Takaya Ishiguro
Chief Human Resources Officer at LayerX Inc.
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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SeniorTakaya Ishiguro is a CHRO leading people, culture, and communication at LayerX, an AI-native company shaping how Japanese businesses scale with AI. With eight years in HR leadership and prior experience building Mercari’s HR function through hypergrowth, he blends talent strategy, organizational design, and narrative-driven communication to make culture an operational lever. He oversees remote-first hiring and intentionally designs leadership and decision-making systems suited for the AI era. Earlier roles in product and corporate strategy at NTT DOCOMO and a media firm give him a rare cross-functional perspective on product, marketing, and people. He also advises multiple startups on growth and culture, signaling a hands-on approach to scaling teams beyond the executive office. Based in Tokyo, he practices what he preaches by balancing remote work with regular in-person engagement.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese, English
Github Skills (51)
pos7
websocket-client7
slack6
websocket6
spanner6
javascript6
google-cloud-platform6
apache-beam5
nodejs5
google-cloud5
google-cloud-storage5
google-cloud-spanner5
gcp5
google-cloud-dataflow5
typescript5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
yuuis/sotsu
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
portal site for moving
Contributions:49 commits, 11 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 month
djangoportal-siteportal
t-sweets/pos
Jan 2019 - Jul 2019
pos system for sweets
Contributions:164 PRs, 151 pushes, 130 branches in 6 months
pospos-system
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