Organization Performance & Development Specialist at ispace, inc. – Tokyo

ispace is looking for the Organization Performance & Development Specialist to join our growing team in Tokyo.

We are a Japan-based company expanding globally in the space industry—an industry with few precedents and no established playbooks.
The Organization Performance & Development Specialist is responsible for building an environment where employees can learn, grow, and perform at their best, with Learning & Development as the core focus, complemented by Employee Support and Performance Coaching from the perspectives of dialogue, relationships, and engagement.
This role is not about simply operating training programs or HR systems. Working closely with business, organizational, and corporate strategies, you will take end-to-end ownership of:
• Defining the talent and skills truly required for business growth in a specialized field
• Designing and deploying how those capabilities are developed and embedded within the organization
• Creating an environment where learning and meaningful dialogue occur naturally

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• Develop mid- to long-term People Development strategies aligned with business and talent strategies
• Define the capabilities and skills required for sustainable business growth
• Contribute to talent portfolio design with development as a core assumption

• Visualize, track and report development progress and organizational challenges to leadership & HRBPs
• Design development initiatives aligned with job grades, performance, and compensation frameworks

• Build an integrated talent strategy in collaboration with Talent Acquisition (“hire and grow”)

• Update and continuously improve onboarding programs for new hires and mid-career employees
• Plan and operate management and leadership development initiatives
• Design development programs for professional roles (engineering, business, corporate functions), support deployment and progress monitoring
• Support early ramp-up and learning for employees transitioning from other industries

• Build learning architectures and development roadmaps
• Design non-training initiatives such as OJT, 1-on-1s, mentoring, and internal communities
• Select and leverage LMS platforms and external learning resources

• Baseline and improve employee engagement through annual survey. Provide survey analysis, reporting and response & improvement actions
• Support and enable managers to drive performance through engagement, feedback, dialogue and support for their team members
• Collaborate with HRBPs and managers to enhance performance management, including liaising with legal and other advisors to provide compliance advice on employee relations & policy matters

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• 5+ years of experience in Learning & Development, people development, or related areas in an in-house environment

• Experience designing and executing development initiatives from scratch

• Strong stakeholder management skills bridging leadership, business, and frontline teams

• Ability to translate abstract business challenges into concrete development and organizational initiatives

• Sufficient Japanese to run a training session for employees in Japanese, sufficient English to collaborate with global colleagues

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• Experience as an L&D Lead or People Development Lead

• Experience in global or multicultural organizations

• Experience designing development programs for engineers or highly specialized professionals

• Experience in high-growth or new business environments

• Strong knowledge of Japanese labor laws, internal policies, and regulations and experience working with labor law specialists (sharoushi), industrial doctors and/or employment lawyers

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