Contract Talent Sourcer and Recruiter

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Tokyo, JPN
In-Office
Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Natural Language Processing • Software • Generative AI
The Role

Who are we?

Our mission is to scale intelligence to serve humanity. We’re training and deploying frontier models for developers and enterprises who are building AI systems to power magical experiences like content generation, semantic search, RAG, and agents. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI.

We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. We like to work hard and move fast to do what’s best for our customers.

Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are passionate about their craft. Each person is one of the best in the world at what they do. We believe that a diverse range of perspectives is a requirement for building great products.

Join us on our mission and shape the future!

As our Talent Team grows we are looking for a senior level, high performing, courageous and creative talent partner eager to take on a new 3-6 month contract based challenge in Japan.

In this role, you will directly source for talent in Japan across all areas of our business with a focus on Sales Leadership and Senior Level Engineering.

You will build on a first-class candidate experience, and influence the scaling of a high-growth AI start up with some of the greatest minds in the industry.

If you consider yourself resilient, collaborative, influential, and a lifelong learner, we’d love to hear from you!


In this contract role, you will:

  • Build, own, and nurture a strong pipeline of world-class Sales Leadership and Engineering talent by utilizing a range of sourcing techniques and creative sourcing strategies.

  • Support hiring across all levels and functions in the business

  • Manage the candidate experience from cold outreach to full cycle and develop strong relationships with candidates.

  • Partner with talent partners and hiring managers/interview teams, developing effective direct sourcing strategies to achieve hiring goals.

  • Keep up-to-date with the talent market and industry insights in an effort to foster informed decision making.

  • Initiate and take ownership of exciting talent projects.

This may be a good contract opporutnity :

  • MUST HAVE: Minimum of 10 years of experience directly sourcing candidates at Director and VP levels across Sales and Engineering for enterprise focussed technology organizations

  • Strong experience initiating and managing creative talent sourcing strategies.

  • Superior written and verbal communication skills.

  • Courage, resilience and an ability to work effectively in a dynamic change oriented environment. 

  • A track record of taking ownership; directly sourcing top of funnel candidates across multiple business areas both tech and non-tech.

  • A natural curiosity for the AI industry, specifically around cutting edge research within the NLP space.

  • Strong working knowledge of Ashby is a major bonus!

If some of the above doesn’t line up perfectly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply! If you want to work really hard on a glorious mission with teammates that want the same thing, Cohere is the place for you.

We value and celebrate diversity and strive to create an inclusive work environment for all. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities. Should you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please submit an Accommodations Request Form, and we will work together to meet your needs.

Full-Time Employees at Cohere enjoy these Perks:

🤝 An open and inclusive culture and work environment 

🧑‍💻 Work closely with a team on the cutting edge of AI research 

🍽 Weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches & snacks

🦷 Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health 

🐣 100% Parental Leave top-up for 6 months for employees based in Canada, the US, and the UK

🎨 Personal enrichment benefits towards arts and culture, fitness and well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement

🏙 Remote-flexible, offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco and London and co-working stipend

✈️ 6 weeks of vacation

Note: This post is co-authored by both Cohere humans and Cohere technology.

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HQ: Toronto, Ontario
224 Employees
Year Founded: 2019

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Cohere provides unprecedented access to affordable, easy-to-deploy large language models. Our platform gives computers the ability to read and write - whether you want to better understand what your customers are saying, or you want to write compelling copy that speaks to your target audience, Cohere can help.

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