Our Recruitment Team & Our Values 

Guidepoint’s Recruitment team is an integral part of a company that prides itself on identifying the most qualified person for the job. Our team focuses on maintaining integrity and promoting diversity, highlighting our dedication to creating an environment where every candidate is treated equitably, regardless of their background.   

By utilizing innovative sourcing techniques, attending campus events, and expanding our brand presence, we attract and hire top talent from all over the world. The team consists of 35+ high-performing individuals from various backgrounds who work across 3 continents and 9 countries to make impactful hires for every department at Guidepoint.   

Your Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and strategic Senior Recruiter to manage and drive end-to-end hiring for our Tokyo office. This individual will play a critical role in building our talent pipeline, elevating our employer brand, and ensuring we attract, assess, and hire top-tier talent.

A Day in Your New Role:  

• Own full-cycle recruitment for our Japan hirings across different departments, including sourcing, direct candidate outreach, interviewing, and offer management
• Develop and execute recruitment strategies aligned with business goals
• Build and maintain relationships with hiring managers across multiple departments
• Partner with hiring managers to forecast hiring needs, improve quality of hire, and drive a collaborative, consistent hiring process
• Implement data-driven recruitment practices and track key metrics (time to hire, offer acceptance rate, quality of hire, etc.)
• Collaborate with the Global TA team to standardize processes and share best practices across regions

What You Have: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field 
• 2 to 3+ years of experience in full-cycle recruiting, in-house or agency
• Native fluency in Japanese
• Business level proficiency in English
• Strong project management and communication skills 
• Data-driven mindset: use of metrics (quality of hire, candidate experience, offer acceptance rate) to refine strategies
• Proficiency with ATS platforms (Greenhouse preferred)
• Ability to work cross-functionally and manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment 

What We Offer: 

• Competitive compensation
• Employee medical coverage
• Central office location
• Entrepreneurial environment, autonomy, and fast decisions
• Casual work environment

ABOUT GUIDEPOINT: 

Guidepoint is a leading research enablement platform designed to advance understanding and empower our clients’ decision-making process. Powered by innovative technology, real-time data, and hard-to-source expertise, we help our clients to turn answers into action.

Backed by a network of nearly 1.75 million experts, and Guidepoint’s 1,600 employees worldwide we inform leading organizations’ research by delivering on-demand intelligence and research on request. With Guidepoint, companies and investors can better navigate the abundance of information available today, making it both more useful and more powerful.

At Guidepoint, our success relies on the diversity of our employees, advisors, and client base, which allows us to create connections that offer a wealth of perspectives. We are committed to upholding policies that contribute to an equitable and welcoming environment for our community, regardless of background, identity, or experience.

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Overview:

Guidepoint’s Business Development teams are passionate about expanding our reach with both new and existing clients. We support all Guidepoint’s service offerings, helping to build relationships and communicate how Guidepoint helps clients stay informed and make better business decisions. Our teams are motivated to provide custom offerings designed to help every potential client make the most of their partnership with Guidepoint.

The Tokyo team is looking for a Business Development Associate to further develop our business with major Corporations within the region. The Associate will be responsible for assisting in building a pipeline of prospects across various industries. This is an exciting opportunity for a self-starter who wants to learn more about the Corporate sector and make a significant contribution to our business model.

What You’ll Do:

• Conduct outbound prospecting to qualify new business leads and help source new business opportunities
• Partner with senior sales team members schedule meetings with new prospects, set up meetings with existing strategic accounts to identify growth and cross selling opportunities, and manage client feedback calls.
• Meet designated prospecting and meeting targets through cold calling and other lead generation efforts.
• Assist in the development of marketing materials and client presentations.
• Develop a working knowledge of the primary research methods, the competitor landscape, and the institutional investment industry investment process and investment strategies.

What You Have:

• High level of fluency in Japanese and English.
• Bachelor's degree from a tertiary institution
• Broad base knowledge of the sales process from lead generation to relationship management.
• Excellent communicator capable of handling high-profile clients
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team atmosphere.
• Desire to work in a sales/ lead generation role that is KPI and metrics-driven.
• A desire to work in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment.

What We Offer:

• Hybrid work environment 
• Competitive compensation 
• Entrepreneurial, driven, and ambitious team environment 
• Generous paid annual leave 
• Central office location 

ABOUT GUIDEPOINT:

Guidepoint is a leading research enablement platform designed to advance understanding and empower our clients’ decision-making process. Powered by innovative technology, real-time data, and hard-to-source expertise, we help our clients to turn answers into action.

Backed by a network of nearly 1.75 million experts, and Guidepoint’s 1,600 employees worldwide, we inform leading organizations’ research by delivering on-demand intelligence and research on request. With Guidepoint, companies and investors can better navigate the abundance of information available today, making it both more useful and more powerful.

At Guidepoint, our success relies on the diversity of our employees, advisors, and client base, which allows us to create connections that offer a wealth of perspectives. We are committed to upholding policies that contribute to an equitable and welcoming environment for our community, regardless of background, identity, or experience.

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OVERVIEW: 

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced sales/ business development professional to join Guidepoint Tokyo as an Institutional Sales Manager. 

Reporting to the Head of Sales, the incumbent should have expertise of selling into global and regional financial institutions and consulting businesses in Asia. It is, therefore, vital that you are a passionate individual who wants to make a difference. 

Guidepoint’s Sales teams are passionate about expanding our reach with both new and existing clients. We support all Guidepoint’s service offerings, helping to build relationships and communicate how Guidepoint helps clients stay informed and make better business decisions. Our teams are motivated to provide custom offerings designed to help every potential client make the most of their partnership with Guidepoint. You will have a significant impact on establishing effective client relationships to further develop our business across major clients.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Develop and execute a sales strategy designed to achieve revenue targets as part of the regional and global sales team
• Strategic sales & account management planning from concept to execution across financial institutions in Asia
• Set the targets, vision and strategy to achieve agree-upon targets and performance metrics.
• Build and maintain relationships with prospective clients in Asia across the spectrum of institutional and investment firm clients by proactively seeking out opportunities
• Communication of market developments to marketing and client service team

WHAT YOU HAVE:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• At least 5 years of sales/ business development experience in financial services or similar sectors
• Ability to thrive within a fast-paced environment, entrepreneurial mindset, and an unwavering desire to succeed
• Fluent in Japanese (Native or business level)
• Business level fluency in written and verbal English
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and within teams

What We Have:

• Flexible and/ or remote work arrangement
• Competitive compensation
• Entrepreneurial, driven, and ambitious team environment
• Generous paid annual leave
• Central office location

ABOUT GUIDEPOINT:

Guidepoint is a leading research enablement platform designed to advance understanding and empower our client’s decision-making process. Powered by innovative technology, real-time data, and hard-to-source expertise, we help our clients to turn answers into action.  

Backed by a network of nearly 1.75 million experts and Guidepoint’s 1,600 employees worldwide, we inform leading organizations’ research by delivering on-demand intelligence and research on request. With Guidepoint, companies and investors can better navigate the abundance of information available today, making it both more useful and more powerful.  

At Guidepoint, our success relies on the diversity of our employees, advisors, and client base, which allows us to create connections that offer a wealth of perspectives. We are committed to upholding policies that contribute to an equitable and welcoming environment for our community, regardless of background, identity, or experience.  

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Overview:

The Strategic Research team is the backbone of Guidepoint’s success. The team is responsible for efficiently delivering Guidepoint’s services to our clients around the world. We work to understand each client’s unique business questions and help them gain critical insights to stay informed and make better business decisions.

As an Associate on the Strategic Research team you will focus on making the right connections between our global clients and local Advisors across numerous industries. Your role will focus on researching industries relevant to client project requests and recruiting elite subject matter experts into our network to ensure the right connection is made. After you master these core skills of recruiting and connecting Advisors with clients, you will gain additional exposure to more complex project and client relationship management as you grow your career here and move into Research Manager and Project Manager roles.

What you will own:

• Work in cross-cultural teams with our Project Managers from offices globally in order to deliver the best possible service for our global clients
• Review and analyze client research requests and use a range of resources to domestically identify the most relevant subject matter experts across geographies, industries, and topics for each project
• Utilize the phone, LinkedIn, and outreach to recruit new Advisors in Japan to join the Guidepoint network by effectively communicating why their expertise is a good match for the specific project you’re working on
• Screen experts for their suitability for specific client projects and create professional profiles for client consideration
• Operate with a teamwork mentality that leads to building and maintaining strong relationships with other Guidepoint employees, offices, and Advisors
• Gain expertise on the various industries our clients work in order to make sure Guidepoint always finds the right experts for a given project

Experience you will bring:

• Bachelor’s degree with a strong academic record
• High level fluency in Japanese and English, both written and verbal

Skills you will bring:

• Outgoing personality with the ability to speak with people at all professional levels
• Intellectual curiosity and desire to learn
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Effective time management and organizational skills
• Demonstrated ability to work both individually and as part of a team
• Ability to work in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment

What we offer:

• Hybrid work environment, work from home two days a week 
• 15 PTO Days and 10 sick days
• Development opportunities through the LinkedIn Learning platform
• Free snacks in the office, Happy Drink (twice a month), monthly office birthday celebrations
• Casual work environment, team building, and other social events
• Annual health checkup, partial flu vaccination support
• Dinner support (if applicable)
• Gym membership fee discount (if applicable)
• Central office location in Otemachi near Otemachi and Tokyo stations 

About Guidepoint: 

Guidepoint is a leading research enablement platform designed to advance understanding and empower our clients’ decision-making process. Powered by innovative technology, real-time data, and hard-to-source expertise, we help our clients to turn answers into action. 

Backed by a network of nearly 1.75 million experts and Guidepoint’s 1,600 employees worldwide, we inform leading organizations’ research by delivering on-demand intelligence and research on request. With Guidepoint, companies and investors can better navigate the abundance of information available today, making it both more useful and more powerful. 

At Guidepoint, our success relies on the diversity of our employees, advisors, and client base, which allows us to create connections that offer a wealth of perspectives. We are committed to upholding policies that contribute to an equitable and welcoming environment for our community, regardless of background, identity, or experience. 

OVERVIEW: 

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced sales/ business development professional to join Guidepoint Tokyo as a Senior Sales Manager. 

Reporting to the Head of Sales, the incumbent should have expertise of selling into global and regional financial institutions and consulting businesses in Asia. It is, therefore, vital that you are a passionate individual who wants to make a difference. 

Guidepoint’s Sales teams are passionate about expanding our reach with both new and existing clients. We support all Guidepoint’s service offerings, helping to build relationships and communicate how Guidepoint helps clients stay informed and make better business decisions. Our teams are motivated to provide custom offerings designed to help every potential client make the most of their partnership with Guidepoint. You will have a significant impact on establishing effective client relationships to further develop our business across major clients.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Develop and execute a sales strategy designed to achieve revenue targets as part of the regional and global sales team
• Strategic sales & account management planning from concept to execution across financial institutions in Asia
• Set the targets, vision and strategy to achieve agree-upon targets and performance metrics.
• Build and maintain relationships with prospective clients in Asia across the spectrum of institutional and investment firm clients by proactively seeking out opportunities
• Communication of market developments to marketing and client service team

WHAT YOU HAVE:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Fluent in Japanese (Native or business level)
• Business level fluency in written and verbal English
• At least 8 years of sales/ business development experience in financial services or similar sectors.
• Ability to thrive within a fast-paced environment, entrepreneurial mindset, and an unwavering desire to succeed.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and within teams.

What We Have:

• Flexible and/ or remote work arrangement
• Competitive compensation
• Entrepreneurial, driven, and ambitious team environment
• Generous paid annual leave
• Central office location

ABOUT GUIDEPOINT:

Guidepoint is a leading research enablement platform designed to advance understanding and empower our client’s decision-making process. Powered by innovative technology, real-time data, and hard-to-source expertise, we help our clients to turn answers into action.  

Backed by a network of nearly 1.75 million experts and Guidepoint’s 1,600 employees worldwide, we inform leading organizations’ research by delivering on-demand intelligence and research on request. With Guidepoint, companies and investors can better navigate the abundance of information available today, making it both more useful and more powerful.  

At Guidepoint, our success relies on the diversity of our employees, advisors, and client base, which allows us to create connections that offer a wealth of perspectives. We are committed to upholding policies that contribute to an equitable and welcoming environment for our community, regardless of background, identity, or experience.  

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Overview:

The Client Service team connects Guidepoint’s clients with subject-matter experts to better inform their business decisions. They take the time to understand each client’s specific research needs and deliver the experts closest to the topic, often within hours. 

Interview Process: 

• Meet your Guidepoint Recruiter! 
  • Initial Candidate Screen 
• Meet the Guidepoint Teams! 
  • Hiring Manager Interview 
• Hiring Team Interview 
• Mock Assessment
  • Complete a stimulated client request and gain more insight into the role 
• Mock Review Interview
• Interview Process Outcome 

Who We Are: 

• Team-oriented and collaborative 
• Hard-working professionals who strive for excellence 
• Built-in mentorship to help you drive and improve your project management and customer service skills, to deliver excellent results for clients 
• Hands-on leadership to help you develop your career and provide opportunities for upward mobility within Guidepoint 
• Guidepoint is passionate about your career growth: Check out our Client Service Career Trajectory. 

What you will own: 

•  Work with Project Managers and other team members to develop strategies for satisfying each client project request 
• Operate in a sales environment to identify the best experts to join our network who provide consultant for client projects 
• Utilize LinkedIn, press releases, case studies and the internet to identify the best experts for clients to get their strategic or investment questions answered 
• Screen experts for their suitability for specific client projects and create professional profiles for client consideration  
• Operate with a global teamwork mentality that leads to building and maintaining strong relationships with other Guidepoint employees, offices, and Advisors  

Experience you will bring:

• Bachelor’s degree or above 
• Previous internship, volunteering or extracurriculars

Skills you will bring:

• Desire to work in a sales/ lead generation role that is KPI and metrics-driven 
• Ability to work in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment 
• Excellent time management and organizational skills 
• Outgoing personality with the ability to speak with people at all professional levels 
• Intellectual curiosity and desire to learn 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Japanese and English 
• Demonstrated ability to work both individually and as part of a team 

What We Offer: 

Client Service Associates can earn up to ¥7,180,000 (for strong performance) over a twelve-month period. The compensation package consists of an annual base salary which includes a fixed overtime allowance, and variable compensation linked to individual performance.

• Hybrid work environment, 2 days work from home 
• International exposure to the global Guidepoint client service teams 
• Monthly commissions paid in USD 
• Generous paid annual leave 
• Casual and entrepreneurial work environment 
• Social and team-building events 
• Central office location in Marunouchi, located near Otemachi and Tokyo stations

About Guidepoint:

Guidepoint is a leading research enablement platform designed to advance understanding and empower our clients’ decision-making process. Powered by innovative technology, real-time data, and hard-to-source expertise, we help our clients to turn answers into action. 

Backed by a network of nearly 1.75 million experts, and Guidepoint’s 1,600 employees worldwide, we inform leading organizations’ research by delivering on-demand intelligence and research on request. With Guidepoint, companies and investors can better navigate the abundance of information available today, making it both more useful and more powerful. 

At Guidepoint, our success relies on the diversity of our employees, advisors, and client base, which allows us to create connections that offer a wealth of perspectives. We are committed to upholding policies that contribute to an equitable and welcoming environment for our community, regardless of background, identity, or experience. 

#LI-JL1

#LI-Hybrid 

OVERVIEW: 

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced sales/ business development professional to join Guidepoint Tokyo as a Senior Sales Manager. 

Reporting to the Head of Sales, the incumbent should have expertise of selling into global and regional financial institutions and consulting businesses in Asia. It is, therefore, vital that you are a passionate individual who wants to make a difference. 

Guidepoint’s Sales teams are passionate about expanding our reach with both new and existing clients. We support all Guidepoint’s service offerings, helping to build relationships and communicate how Guidepoint helps clients stay informed and make better business decisions. Our teams are motivated to provide custom offerings designed to help every potential client make the most of their partnership with Guidepoint. You will have a significant impact on establishing effective client relationships to further develop our business across major clients.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Develop and execute a sales strategy designed to achieve revenue targets as part of the regional and global sales team
• Strategic sales & account management planning from concept to execution across financial institutions in Asia
• Set the targets, vision and strategy to achieve agree-upon targets and performance metrics.
• Build and maintain relationships with prospective clients in Asia across the spectrum of institutional and investment firm clients by proactively seeking out opportunities
• Communication of market developments to marketing and client service team

WHAT YOU HAVE:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Fluent in Japanese (Native or business level)
• Business level fluency in written and verbal English
• At least 8 years of sales/ business development experience in financial services or similar sectors.
• Ability to thrive within a fast-paced environment, entrepreneurial mindset, and an unwavering desire to succeed.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and within teams.

What We Have:

• Flexible and/ or remote work arrangement
• Competitive compensation
• Entrepreneurial, driven, and ambitious team environment
• Generous paid annual leave
• Central office location

ABOUT GUIDEPOINT:

Guidepoint is a leading research enablement platform designed to advance understanding and empower our client’s decision-making process. Powered by innovative technology, real-time data, and hard-to-source expertise, we help our clients to turn answers into action.  

Backed by a network of nearly 1.75 million experts and Guidepoint’s 1,600 employees worldwide, we inform leading organizations’ research by delivering on-demand intelligence and research on request. With Guidepoint, companies and investors can better navigate the abundance of information available today, making it both more useful and more powerful.  

At Guidepoint, our success relies on the diversity of our employees, advisors, and client base, which allows us to create connections that offer a wealth of perspectives. We are committed to upholding policies that contribute to an equitable and welcoming environment for our community, regardless of background, identity, or experience.  

#LI-Hybrid

Overview:

The Strategic Research team is the backbone of Guidepoint’s success. The team is responsible for efficiently delivering Guidepoint’s services to our clients around the world. We work to understand each client’s unique business questions and help them gain critical insights to stay informed and make better business decisions.

The Intern will work alongside Associates, Research Managers and Project Managers in the Strategic Research team to support them with delivery on multiple projects in different industries. If you enjoy learning about different industry sectors and the opportunity to hone your communication and interpersonal skills; then look no further. 

Who We Are: 

• Team-oriented and collaborative 
• Hard-working professionals who strive for excellence 
• Built-in mentorship to help you drive and improve your project management and customer service skills, to deliver excellent results for clients 
• Hands-on leadership to help you develop your career and provide opportunities for upward mobility within Guidepoint 

What You’ll Do:

• Data entry and updating of the CRM database
• Assist in onboarding administration and compliance of top industry subject matter experts into the Guidepoint network
• Assist the team and Project Managers with other administration and / or operational tasks
• Coordination of phone consultation sessions for subject matter experts in Japan
  
• Assist with occasional industry research across multiple sectors based on project needs in the team
• Assist the Strategic Research team with their outreach strategy to approach relevant subject matter experts
• Operate with a teamwork mentality that leads to building and maintaining strong relationships with other Guidepoint colleagues

What You Have:

• High level fluency in both Japanese and English
• Must be able to work at least 3 days a week and commit to a minimum of 3 months
  
• Pursuing a Bachelor's degree and above
  
• Intellectual curiosity and desire to learn
• Hard working and diligent
• Ability to work independently
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment
• Effective time management skills

 Skills You Will Learn:

• Project / Time Management 
• Innovative / Strategic Problem Solving 
• Public Speaking / Elevator Pitches 
• Business acumen

 What We Have: 

• Flexible work arrangement
• Development opportunities through the LinkedIn Learning platform
• Casual and entrepreneurial work environment 
• Social and team-building events 
• Central office location in Otemachi, located near Otemachi and Tokyo stations

 Interview Process: 

• Meet your Guidepoint Recruiter! 
  • Virtual Initial Candidate Screen 
• Meet the Guidepoint Teams! 
  • Virtual Hiring Manager Interview
  • Onsite HR Interview
• Interview Process Outcome

About Guidepoint:

Guidepoint is a leading research enablement platform designed to advance understanding and empower our clients’ decision-making process. Powered by innovative technology, real-time data, and hard-to-source expertise, we help our clients to turn answers into action. 

Backed by a network of nearly 1.75 million experts, and Guidepoint’s 1,600 employees worldwide, we inform leading organizations’ research by delivering on-demand intelligence and research on request. With Guidepoint, companies and investors can better navigate the abundance of information available today, making it both more useful and more powerful. 

At Guidepoint, our success relies on the diversity of our employees, advisors, and client base, which allows us to create connections that offer a wealth of perspectives. We are committed to upholding policies that contribute to an equitable and welcoming environment for our community, regardless of background, identity, or experience. 

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