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
- Anthropic is seeking a results-driven Go-To-Market Recruiter to help establish and scale our teams across Sales, Post-Sales, Partnerships, Applied AI, and Revenue Operations functions in the APAC region. Based in Tokyo, you'll be instrumental in our expansion across Japan and Korea—serving as a founding recruiting hire in the region while building exceptional teams from the ground up. This role requires someone who can bridge cultural gaps, maintain Anthropic's high standards, and work collaboratively with our regional leadership to establish our local presence. The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguous, fast-paced environments and excels at building relationships across diverse cultural and business contexts.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive full-cycle recruiting for multiple GTM teams while establishing recruiting infrastructure and processes in APAC
- Develop culturally-informed sourcing strategies to attract top talent across Japan and Korea, with potential expansion to broader APAC markets
- Partner with regional leaders and HQ to provide consultative guidance on talent acquisition strategy while adapting global practices for local markets
- Leverage AI tools, including Claude, to innovate recruiting processes and drive efficiency across time zones
- Provide market intelligence on compensation trends, talent availability, and cultural considerations while coaching hiring managers on regional best practices
- Serve as a cultural ambassador, ensuring candidates understand Anthropic's mission while advocating for regional talent needs with global leadership
- Build foundational recruiting processes, systems, and partnerships with local agencies, universities, and professional networks
You may be a good fit if you
- Have 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience in high-growth GTM functions in Asia-Pacific markets
- Excel at building processes from scratch while managing multiple concurrent searches in ambiguous environments
- Are passionate about leveraging technology and AI to transform recruiting processes
- Demonstrate cultural sensitivity and ability to navigate complex stakeholder relationships across regions and time zones
- Have experience with data-driven recruiting and metrics-based performance tracking in international contexts
- Show exceptional communication skills in English with ability to work effectively across cultural contexts
- Are fluent in Japanese and/or Korean (native or business-level proficiency strongly preferred)
- Understand nuances of hiring practices, employment law, and professional norms in Japan and Korea
- Have experience working with distributed teams across significant time zone differences
Strong candidates may also
- Have experience recruiting for AI or deep technology companies in Asian markets
- Demonstrate success in establishing recruiting functions during international expansion
- Show expertise in building company culture and employer brand in new markets
- Have established networks within Japan and Korea's technology ecosystem
How we're different
- We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.
- The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
