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# People Partner, APJ at Asana

- **Company:** Asana
- **Location:** Tokyo, Japan
- **Posted:** 2026-06-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://www.asana.com/jobs/apply/7977717?gh_jid=7977717

## Job description

People Partner (Japan, APAC, and Global)

We’re looking for an experienced, strategic People Partner (Human Resources Business Partner) to support our Japan, APAC, and global teams. Joining the People Team, you will deliver strategic partnership with leadership in order to create and execute on people strategies that accelerate business objectives, and enable our teams to operate effectively with minimal friction. You will balance local expertise across Japan and the broader APAC region with a global mindset, ensuring our talent strategies are deeply integrated into the fabric of the global business.

This role is based in our Tokyo office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Tuesday, Thursday and one additional day of choice, which may be determined by your team. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on the two other weekdays they are not in office. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements.

## What you’ll achieve

- Drive Strategic Thought Partnership: Build and implement department-level talent strategy initiatives, driving talent planning efforts that align directly with business outcomes.

- Consult and Advise: Establish yourself as a trusted advisor to functional leads and leadership teams across Japan, APAC, and globally, leading complex people situations and supporting leaders in building their own capability.

- Lead Change Management: Partner with senior leaders to develop scalable change strategies and drive needed initiatives, proactively planning for contingencies and championing the Asana vision.

- Navigate Ambiguity: Identify root issues and operational needs in complex situations, presenting pragmatic findings and socializing change with clarity to senior stakeholders.

- Manage Cross-Functional Programs: Collaborate closely with the International People Partner Leader, global People Partners, and Centers of Excellence to lead the execution of core people programs, including onboarding, performance management, probation processes, learning and development, and employee engagement.

- Leverage Data Literacy: Interpret complex people data to identify trends, translate findings into actionable decisions, and champion a data-driven culture across the organization.

- Influence at Scale: Actively participate in business headcount and strategic planning forums as the essential "people voice," ensuring talent strategy is integrated into the business fabric.

## About you

- Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making.

- Strategic HR Expertise: Bring roughly 6–8 years of HR experience with a demonstrated track record as a strategic HR Business Partner or Organizational Consultant.

- Deep local HR experience across Japan and the APAC region, with a particular focus on handling Japanese employee and labor relations.

- Professional fluency in both Japanese and English to seamlessly support regional and global stakeholder communication.

- Change Leader: Proven track record navigating large-scale organizational change, managing priorities among multiple stakeholders, and driving complex projects across functional boundaries with minimal direction.

- Versatile Communicator: Equally comfortable diving into a complex spreadsheet as you are leading a "C-suite" conversation, practicing courageous influence to challenge thinking, raise standards, and build trust.

- Independent Problem Solver: Proven ability to manage large, complex projects across functional and regional boundaries with minimal direction.

- Collaborative Partner: Experience working with global, matrixed teams while proactively seeking partnership with HR Centers of Excellence to build holistic, data-backed recommendations.

- Analytic Mindset: Naturally incorporate data and analytics into decision-making and show a strong commitment to identifying and mitigating potential biases in data.

At Asana, we're committed to building teams that include a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, as this is critical to helping us achieve our mission. If you're interested in this role and don't meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

## About us

Asana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named to Fortune's Best Workplaces for 7+ years and recognized by Fast Company, Forbes, and Gartner for excellence in workplace culture and innovation. We offer an exceptional office-centric culture while adopting the best elements of hybrid models to ensure that every one of our global team members can work together effortlessly. With 13+ offices all over the world, we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world and a culture where everyone feels that they belong.

We believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive. Our goal is to ensure that Asana upholds an environment where all people feel that they are respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.

[Join Asana’s Talent Network](https://www.gem.com/form?formID=fbcdec8c-3442-43b9-9b45-d2b5f4ea25db) to stay up to date on job opportunities and life at Asana.

## About Asana

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Asana provides an operating system for human-agent teams, enabling organizations to coordinate critical workflows with a shared plan, shared memory, and enterprise-grade governance.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: ASAN)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2008 (based on the company’s reference to “18 years of multiplayer architecture” in 2026) [asana.com](https://asana.com/company)
- **Founders**: Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Work management / enterprise collaboration software.
- **Target customers**: B2B, including small teams, large enterprises, and global organizations across over 200 countries.
- **Mission**: “To help humanity thrive by enabling the world’s teams to work together effortlessly.” [asana.com](https://asana.com/company)

## Products & Services
- **Asana Platform (SaaS)**: A cloud-based work management tool built on the Asana Work Graph®, offering shared plans, goals, portfolios, cross-functional workflows, and governance. The platform now supports human–agent collaboration, integrating AI agents into the same environment where humans work.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available from the provided sources.
- **Key Metric**: Not publicly available from the provided sources (public company financials such as annual revenue are not included in the search results).
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Not specified in the provided materials.
- **Growth Signals**: Acquisition of StackAI to unify human and agent workflows [asana.com](https://asana.com/culture-and-belonging); global presence with 13 office locations [asana.com](https://asana.com/jobs); named a Great Place to Work for multiple consecutive years.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Work Graph® Technology**: A multiplayer architecture that maintains a shared, real-time representation of work across people and tasks.
- **Enterprise Governance**: Role-based controls, security, and compliance features built for large organizations.
- **AI Integration**: Native support for AI agents running alongside humans on a single platform, differentiating Asana from pure human-only coordination tools.
- **Culture of Clarity**: Operating principles that emphasize transparency, accountability, and empathy, which translate into product design and customer trust.

## Strategic Focus
- **Human‑Agent Workflows**: Asana is positioning itself as the operating system where humans and AI agents collaborate seamlessly, with shared memory and governance.
- **AI Innovation**: An internal AI Council fosters a culture of AI-driven innovation, and the company continues to release new AI features to help customers achieve goals faster. [asana.com](https://asana.com/inside-asana/great-place-to-work)
- **Global Expansion**: Growing its office footprint and customer base in over 200 countries.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Recognized by Fortune as a Great Place to Work (Bay Area list for eight consecutive years) and by Inc. (seven consecutive years). Employees report 89% satisfaction vs. 57% at a typical U.S. company. [asana.com](https://asana.com/inside-asana/great-place-to-work)
- **Values**: Operating principles include “Solve it together,” “Act like you own it,” “Start with heart,” “Know your customer,” “Get to Beta,” and “Cut to the core.” [asana.com](https://asana.com/company)
- **Work Model**: Office-centric hybrid schedule in San Francisco and New York: standard in-office days Monday, Tuesday, Thursday; work-from-home Wednesdays; Friday flexibility depends on role. [asana.com](https://asana.com/jobs/all)
- **Benefits**: 16 weeks paid parental leave, free therapy/coaching via Modern Health, pay equity studies conducted twice a year, employee resource groups (ERGs), mentorship and sponsorship programs, training in bias and harassment, and an apprenticeship program (AsanaUp). [asana.com](https://asana.com/culture-and-belonging)
- **Engineering & Growth**: Access to big responsibilities, leadership training, and a strong commitment to accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA compliance).

## Sources
1. [asana.com](https://asana.com/company) – Company overview, mission, history, values, office locations
2. [asana.com](https://asana.com/culture-and-belonging) – Culture, belonging, benefits, ERGs, StackAI acquisition
3. [asana.com](https://asana.com/jobs) – Careers page, benefits, development
4. [asana.com](https://asana.com/jobs/all) – Hybrid work policy, specific job listing details
5. [asana.com](https://asana.com/inside-asana/great-place-to-work) – Great Place to Work recognition, AI Council, employee satisfaction

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