Principle Principal University Recruiting Leader

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all.

Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever.

As a Recruiter at Micron Technology, Inc., you will be responsible for providing consultation and counseling to hiring managers, external vendors, colleges, and universities. You will clarify recruiting best practices and constraints to hiring managers and ensure that applicants understand the details around compensation, interviews, and offers. You will maintain recruiting contacts and provide recommendations for company representatives visiting colleges and universities. You will be responsible for understanding the hiring managers head count needs and make sure there is alignment between headcount priorities for the department and the business needs. You will participate extensively in the sourcing, screening, and interviewing process of candidates. You will be responsible for maintaining current knowledge of the company’s financial position, competitive landscape, and locations. You will be responsible for hiring team members by maintaining data in recruiting systems, extending and negotiating offers, initiating on-boarding, and finalizing the hiring process. An additional responsibility will be to participate in or lead recruiting projects that support the company’s involvement in ramps, mergers and acquisitions, etc. while focusing on continuous improvement of recruiting processes.
 

Micron is seeking a strategic and visionary Principal University Recruiting Leader to lead the development and execution of our university recruiting strategy across Japan. This role is responsible for building sustainable pipelines of future talent that support Micron’s long-term workforce needs, including New College Graduates (NCGs), interns, vocational school talent, and emerging technical talent programs.

As a senior individual contributor and trusted advisor to business leaders, this role will define and implement talent acquisition strategies, influence workforce planning decisions, establish scalable recruiting programs, and build high-impact partnerships with universities and external stakeholders. The successful candidate will drive enterprise-level outcomes, leveraging market intelligence, AI-enabled recruiting practices, and data-driven decision-making to deliver world-class talent at speed and scale.

Key Responsibilities

University Recruiting Strategy

• Develop and execute Micron Japan’s university recruiting strategy aligned to long-term workforce planning and business growth.
• Create sustainable talent pipelines for engineering, manufacturing, technology, and corporate functions.
• Lead annual hiring plans for NCGs, internships, and early career talent programs.
• Continuously evaluate market trends, talent availability, competitive activity, and workforce risks to shape future hiring strategies.

Workforce Ready Ecosystem

• Establish and maintain strategic partnerships with universities, technical colleges, vocational schools, government institutions, and industry associations.
• Drive Workforce Ready Council initiatives and collaborative talent development programs.
• Expand early engagement strategies to increase brand awareness and candidate conversion rates.
• Build differentiated talent attraction programs that strengthen Micron’s employer brand.

Program Leadership

• Own the end-to-end governance of university recruiting and internship programs.
• Ensure consistent candidate experience from attraction through onboarding.
• Design scalable recruiting mechanisms and operating models that improve efficiency, hiring quality, and candidate engagement.
• Lead cross-functional projects supporting workforce readiness, talent development, and future workforce planning.

Stakeholder Influence

• Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leaders regarding talent trends, hiring forecasts, talent risks, and workforce capability planning.
• Influence business decisions using talent intelligence and market insights.
• Partner closely with HR, business leaders, hiring managers, operations, communications, and external partners to deliver recruiting success.

Talent Intelligence & Analytics

• Establish reporting frameworks and KPIs for university recruiting success.
• Leverage recruiting analytics to improve pipeline health, hiring quality, offer acceptance, conversion rates, diversity outcomes, and retention.
• Use talent intelligence and competitive benchmarking to guide recruiting investments and strategy.

AI & Innovation

• Champion AI-enabled recruiting practices and automation initiatives.
• Lead adoption of innovative sourcing, engagement, and assessment methodologies.
• Contribute to governance and best practices for responsible AI use within Talent Acquisition.
• Create scalable recruiting processes that improve productivity while enhancing candidate experience.

Capability Building

• Mentor recruiters and recruiting leaders across the region.
• Share best practices and drive capability development in university recruiting.
• Build recruiting playbooks, frameworks, and standards that can be leveraged across geographies.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 10+ years of Talent Acquisition experience.
• 5+ years leading university recruiting, campus programs, workforce planning, or strategic talent initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience building and scaling graduate hiring and internship programs.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Experience using recruiting analytics and market intelligence to drive decision making.
• Proven project and program management experience across multiple stakeholders and business groups.
• Ability to influence without direct authority in a matrixed global environment.
• Business-level English and Japanese communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Semiconductor, technology, manufacturing, engineering, or high-growth industry recruiting experience.
• Experience driving workforce ready, talent pipeline, or industry-academia partnership initiatives.
• Knowledge of AI-enabled recruiting tools and talent intelligence platforms.
• Experience hiring internationally and managing diverse talent pipelines.
• Demonstrated success building scalable recruiting mechanisms with measurable business impact.

Success Measures

• Achievement of annual NCG and internship hiring targets.
• Internship-to-full-time conversion rates.
• Offer acceptance rates.
• Diversity and talent pipeline health metrics.
• Candidate experience satisfaction.
• University partnership effectiveness.
• Executive stakeholder satisfaction.
• Long-term retention and performance outcomes of early-career hires.

Leadership Expectations

• Think beyond annual hiring cycles and shape talent strategy with a multi-year horizon.
• Create scalable solutions that improve organizational capability, not just individual hiring outcomes.
• Act as a trusted advisor to executives on workforce readiness and future talent strategy.
• Deliver enterprise-level impact through influence, governance, innovation, and strategic partnerships.

About Micron Technology, Inc.

We are an industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions transforming how the world uses information to enrich life for all. With a relentless focus on our customers, technology leadership, and manufacturing and operational excellence, Micron delivers a rich portfolio of high-performance DRAM, NAND, and NOR memory and storage products through our Micron® and Crucial® brands. Every day, the innovations that our people create fuel the data economy, enabling advances in artificial intelligence and 5G applications that unleash opportunities — from the data center to the intelligent edge and across the client and mobile user experience.

To learn more, please visit micron.com/careers

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

To request assistance with the application process and/or for reasonable accommodations, please contact hrsupport_japan@micron.com

Micron Prohibits the use of child labor and complies with all applicable laws, rules, regulations, and other international and industry labor standards.

Micron does not charge candidates any recruitment fees or unlawfully collect any other payment from candidates as consideration for their employment with Micron.

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