Jay Lee
Human Resources Director at Diageo
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Lee is an accomplished HR leader with 11+ years driving HR strategy, transformation and organizational development across multinational corporations in South Korea, currently leading HR for Diageo's local business. He has deep experience scaling organizations through M&A, global system rollouts and culture-shaping initiatives, having supported growth from startup size to several-hundred employee operations at Takeda and Nokia. Known for blending consultative business partnering with pragmatic program execution, he designs short-, mid- and long-term people strategies that influence stakeholders and deliver measurable impact. His background spans total rewards, labor relations, leadership development and public affairs, enabling him to improve corporate reputation while strengthening internal capability. Based in Seoul and an MBA graduate from Yonsei, he combines global best practices learned at IBM with hands-on HRBP experience to navigate complex matrix environments. A pragmatic thinker who describes himself simply as a “Pragmatic Programmer” on GitHub, he brings methodical problem-solving and cross-functional curiosity to people challenges.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Ewha Womans UniversityMaster of Business Administration (MBA) Business Administration, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Business Administration at Yonsei University
Github Skills (79)
messaging10
lorawan10
broker10
http-client10
cdktf10
lwm2m10
javascript10
git10
erlang10
coap10
full-stack10
git-hooks10
vue10
nodejs10
pubsub10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
polyglotm/coding-dojo
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1517 commits, 1600 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 8 months
polyglotm/angular-audio-player
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:135 commits, 51 pushes, 5 branches in 4 days
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