[Hiring] HR Manager @天地人

Role Description

You will own the people engine of the Global South project: recruiting a distributed, all-contractor team across borders, managing individual contractor agreements and compliance in multiple jurisdictions, and running onboarding that gets specialists productive fast. Operating between Tenchijin's Tokyo headquarters and a global contractor base, bilingual fluency in Japanese and English is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in HR/talent acquisition, including direct experience recruiting technical roles (engineering, cloud, data science) internationally.
• Proven experience managing international contractor agreements and cross-border engagement compliance.
• Bilingual fluency in Japanese and English (business-level or above in both) — strictly required.
• Experience with cross-cultural recruiting and distributed/remote team onboarding.
• Strong command of recruiting metrics and data-driven pipeline management.
• High integrity handling confidential personal and contractual data.

Requirements

• Own full-lifecycle recruitment for all project positions: sourcing strategy, screening, interview coordination with technical leads, offer negotiation, and closing.
• Draft, negotiate, and administer individual contractor agreements; manage renewals, amendments, and terminations across the 18-month project timeline.
• Ensure contractor-engagement compliance across jurisdictions: classification, tax/withholding considerations, IP assignment, confidentiality, and data-protection clauses — coordinating with legal counsel and (where used) EOR/contractor-management platforms.
• Design and run global onboarding workflows: contracts, access provisioning coordination, project orientation, and cultural/communication norms for a distributed English-language team.
• Track recruiting metrics (pipeline velocity, source effectiveness, offer-acceptance, time-to-fill) and report hiring status to project leadership in both Japanese and English.
• Serve as the bridge between Japanese-speaking corporate stakeholders (HQ management, legal, finance) and the English-speaking global contractor team.
• Manage contractor relations: performance-feedback processes, dispute resolution, engagement pulse checks, and offboarding with proper knowledge transfer.
• Maintain accurate contractor records and documentation supporting audits and project governance.

Benefits

• A central role in applying satellite data and AI to real infrastructure challenges, with measurable social and environmental impact in Global South markets.
• Fully remote, cross-border collaboration with senior specialists across cloud, GeoAI, product, and design.
• Competitive contractor compensation commensurate with experience and scope.
• Direct exposure to earth-observation technology, including data ecosystems built with Japan's space agency (JAXA).