Hiring and integrating talents with diverse backgrounds

We are hiring highly-qualified people with diverse backgrounds including gender identity and age. Each one of us is committed to become self-reliant and respectful, and we join together to achieve our mission at WealthNavi.

We believe that a higher level of employee engagement improves employee performance, drives continuous growth, and eventually helps provide better products and services to our customers. WealthNavi provides various programs which support our employees to grow and to be motivated.

Performance review

We have performance reviews twice a year. We have monthly one-on-one meetings and interim review meetings for each performance review to offer an opportunity to encourage employees to grow through timely and appropriate feedback. In addition, multiple managers evaluate one employee in the review process to ensure fairness and impartiality.

Equity awards / Employee stock ownership program

We have introduced equity awards to help motivate our employees to further contribute to our growth and to increase morale. In addition, we have established the Employee Stock Ownership program to support our employees’ asset building.

“Value Champion Awards”

We nominate and give “Value Champion Awards” to our employees and projects that best represent our corporate values on a semi-annual basis. The categories include Best Individual, Best Project, Honorable Mention, and Best New Face, and nominees are chosen by recommendations from our executives and managers. Through this Award Program, we share and recognize our corporate values that we should embody when developing and delivering our services at WealthNavi. We believe that the Awards help our employees motivate themselves as well as learn, advance and thrive in their careers.

Weekly Get-Together

We hold a weekly Get-Together to welcome new employees, celebrate employees’ birthdays, give awards to employees, and enjoy seasonal events. We strive to create a comfortable working environment by getting to know each other.

Supporting talent development of our employees

WealthNavi provides various opportunities and programs to support our employees to develop their own expertise as well as new areas to grow further. The following are examples of our programs.

Training programs

・Various work-related training programs
・Management training program
・In-house study sessions on wealth management
・Internship programs for prospective new graduates

Support programs

・Support for qualification exams such as Securities Sales Representative and Internal Control Manager
・Support to be certified as a CFP and AFP
・Support for external training for skill development
・Support for book purchase

Encouraging women’s advancement

We believe gender diversity drives innovation and leads to our sustainable growth. At WealthNavi, we are proactively appointing female managers in order to reflect diverse perspectives in our management strategies. As the number of female managers who play active roles in finance and technology industries is still insufficient in Japan, we have launched the “Equal Opportunity Project” to support the career development of female managers through such activities as sessions by external guests.

In addition, we are actively improving our work environment to help achieve a better work-life balance. We believe that a variety of work styles to support creating the best possible balance of work and family life is essential for female employees to play an active role at the workplace.

Promoting work-life balance for a diverse workforce

WealthNavi is striving to improve labor practices so that each employee can work with a sense of security and belonging by choosing from a range of work styles designed to match different life stages.

Work-Life balance

We allow our employees to flexibly choose their working hours and locations to improve their work-life balance.
・Flexible working hours
・Working from home

Healthy working hours

We are dedicated to keeping our employees healthy. We exercise appropriate labor management and comply with the relevant labor laws. We are working to reduce overtime work and balance workload by monitoring working hours and interviewing employees. In addition, we encourage employees to take paid time off to recharge both physically and mentally.

Family care

We provide benefits to support our employees in personal and family life. The benefits are as follows.
・Childcare leave
・Reduced working hours for childcare
・Time off for child nursing care
・Elderly family member care leave
・Reduced working hours for elderly family member care
・Time off for nursing care

WealthNavi supports a better environment, health and safety (EHS) at the workplace and complies with all relevant laws, regulations and our internal rules in order to promote the well-being of our employees.

Early detection of health issues

We are striving to promote our employees’ health. Our employees have annual medical checkups and stress level assessment along with consultation by our occupational doctor. In addition, we have set up a hotline to talk on any issues regarding EHS.

Workplace health promotion

In accordance with the Industrial Safety and Health Act, we hold Health Committees on a monthly basis. The committee members include the Chair, a health manager, an occupational doctor, and representative employees with experience in health management. The Health Committee discusses issues such as employees’ health and work environment, and these discussions are reflected in occupational safety measures to ensure that all employees can work in good physical and mental health.