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People Business Partner

Applied Intuition· Business Functions
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TokyoFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior People Business Partner to be the senior People leader for APAC, supporting employees across Japan, Korea, Australia, and other emerging geographies. Lead regional People agenda, partner with country leaders and HQ, and drive end-to-end People programs across the employee lifecycle.

Responsibilities

  • Be the business strategist for APAC. Understand where the regional business is going and bring leaders a clear point of view, with tradeoffs laid out. Translate business goals into talent decisions (org design, workforce planning, leveling, succession), and use data to spot attrition risk and capability gaps before the business feels them.
  • Lead end-to-end People programs across the employee lifecycle. Own onboarding through exit, including payroll and benefits coordination, leave, compensation, performance, engagement, and employee relations, within local requirements. Direct HQ People Operations, Payroll, Legal, Total Rewards, and local advisors and vendors: set priorities by risk, impact, and reversibility, assign owners, and drive each issue to resolution. Where infrastructure doesn’t exist, build a working version yourself, then add self-service resources, manager guides, and clear escalation paths.
  • Connect Sunnyvale and APAC. Bring regional perspectives into global decisions early and make global programs work locally. Know what must stay consistent worldwide and what should flex by country, and bring HQ recommendations with tradeoffs, not just concerns.
  • Lead the region through growth and change. Support expansion into new countries and entities, reorganizations, and leadership transitions with a clear plan, narrative, and follow-through.
  • Increase talent density. Lead calibration, promotion, and talent review. Develop top talent, coach managers to raise the bar, and handle performance and employee relations issues with judgment, discretion, and dignity. Move fast and move safe.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of HR experience, including 3+ years partnering directly with senior leaders (preferably in high-tech) and experience as the sole or lead People leader for a country or region.
  • Breadth across the full HR function: employee relations, compensation, payroll and leave administration, performance management, org design, and engagement. You move comfortably from an individual pay issue to a reorganization conversation with an executive on the same day.
  • Working knowledge of employment practices in Japan and Korea, and the judgment to know when to bring in local counsel.
  • Strong business acumen and data fluency. You understand how the business makes money and where the constraints are, and you communicate clearly and directly with executives.
  • High agency and strong judgment. You’ve led a region or business with minimal direction, directed partners without formal authority, and decided with incomplete information. You know when to move fast, when to slow down an irreversible decision, and how to prioritize ruthlessly.
  • A record of influencing in both directions: advocating for a region with HQ and challenging regional leaders, while telling a legal requirement from a business need or a preference.
  • A record of leading change, including implementing global programs locally and guiding teams through growth or reorganization.
  • Business-level fluency in Japanese or Korean (a plus), and comfort working across time zones with a California-based team.

Skills

Required:HR leadership at regional levelFull HR function coverageJapan and Korea employment practicesData fluency
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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