Japan Executive Search and Structured Outbound RPO
We support US enterprise technology vendors building and scaling in Japan through retained leadership search and disciplined outbound hiring execution.
Led by two decades of in-market experience across search, RPO and recruitment infrastructure.
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Josep Garcia, APAC VP
“Impressive research and a job well done! Thanks for the great work.”
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Matt Young, APAC VP
“We almost exclusively found Murray to be our go-to recruiter. I highly recommend him.”
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Kate Berkeley, APAC Talent Acquisition
“One of the top recruiters VMware has worked with, across the whole of Asia Pacific. Exceptional.”
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Anthony Palladino, CRO
“Thanks for your work. Nice job! I appreciate you running at a very intense pace. ”
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Jon Robertson, APAC VP
“Murray has been a tremendous help in hiring dozens of individual contributors as well as key leaders”
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Gerry Sillars, APAC VP
“If you need someone to assist as you try to enter the Japanese market don’t look any further.”
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Keita Nozaki, Services Director
“Murray can build a strong relationship and he drives things very passionately.”
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Matt Thatcher, Global Sales VP
“His business sense and creativity helped fill a high level executive position in a relatively short period of time.”
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Patrick Cook, Director Innovation
“Murray has done outstanding work for PARC in a difficult talent space”
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Stephen Beck, Services VP
"Murray was invaluable. His advice, cultural guidance, and results were outstanding. I highly recommend him.”
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Goh Hattori, APAC Talent Acquisition
“Instrumental in hiring key people, including Country Manager, and delivering RPO”
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Sung Hae Kim, Global Head of People
Murray built our Japan team, securing very high quality sales & engineering hires.
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Mathew Fleming, CEO & Founder
“Helped us lock in a key leader for Japan. Did an excellent job.”
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Barry Kent, Global Sales VP
“Excellent work to hire a key sales lead for our new all-flash product in Japan.”
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Brian Burns, Founding Partner
“I see Murray as the only recruiter that really understands the markets that he recruits into.“
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James Moore, Global Sales VP
“Very pleased with the outcome. Murray provided extremely helpful cultural guidance throughout.”
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TJ Chandler, APAC VP
“Great job Murray. Thanks so much for this. We are really happy with this key hire!”
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How We Help You Win in Japan
Expansion requires two capabilities: Leadership accuracy. Structured execution.
Executive Search
Leadership First
Retained, top-down search for Japan Country Managers and senior commercial leaders.
These appointments define positioning, channel strategy and early revenue trajectory. We focus on phase-fit leaders aligned to 0–1 entry, 1–10 scale, or reset situations where stability is required.
Outbound RPO
Structured Market Execution
Direct sourcing delivered through controlled narrative and defined hiring sequence.
Our outbound RPO model supports multi-hire expansion across sales, pre-sales, partner and GTM roles without prematurely expanding internal headcount. Built for consistency, not volume.
High-Impact Search
Critical Hires That Move the Business
Targeted search for player-coach leaders and early commercial operators whose impact outweighs title.
Enterprise sales leaders, strategic partner heads, senior solutions engineers and foundational GTM hires. Precision mandates requiring judgement and access.
Led By Experience. Built With Intent.
Search Meets SaaS
We came together from two sides of the recruitment coin: one from executive search, the other from SaaS. What unites us is a belief that technology will shape the future of recruitment — not just to deliver short-term results, but to build lasting success for organisations seeking high-skill talent.
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Executive Search | Japan | Technology
Murray Clarke has spent his career building and scaling executive search businesses in Japan. A consistent theme across that journey is simple: every agency he has helped build or lead has seen a successful acquisition, including the firm he founded.
He began his search career as an early hire at a specialist firm, joining as the second employee and helping establish foundations that later supported growth to more than 200 staff. After a period working inside VMware Japan as an outbound recruiter, he became a senior leader at RGF Executive (Recruit Holdings), where he was recognised during the company’s transition to new ownership.
In 2014, Murray founded Technology Futures K.K., building it from inception into a respected executive search and outbound RPO business that was later acquired by ManpowerGroup Japan.
After several years in New Zealand developing the TalentHub platform, Murray returned to Japan in 2025 to launch TalentHub Partners K.K., bringing together executive search, outbound RPO, and platform innovation.
He holds a BA and BCom from the University of Otago and undertook further study at the University of Tokyo.
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Recruitment | SaaS | AI
Konstantin is a full-stack recruitment technology expert with more than 15 years of experience building software platforms across industries. He co-founded Interviewy, an AI-powered interview automation platform used by major US hospitality brands such as Five Guys, Halal Guys, Blaze Pizza, and Cinnabon, helping them streamline high-volume hiring and cut time-to-hire dramatically.
Earlier in his career he co-founded Mirabo Systems International, where he led development of Livepoint, a business intelligence tool for the pharmaceutical sector. He also held senior roles at IBM Global Services, Deloitte Consulting, and BearingPoint.
At TalentHub, Konstantin leads product strategy and development. He is designing an AI-powered recruitment platform to reduce administrative work, enhance candidate and client experience, and equip recruiters with the tools they need to compete in today’s market.
Contact Us
If you are expanding or rebuilding in Japan and require executive search or structured outbound RPO support, we are happy to discuss your mandate.
We work with US enterprise technology vendors across market entry, scale and leadership transition.
If you are an experienced independent recruiter exploring partnership within a structured platform, we are open to confidential conversations.
Murray Clarke
Founder, TalentHub Partners