Summary
Taka Imada is a UI/UX developer and seasoned digital strategist with nearly a decade of hands-on UX engineering experience and over 15 years driving product, partnership, and M&A initiatives across Japan and the US. He has led cross-functional teams at Yahoo! JAPAN to launch products like a 24/7 live news streaming service and data-driven ad planning tools, and closed major acquisitions and OEM deals that scaled data and marketing capabilities. A Harvard MBA and Waseda alumnus with roots in product marketing at Google and Microsoft, he blends user-centered design sensibilities with business development rigor. Notably, he moves fluidly between high-level corporate strategy and tactical product launches, making him effective at integrating UX into commercial and post-merger environments.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.A, Psychology / Statistics, B.A, Psychology / Statistics at Waseda University
MBA, Business, MBA, Business at Harvard Business School
English, Japanese