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.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a senior Employee Relations subject matter authority for Japan, providing strategic counsel and guidance to senior leaders, People partners, and the ER team on highly complex employee relations, labor, compliance, and workforce matters.
- Advise senior management on significant employment decisions and organizational risks, balancing legal, operational, employee experience, reputational, and business considerations to drive sound and defensible outcomes.
- Lead the most complex, sensitive, high-risk, or precedent-setting workplace investigations in Japan, including developing investigation strategy, conducting fact-finding, assessing evidence, and communicating findings and recommendations to senior leaders.
- Provide expert guidance on Japan labor and employment law, regulatory developments, labor-management practices, and emerging workforce risks, including evolving legal, regulatory, and employee-relations implications arising from AI and AI-enabled ways of working, translating developments into practical guidance for leaders and the People organization.
- Guide senior leaders and People stakeholders in navigating the workplace, anticipating the employee and labor-relations implications of changes to work, roles, skills, workforce practices, and employment decisions, and helping leaders implement change responsibly, consistently, and in alignment with applicable requirements and Micron expectations.
- Serve as a trusted advisor and escalation resource to the Japan ER team, providing consultation on complex case management, investigation quality, stakeholder engagement, risk assessment, and resolution strategies, while helping strengthen ER capability for emerging workforce issues.
- Partner closely with Legal, Ethics & Compliance, People Business Partners, Security, and other cross-functional stakeholders on highly sensitive workforce matters, labor-relations strategy, employee representation matters, workforce actions, and emerging risks with potential business, employee, regulatory, or reputational impact.
- Identify systemic risks, organizational trends, and opportunities for improvement, and lead initiatives that strengthen Employee Relations governance, capability, consistency, and effectiveness across Japan, including responsible adoption of AI-enabled ways of working within ER practices where appropriate in Japan.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Labor Relations, Law, Business, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Extensive experience in Employee Relations, labor relations, workplace investigations, employment law, Human Resources, or a related field, including considerable experience advising senior leaders on complex workforce matters.
- Deep knowledge of Japan labor and employment law, workplace investigations, employee relations practices, and risk management principles, with the ability to assess emerging workforce, regulatory, and technology-related implications.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex, sensitive, and high-impact workplace investigations and driving resolution of significant employee relations issues.
- Shown ability to influence senior leaders, exercise sound judgment in ambiguous situations, and effectively manage high-risk matters involving multiple stakeholders and evolving business and workforce environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience within a multinational technology, semiconductor, manufacturing, or similarly complex global organization.
- Experience supporting executive-level workforce matters, business transformation initiatives, organizational change, and complex workforce actions.
- Experience with labor unions, employee representative bodies, labor-management consultation, mediation, and labor dispute resolution in Japan.
- Advanced expertise in investigation methodologies, organizational diagnostics, employee relations governance, and workforce risk assessment.
- AI literacy and demonstrated ability to understand and apply AI-enabled ways of working, including the ability to assess emerging employee-relations, labor, regulatory, and workforce implications of AI and to help leaders navigate responsible adoption in the workplace.
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 [email protected]
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.
AI alert: Candidates are encouraged to use AI tools to enhance their resume and/or application materials. However, all information provided must be accurate and reflect the candidate's true skills and experiences. Misuse of AI to fabricate or misrepresent qualifications will result in immediate disqualification.
Fraud alert: Micron advises job seekers to be cautious of unsolicited job offers and to verify the authenticity of any communication claiming to be from Micron by checking the official Micron careers website in the About Micron Technology, Inc.