Raksul's Hiring Owner System: Why Department Heads Must Lead Recruiting

Kazumine Ohara, Director of HR at Raksul, explains how the company’s ‘hiring owner’ model delegates recruiting responsibility to business unit leaders rather than HR.

• Raksul’s ‘hiring owner’ system assigns each open role an owner — typically the hiring manager — who owns the full recruiting cycle from requisition to onboarding.
• CEO Matsumoto personally led CXO-level recruiting, building a track record that cascaded hiring intensity down through executives and managers.
• Three-player model: hiring owner (decision authority), HRBP (portfolio accountability across all roles), and corporate recruiting team (execution support).
• The system is not primarily about filling seats faster; it is a training ground for developing internal business owners and next-generation executives.
• Ohara joined Raksul pre-100-headcount and helped scale the printing division from 150 to 250 people as HRBP, expanding into non-paper product lines.
• HRBP role at Raksul embeds fully in the business unit, attending weekly management meetings and owning headcount budget trade-offs — closer to a COO function than traditional HR.
• Ohara warns that hiring momentum creates quality-degrading gravity; leaders must actively resist it and solicit external challenge on their own standards.

2025-06-26 · Watch on YouTube