Would you like to be part of an international team?
Do you want an opportunity to create change at a leading technology organization?
Join our HR Business Partner community
Our Human Resources team is an integral part of the Japan business operations. We enable strategic business initiatives and work closely with leadership to align our people solutions to shared strategic initiatives. We work on organizational development and change management all aligned to both Corporate and Regional initiatives.
Partner with the best
As a Human Resources Business Partner you will help us to enable those strategic business initiatives. This a time of change. You will be part of a team that is shaping organizational development and change management initiatives as we continue to build Akamai as a global leading organization.
As a Human Resources Business Partner, you will be responsible for:
- Identifying, supporting, and providing change management and OD efforts and consulting with relevant HR leaders as appropriate.
- Evolving and embedding talent strategies to enable diversity, inclusion and engagement
- Working with supporting COEs and peers, delivering and supporting outcomes of regular metrics including Quarterly people metrics.
- Collaborating with COE organizations and peer HRBPs to gather information, and ensure business compliance with HR programs.
- Assisting in the development, design and execution of corporate HR programs and projects.
- Managing the employee life cycle; identifying trends, process gaps, support, capabilities, and efficiencies and address resolutions
- Performing Data Analysis for the Japan business as we track and report on our initiatives
- Management of ER related matters in line with the laws according to Japan
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have between 5-10 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent
- Have experience and ability delivering in a global, high-growth, changing environment in high technology
- Have leadership presence and communications skills, and ability to influence at the senior leadership level
- Have success working in a collaborative, matrixed environment, and track record of accomplishments with measurable business impact
- Have ability to address difficult issues and make tough decisions
- Have experience managing change, shaping culture, influencing leadership, developing talent, managing risk and ensuring compliance
- Have experience supporting Functional programs as applicable and appropriate.
- Ideally have experience working in the technology sector
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
FlexBase adapts to your job's needs
Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
Skills Required
- 5–10 years of relevant human resources experience
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- Experience delivering in a global, high-growth, changing environment
- Leadership presence and strong communication skills
- Ability to influence senior leadership
- Experience working in a collaborative, matrixed environment
- Track record of measurable business impact
- Ability to address difficult issues and make tough decisions
- Experience managing change, shaping culture, influencing leadership, developing talent, managing risk, and ensuring compliance
- Experience supporting functional HR programs
- Experience working in the technology sector
Akamai Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Akamai Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Akamai Technologies.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO in the U.S., wellness days, paid volunteering time, and the FlexBase model contribute to broad time‑off flexibility. These practices are described as supporting strong work‑life balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leaves, paid family care leave, subsidized backup childcare, and inclusive family‑building benefits via Carrot form a comprehensive family support suite. Coverage spans fertility support through caregiving resources.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a substantial company match and immediate vesting, plus Roth and Mega Backdoor Roth options, underpin long‑term savings. These features provide reliable long‑term savings opportunities.
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What We Do
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every moment, billions of people, all over the world, are using the internet to shop, play games, look after finances, learn remotely, share videos, connect across the world, and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission, and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges, and turning the impossible into the possible. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Do you want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!
Why Work With Us
Our people are devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence, and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse, and we love to collaborate across the world.
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