Senior Recruiter

DocuSign

DocuSign

People & HR
Japan · Tokyo, Japan · Remote
Posted on Oct 3, 2025

Senior Recruiter

ID 2025-27824
Location
JP-Tokyo-Remote
Category
People & Workplace Experience
Position Type
Regular

Company Overview

Docusign brings agreements to life. Over 1.5 million customers and more than a billion people in over 180 countries use Docusign solutions to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives. With intelligent agreement management, Docusign unleashes business-critical data that is trapped inside of documents. Until now, these were disconnected from business systems of record, costing businesses time, money, and opportunity. Using Docusign’s Intelligent Agreement Management platform, companies can create, commit, and manage agreements with solutions created by the #1 company in e-signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM).

What you'll do

As a Senior Recruiter based in Tokyo, your primary focus will be on driving recruitment efforts for the region, sourcing and attracting top-tier diverse talent. Leveraging your deep understanding of the local talent market, industry trends, and competitive landscape, you will develop and execute tailored recruitment strategies to support our dynamic growth in the Japan market. You will be responsible for hiring across all of our business units in Japan from Sales & Customer Success through to Professional Services, Marketing & Operations, filling both immediate vacancies and also building a robust talent pipeline to meet future needs.

This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Director, Talent Acquisition, APJ.

Responsibility

  • Develop and implement comprehensive recruitment strategies that align with our business goals and attract a diverse range of top-tier talent

  • Collaborate and partner with our Hiring Managers & key stakeholders to understand the specific needs and requirements for roles across a number of business units

  • Utilise a variety of sourcing methods to attract a diverse pool of candidates, including job boards, social media, networking, and employee referrals

  • Engage proactively with passive candidates through targeted outreach and networking events

  • Ensure a positive candidate experience throughout the recruitment process by providing timely feedback and maintaining clear communication

  • Develop and implement engagement strategies to keep candidates informed and engaged from initial contact through to onboarding

  • Conduct thorough market trend analysis through LinkedIn Insights and other tools to stay informed about the latest developments in the tech industry and the local job market

  • Track and report on key recruitment metrics, including time-to-fill, pass through rates and offer acceptance rates

  • Analyse data to identify trends and areas for improvement in the recruitment process

  • Cultivate strong partnerships with hiring managers and key stakeholders, providing strategic guidance on talent acquisition and workforce planning

  • Collaborate with the wider HR team to enhance recruitment processes, ensuring efficiency, consistency, and a positive candidate experience

Job Designation

Remote: Employee is not required to be in or near an office frequently and works from a designated remote work location for the majority of the time.

Positions at Docusign are assigned a job designation of either In Office, Hybrid or Remote and are specific to the role/job. Preferred job designations are not guaranteed when changing positions within Docusign. Docusign reserves the right to change a position's job designation depending on business needs and as permitted by local law.

What you bring

Basic

  • BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience
  • Fluent in Japanese and business- level in English
  • 6+ years of agency and/or in-house recruitment experience in the Japan market
  • 3+ years of Sales recruiting experience within a software organisation
  • Proficiency in using Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and other recruitment software
  • Proven ability to analyse market trends and data to develop informed recruitment strategies using LinkedIn Insights, Visier or other data analytics tools
  • Experience hiring for Sales roles across all levels - from entry level through to senior leadership roles
  • Familiarity with advanced sourcing techniques, including Boolean search and other search methodologies
  • Skilled in conducting various types of interviews (structured, competency-based, technical, etc.)
  • Proven success in hiring high volume roles (8+ roles per quarter)


Preferred

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively engage with candidates and stakeholders
  • Strong interpersonal communication skills
  • Experience influencing, educating and advising senior level stakeholders
  • Excellent attention to detail while operating with a sense of urgency
  • Penchant towards metrics data informed conversations
  • Experience in hiring technical operational roles across all levels

Life at DocuSign

Working here

Docusign is committed to building trust and making the world more agreeable for our employees, customers and the communities in which we live and work. You can count on us to listen, be honest, and try our best to do what’s right, every day. At Docusign, everything is equal.

We each have a responsibility to ensure every team member has an equal opportunity to succeed, to be heard, to exchange ideas openly, to build lasting relationships, and to do the work of their life. Best of all, you will be able to feel deep pride in the work you do, because your contribution helps us make the world better than we found it. And for that, you’ll be loved by us, our customers, and the world in which we live.

Accommodation

Docusign is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need such an accommodation, or a religious accommodation, during the application process, please contact us at accommodations@docusign.com.

If you experience any issues, concerns, or technical difficulties during the application process please get in touch with our Talent organization at taops@docusign.com for assistance.

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