AI-First Executive Search for Japan
We help global technology companies find and hire the leaders who win Japan — powered by an AI platform that surfaces better candidates, faster.
What Clients Say
Direct endorsements from APAC VPs, CROs, and Talent Leaders who have partnered with Murray Clarke to scale their Japan operations.
One of the top recruiters VMware has worked with, not only in Japan, but across the whole of Asia Pacific. He is exceptional.
We almost exclusively found Murray to be our go-to recruiter. I highly recommend him.
Instrumental in hiring key people, including Country Manager, and delivering RPO.
One of the top recruiters VMware has worked with, not only in Japan, but across the whole of Asia Pacific. He is exceptional.
An Extension of Your TA Organization.
We don't just fill seats; we partner as a strategic extension of your global talent function to build and scale your leadership engine in Japan.
Leadership & Embedded Scale
We place the senior leaders who drive market growth, then we stay embedded. By supporting our leaders to hire the teams they need, we ensure your Japan entry has the talent density required for long-term execution and success.
Brand & Agent Governance
Maintain absolute control over your market narrative. Our trackable Pitch Pages give your TA team full visibility into agent performance, ensuring every external recruiter is delivering a consistent, high-impact story to the market.
Referable: Strategic Mapping
We turn referrals into a systematic talent channel. By proactively mapping the networks of your existing team, we identify high-performers with proven cultural fit, allowing you to hire through trusted connections before utilizing other channels.
Enterprise Pedigree. Boutique Accountability.
Our methodology is built on 15 years of delivering for the world’s most demanding enterprise technology brands, including Workday, Splunk, and Lenovo as they launched, scaled and led in Japan, respectively.
We operate as a high-performance hub, coordinating an ecosystem of regional partners to ensure consistent quality. This allows your global TA leadership to manage one high-accountability relationship that can handle everything from niche executive search to high-volume RPO delivery.
The Partner Ecosystem
With partner relationships across the Japan RPO sector, we act as your local quality gate, providing the infrastructure and oversight needed to scale in Japan without the risk of brand dilution:
- Hands on 30-45-day project setup to establish benchmarks and ensure SLA's are on track.
- Centralized program management for all recruiters and subconractors agency partners.
- Unified branding through AI-powered tech.
- Fractional or full-scale delivery models.
How We Use AI
Our AI infrastructure supports your entire Japan journey—from initial market entry consideration and strategy through to identifying and scaling your long-term local organization.
Market Intelligence
Value-added entry support. We provide deep-dive research on Japan-specific competitors, partners, and costs to inform your strategy before the first hire.
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Digital Pitch Pages
Ensure your message hits the market. Our enriched landing pages and integrated AI chatbots provide a high-impact experience for the candidate pool.
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Executive Briefs
Our AI scrapes open-source web data to enrich candidate CVs, providing a 360-degree view into suitability, career highlights, and interview focus areas.
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Referral Mapping
Scale through your new hires. We enable your team to systematically identify high-potential talent and drive referrals across the Japanese market.
Book a Demo →The New Standard for Japan Search
Traditional models often fail in the Japan market due to high costs and lack of specialized infrastructure. We bridge the gap between search expertise and RPO scale.
Traditional Search
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A Continuum of Growth
From founding your office to dominating the sector, we provide the specific talent infrastructure required for each phase of Japan maturity.
Founding the Office — Top-down search for anchor leaders and initial RPO support to establish a beachhead in Japan.
Workday†, Fivetran*, DoiT*, mabl AI, Pure Storage*, GitHub*, Recorded Future*.
Market Capture — High-intensity direct sourcing and program management to scale commercial teams once the foundation is set.
Splunk*†, ZenDesk*, Celonis*, ServiceNow*, Stripe*, Nutanix*, SUSE*, VMware*†, Fastly*.
Sector Leadership — Targeted, transformational hires for established organizations looking to reset, innovate, or accelerate growth.
Dell Technologies*, Nutanix*, VMware*, Lenovo*, Recorded Future*.
* Denotes GTM lead or Country Manager appointment via Executive Search. | † Denotes RPO delivery or project-based team scale-out.
The placements and results highlighted above represent the personal career track record of our founder — Murray Clarke — across TalentHub Partners and his previous Japan-based search firm. As founder and lead of his previous firm, Murray oversaw the strategic execution of all engagements, including his experience leading the VMware RPO during a critical 1–10 growth phase in Japan.
Year 1 As TalentHub Partners
Recent mandates completed — from first hire to scaled teams during our Proof-of-Concept phase.
Fivetran
1st Japan Enterprise Sales Lead to build the Japan business
SUSE
Country Manager to transform the Japan operation
mabl AI
Rebuilt the Japan GTM team
Databricks
Senior Manager, Solution Architects + Solution Architect
DoiT
Country Manager for Japan launch
Recorded Future
Country Manager scaling the Japan business
Fastly
Country Manager to scale the Japan operation
Rapid Growth AI Vendor
Japan Country Manager to scale business
Multiple mandates underway
Country Manager and senior leadership searches in progress
Built by People Who've Done This Before
One built search firms. The other builds platforms. Together, they built something neither could alone.
I Built This Because Search Alone Isn't Enough
I've spent my entire career in Japan executive search — over 20 years, led three search firms, all acquired, including my own.
The traditional model — senior partner sells the work, junior associate does the searching — works for one hire at a time. It doesn't scale and it doesn't give clients the visibility they deserve.
TalentHub Partners is an AI-powered platform that transforms how we recruit in Japan. Every engagement gets dedicated intelligence pages, AI-matched candidates, and real-time reporting.
I lead every engagement personally. When you work with TalentHub, I'm your first call and the person presenting your shortlist.
The Platform Behind the Search
Konstantin is the reason the AI actually works. His background spans IBM Global Services, Deloitte Consulting, and BearingPoint with 15+ years building enterprise software platforms.
The result: candidate matching, market intelligence, competitive analysis, and branded engagement pages — all running on a platform we built from scratch. No off-the-shelf ATS. No third-party AI. Everything purpose-built for executive search in Japan.
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