recruiting Manager

Sierra; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Life insurance and disability benefits

Retirement plan

Parental leave

Fertility and family building benefits

Lunch and snacks

Discretionary benefit stipend

Equity plans

Job summary

Sierra is building a platform to help businesses create human experiences with AI. We are an in-person company based in San Francisco with growing offices in Atlanta, New York, London, Paris, and more. We’re seeking a senior head of recruiting for Japan to scale hiring across tech and business teams, partnering with executives, shaping strategy, and building a world-class team.

Join us to drive talent strategy, improve candidate experience, and influence global growth.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of recruiting experience, including leading teams in Japan.
• Experience hiring across technical and business functions within high-growth technology companies.
• Deep understanding of the Japan talent market and engineering/enterprise sales teams.
• Strong people leadership with a track record coaching recruiters.
• Experience partnering with executives and senior hiring managers on growth strategies.
• Excellent judgment, prioritization, and problem-solving in fast-changing environments.
• Fluent Japanese and strong written and verbal English communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead recruiting across Japan for engineering, product, sales, G&A, and leadership roles.
• Build and develop a high-performing recruiting team with a culture of excellence.
• Translate business priorities into scalable hiring strategies and market plans.
• Advise on Japan talent market, compensation trends, and organizational design.
• Develop innovative sourcing strategies to attract top talent.
• Personally recruit and close senior and business-critical hires when needed.
• Improve recruiting operations, interview quality, and candidate experience.
• Partner with People, Compensation, Immigration, and Recruiting Ops to support growth.
• Use data and market insights to inform hiring priorities and capacity planning.

Skills

Recruiting leadership

Japan hiring

Technical & business hiring

Japan talent market

People leadership

Executive partnership

Judgment & prioritization

Candidate experience

Job description

About us

At Sierra, we’re creating a platform to help businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices in Atlanta, New York, London, Paris, Madrid, Munich, Singapore, Tokyo, and Sydney.

We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and Family. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do.

Our co-founders are Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace.

What You’ll Do

• Lead recruiting across Japan, supporting both technical and non-technical hiring, including Engineering, Product Management, Sales, G&A, and leadership roles.

• Build and develop a high-performing recruiting team while fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• Partner closely with senior leaders to translate business priorities into scalable hiring strategies and market plans.

• Serve as a trusted advisor on the Japan talent market, providing insights on the competitive landscape, compensation trends, hiring strategies, and organizational design.

• Develop innovative sourcing strategies to attract exceptional talent.

• Personally recruit and close senior and business-critical hires when needed.

• Continuously improve recruiting operations, interview quality, and candidate experience while ensuring hiring decisions remain thoughtful, efficient, and consistent.

• Partner cross-functionally with People, Compensation, Immigration, and Recruiting Operations to support the continued growth of our Japan business.

• Use recruiting data and market insights to influence hiring priorities, capacity planning, and long-term workforce strategy.

What you’ll bring

• 10+ years of recruiting experience, including experience leading recruiting teams in Japan.

• Experience hiring across both technical and business functions within high-growth technology companies.

• Deep understanding of the Japan talent market, including experience building engineering and enterprise sales organizations.

• Strong people leadership skills with a track record of coaching and developing recruiters.

• Experience partnering directly with executives and senior hiring managers on organizational growth and talent strategy.

• Excellent judgment, prioritization, and problem-solving skills in fast-changing environments.

• Passion for delivering an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience.

• Native fluency in Japanese and strong written and verbal English communication, with the ability to influence and build trust across global and local stakeholders.

Our values

• Trust: We build trust with our customers with our accountability, empathy, quality, and responsiveness. We build trust in AI by making it more accessible, safe, and useful. We build trust with each other by showing up for each other professionally and personally, creating an environment that enables all of us to do our best work.

• Customer Obsession: We deeply understand our customers’ business goals and relentlessly focus on driving outcomes, not just technical milestones. Everyone at the company knows and spends time with our customers. When our customer is having an issue, we drop everything and fix it.

• Craftsmanship: We get the details right, from the words on the page to the system architecture. We have good taste. When we notice something isn’t right, we take the time to fix it. We are proud of the products we produce. We continuously self-reflect to continuously self-improve.

• Intensity: We know we don’t have the luxury of patience. We play to win. We care about our product being the best, and when it isn’t, we fix it. When we fail, we talk about it openly and without blame so we succeed the next time.

• Family: We know that balance and intensity are compatible, and we model it in our actions and processes. We are the best technology company for parents. We support and respect each other and celebrate each other’s personal and professional achievements.

What we offer

We want our benefits to reflect our values and offer the following to full-time employees:

• Flexible (unlimited) paid time off

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family

• Life insurance and disability benefits

• Retirement plan dependent on country of employment

• Parental leave

• Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot

• Lunch, as well as delicious snacks and coffee to keep you energized

• Discretionary benefit stipend giving people the ability to spend where it matters most

• Free alphorn lessons

These benefits are further detailed in Sierra's policies, may vary by region, and are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefits plans. Eligible full-time employees can participate in Sierra's equity plans subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies.

Be you, with us

We're working to bring the transformative power of AI to every organization in the world. To do so, it is important to us that the diversity of our employees represents the diversity of our customers. We believe that our work and culture are better when we encourage, support, and respect different skills and experiences represented within our team. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. We strive to evaluate all applicants consistently without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.