Full-Time Position (2027/2028 Start): AI Governance Specialist (Entry-Level)

This position is in the department responsible for data and AI governance, promoting Responsible AI and building user trust.

Beyond proactive compliance with laws and regulations (traditional legal work), you will be responsible for understanding whether released products are avoiding what we decided in advance to avoid, and for creating a state in which they keep avoiding it.

After joining, depending on your expertise (legal, or data science, statistics, and engineering), you will start work centered on one of the units below. As you gain experience, we expect you to broaden your range of impact by moving between both perspectives.

• Data protection and privacy: Comply with data protection and privacy regulations, and review projects from the perspectives of privacy and fairness that the company has set beyond legal requirements
• Responsible Technology: Design metrics to quantitatively evaluate the requirements above, and set up and operate monitoring to keep track of whether bias or harmful or inappropriate outputs are occurring
• Analyze the presence of bias in the use of AI within the company, including in HR, and consider and propose ways to introduce AI safely and securely
• Collaborate with the Responsible AI team at Indeed in the U.S. (including communication in English)

• People who want to be involved in efforts to deliver AI safely and securely as a company, and to promote Responsible AI
• People who find value in driving the business forward while in a position of managing risk. People who want to go beyond research and investigation to persuade and move people with different views and incentives, and see implementation through
• People with either of the following backgrounds:
  • Legal background (interested in data protection law, privacy, fairness, etc.)
  • Background in statistics, data analysis, data science, or engineering (the role and compensation expected from the time you join may vary depending on your expertise)
• People who are positive about working with overseas members in English

• Want to be involved in the societal implementation of AI from both the rule-making and mechanism-building sides
• Want to use legal knowledge or data and statistics expertise to use AI safely and securely
• Want to break new ground while influencing business decisions

If you are interested in multiple positions or are unsure which course to choose, you can select multiple courses in the application form. You are also welcome to discuss which position suits you best during the selection process.

Based on your preferences and aptitude as discussed during the selection process, we may suggest a course or position different from the one you selected in the form.

Tuesday, November 24, 2026, 13:00 JST (Japan Standard Time, UTC+9)

(= Monday, November 23, 2026, 20:00 PST / 23:00 EST)

Information on the selection steps will be sent to those who have completed their entry.

Recruit is looking for people who can work with the business to create a state in which AI can be used safely and securely.

While advances in AI bring great potential to the business, they also bring risks that can damage user trust, such as bias and harmful or inappropriate outputs. Beyond complying with regulations, we create a state in which "what we want to avoid" keeps being avoided even in products after release. That is our work.

This field needs diverse expertise, from both a legal perspective and a data and statistics perspective. We look forward to hearing from people who find value in persuading and moving people in different positions and carrying things through to implementation.

• Degree-seeking students enrolled at universities outside Japan
• Applicants who meet the following:

• Comfortable working in both English and Japanese
• Willingness to be involved in efforts to deliver AI safely and securely as a company (Responsible AI)
• Finding value in driving the business forward while in a position of managing risk (An attitude of seeing things through to persuading, moving, and implementing with people who have different views and incentives)
• Having one of the following backgrounds:
  • Legal: Interest in and foundational knowledge of areas such as data protection law, privacy, and fairness
  • Data / engineering: Expertise in statistics, data analysis, data science, etc.

• Study experience of laws and regulations on personal information protection and data protection (GDPR, CCPA, the Act on the Protection of Personal Information, etc.)
• Study experience of AI-related regulations and guidelines (such as the EU AI Act)
• Graduate-level specialized education in law, data science, statistics, etc.
• Expertise in statistics and data analysis (statistical modeling, hypothesis testing, causal inference, etc.)
• Data analysis experience using SQL, Python, etc.
• Experience or study in evaluating and monitoring bias and fairness of AI/ML models
• Experience giving presentations and negotiating in English
• Internship experience at a law firm, a corporate legal or compliance department, or a data-related department
• Experience designing processes using agentic AI tools such as Claude Code

Tokyo (possibility of working in other areas, including overseas, in the future)

After joining Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd., you will, in principle, be assigned to one of the following Recruit Group companies:

Recruit Co., Ltd. / Indeed Recruit Partners Co., Ltd. / Indeed Recruit Technologies Co., Ltd. / Indeed Japan K.K.

The standard working time is 8 hours per day, but employees have autonomy and discretion over their daily working hours and start and end times.

• Monthly salary: JPY 387,500 and up (base salary: JPY 300,000 + grade allowance: JPY 87,500) + bonus
• Example annual income: JPY 5,700,000 and up
  • The grade allowance (JPY 87,500) corresponds to 35 hours of overtime pay per month
  • Premium pay (late-night work allowance, holiday work allowance, overtime allowance, and additional premium allowance) is paid in accordance with the "Employee Salary Regulations"

• Revision of monthly salary: twice a year (April and October)
  • Base salary and grade allowance are determined by Mission Grade and, in principle, revised in April and October (Mission Grades may go up or down).
• Bonus: twice a year (June and December)
  • In the first year, a bonus is paid only once, six months after joining.
  • Bonus amounts may vary depending on company performance.
• Initial Mission Grade: determined and presented during the interview process according to each individual's skills and experience
  • The Mission Grade is a system under which a grade is set every six months according to the value of the role (expected results) an individual takes on. A distinctive feature of Recruit is that grades are set based on the results expected of the role, with high expectations built in, rather than on an assessment of an individual's current ability. Because grades are determined by expected results, regardless of years of service or experience, individuals who take on high-value roles are given high Mission Grades, allowing them to take on challenges beyond their current limits.

For details: Talent Development & Growth Support | Recruit Co., Ltd.

https://www.recruit.co.jp/people/career/

15 days are granted in the first year (of which 5 days are designated days off).

Thereafter, days are granted each year according to length of service (maximum 25 days).

By allowing employees to choose their own working days, we make it easier to balance work and personal life. In addition to national holidays and paid leave, we have increased the number of annual days off that employees can schedule themselves, for a total of 145 days. This averages 2.8 days off per week over the year.

(Details: https://www.recruit.co.jp/people/workstyle/)

To encourage the use of annual paid leave, employees with at least one year of service who take four or more consecutive days of paid leave receive an allowance of JPY 50,000 per fiscal year.

A paid long-term leave of up to 28 consecutive days, available to any employee with at least three years of service after completing the probationary period.

It can be taken again every three years thereafter.

Special leave for family events (marriage, bereavement) / relocation leave / F Leave (menstrual leave) / maternity leave (before and after childbirth) / work-related injury leave / leave to care for a sick child / family care leave / lay judge duty leave / adjustment leave after overseas business trips

1. Entry: submit the application form
2. Document screening
3. Interviews (multiple rounds)
   • Details will be provided only to candidates who pass the document screening.
   • We plan on roughly 3–4 interviews. However, depending on each candidate's circumstances, we may ask for additional interview time to deepen mutual understanding.

Details will be provided to those who have completed their entry.