Company Description

Wolt is a technology company that makes it incredibly easy to discover and get the best restaurants, grocery stores and other local shops delivered to home or to the office. Our local commerce platform makes it easy for customers to order whatever they need on one app, for merchants to make additional sales, and for couriers to make meaningful earnings flexibly. To enable this, Wolt develops a wide range of technologies from local commerce platform to retail software and financial solutions, as well as operates its own grocery stores under the brand Wolt Market. Wolt was founded in 2014 and joined forces with DoorDash in 2022. DoorDash operates in 27 countries today, 23 of which are with the Wolt product and brand.

So, why work at Wolt?

At Wolt, we’re about getting things done.

You’ll probably enjoy it here if you like taking ownership, developing yourself and being around friendly, humble and ambitious people.

We work hard to make cities into better places, and it’s pretty cool seeing us grow every week. If you’re passionate about building things that just… work, Wolt might be for you.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We want to have all sorts of people in our team – people like you and me, and people different from you and me. To be able to work with diverse teammates – when it comes to gender, age, ethnicity, life background, sexual orientation, political views, religion, or any other personal trait – we consciously aim to offer equal opportunity for everyone to work with us. This is because we believe diverse teams make the most thought-through decisions and build things in the most inclusive way.

Join us today to build Wolt together.

Job Description

As a Senior HR Specialist in Japan, you’ll be working at the very heart of our People Team, supporting and partnering with our business team leads and all Wolt employees in country operations across Japan. You will lead all HR operations initiatives, work closely with the local HR lead and the global HR operations function to implement cross-organization initiatives in Japan, and provide tailor-made HR operations-related support. You will be reporting to our HR Lead located in Japan

In the role, you’d be working as part of the local People team consisting of HR Operations, HR Business Partnering, Talent Acquisition and Payroll, taking care of all aspects of HR in all of our business departments and sites with over 500 employees across Japan.

What you’ll be doing

  • Providing full employee life cycle support, from onboarding to off-boarding and everything in between
  • Offering support to our local employees and team leads with all of their HR and people-related questions, such as our people policies and compensation, benefits, and payroll-related topics. Working with HR-related reporting and analytics using the data in our HR system, Workday.
  • Working closely with our local partners, e.g. payroll and legal, to ensure that HR operations in your functions are running smoothly and compliantly.
  • Supporting to build and influence Wolt HR strategy across Wolt Japan.
  • Managing HR system updates, and associated employee data quality.

Qualifications

  • We hope you have a solid background from working in People / HR Operations, ideally in a fast-growing, fast-paced environment (5+ years experience)
  • Ideally you have been working closely with HR systems, payroll, people policies (creation & maintenance) and compensation, absence and working time-related topics.
  • Overall, you have a strong understanding of all core People processes aligning with the Japan labor standard act and other related regulations, with a view of what works and what doesn’t.
  • Hands-on experience from HR solution administration and policy design is considered a strong advantage.
  • As a person, you are a strong communicator, near-native fluency in Japanese and English.
  • We hope you have a problem-solving and can-do attitude combined with networking skills and a willingness to take initiative.
  • Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion.
  • You should also work well in a team, but also handle tasks independently and with your own initiative.

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