Unleashing the Potential in Diverse Talent Worldwide

In order to achieve our mission, the one thing Mercari has focused on more than anything else is investment in people.
My commitment as the company’s CHRO is to maximize the impact of that investment.

In our material topics, we’ve stated that our overall policy is “Unleashing the Potential in Diverse Talent Worldwide.”
When it comes to hiring diverse talent from around the world, the diversity of our members is a well source of creativity. Mercari’s policy is to hire professionals from around the world by providing market-competitive compensation and to train our people by providing continuous learning opportunities. We now employ talented members from more than 55 countries and territories. Our engineering organization is especially diverse, with no less than 50% of our engineering-related jobs being filled by members of foreign nationalities.

And, in order to be an organization that can bring out the best from this diverse talent, there are mechanisms that encourage our members to take on bold challenges on an ongoing basis. In any number of situations, all of our members are rigorous in asking themselves, based on our values, “am I taking on bold challenges to realize our mission?” and “am I quick to learn from failure and success?” You could say that the results of this can be seen in the sections of this report that examine what Mercari has accomplished over the past ten years.

We have put together mechanisms to increase opportunities for bold selection and promotion based on the extent to which members demonstrate our values and to provide competitive compensation regardless of our members’ attributes. Eliminating the gender pay gap is a commitment in line with this policy.

Going forward, Mercari will make further efforts to balance investment judgement that maximizes the aggregate results of members demonstrating the company’s values over the long term. Therefore, as part of our culture, we will continue to clarify and constantly update the expectations we hold for our members based on our values. At Mercari, this is our concrete judgement criteria for investing in our people.