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Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.
At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.
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The Lead Recruiter Opportunity
This role will be responsible, along with your peers, for building and growing the site location for Okta in Japan! The right candidate will be the ground floor owner and builder of both the Recruiting team and business across all functions. Reporting back to the local site leader, this person will have vast ownership and say in how Okta positions itself in the market for tech talent among other verticals and for creating a world-class internal culture that the best of the best want to be a part of. In this unique, first-of-its-kind role, you will be expected to balance work across global geographies while acting as the market expert and owner of our newest growth center. Join us!
What you’ll be doing
- Hire for Japan business needs in and around the Tokyo area
- Align key talent initiatives and resources with Okta's core business objectives
- Organizational design: building an effective organization designed to deliver at scale in a hyper-growth company
- Strategic Account Management - partner with key product unit leaders and managers to ensure hiring the right talent at the right time.
- Partnership & Influence - Work closely with Finance & HR leaders to deliver short & long-term talent solutions that drive growth & efficiency
- Operational Excellence – drive efficiencies that scale; metrics, processes, technology
- Build and align operating rhythms that ensure the team hits established KPIs
- Seen as a Brand Ambassador and steward of talent for Okta
What you’ll bring to the role
- 6-8 years in a technical recruiting role with experience recruiting across Engineering, Product, and IT profiles in the Japanese market
- Demonstrated experience building and driving internal and external talent branding (referral drives, tech talks, webinars, LinkedIn campaigns, blog posts, hiring events, etc) is required
- Experienced in Diversity hiring and other programs that help to attract top talent
- Demonstrated building growing business teams in the Japanese geographical market
- Direct partnership with internal business leadership up to VP and partners (HR, Finance, Ops, compensation, benefits teams) building strategy and hiring execution plans
- Direct experience working across global locations and time zones and influencing without ownership in a dotted-line organizational structure
- Direct experience building and sharing retroactive and forward-looking analytics with internal stakeholders on the talent market and internal success metrics in Recruiting (hires, run rates, acceptance rates, talent availability, and more)
- Demonstrated ability to balance short & long; you understand the need to meet short-term goals while planning for future growth and scale
And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following!
- Direct ownership, having built and scaled a business center of excellence site in the India market from the ground up
- Program/Project management experience within the talent acquisition space
- Employee relations or HRBP experience
- Intellectually Curious, you never stop looking for ways to make the business, yourself, or your team better at what we do, hire great talent
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What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!
- Amazing Benefits
- Making Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta
Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.
Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding.
Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.
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What We Do
Okta is the leading independent identity provider. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With more than 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta provides simple and secure access to people and organizations everywhere, giving them the confidence to reach their full potential. More than 10,000 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Siemens, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.
