Description

Department Overview

The Leisure Product Department (LPD) handles lifestyle and leisure services, some being category leaders in Japan. We aim to grow globally and become world leaders through innovation and technology. We seek globally minded engineers to contribute to service development.

Our services include:

• Rakuten GORA: Golf course reservation service
• Rakuten Beauty: Salon reservation service
• Rakuten Keiba: Horse racing online betting service
• Rakuten Kdreams: Cycle racing online betting service
• Rakuten toto/lottery: Toto/lottery online sales service
• Rakuten Car: Automotive-related services

Position:

Why We Hire

Rakuten Car is a new brand covering automotive services, including car purchase and sale, washing, and inspection. We aim to make it easier to understand our diverse services and lay the groundwork for strengthened collaboration between related services.

We seek an experienced Product Manager/Product Owner who is passionate about driving business growth. You will join the development team and work as a bridge person to connect business teams, customers, and development teams. You will design product strategies, define requirements, and run iteration cycles.

Position Details

• Gain a deep understanding of business strategy, customer experience, competitor, and trend and develop product strategy
• Based on data analysis, plan a new project and define requirements
• Lead the system integration project together with internal, business, and development teams
• Responsible for product quality and release products with development members
• Verify the effect of our plan and run fast PDCA cycle

Work Environment

We have non-Japanese employees from more than 10 countries and you can work in a cross-cultural environment.

About 5 to 10 members are in charge of each service.

Mandatory Qualifications:

• 3+ years of proven work experience in product management or equivalent job for web system development
• Proven ability to develop product and marketing strategies, and effectively communicate recommendations to executive management
• Skilled at working effectively with cross-functional teams in a matrix organization and external stakeholders
• Read and understand HTML and CSS
• Skilled at data analytics (Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, etc.)

Desired Qualifications:

• Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Java, MySQL, etc.)
• Experience in marketing activities (SEO, Listing, Affiliate, Mail magazine, SNS, etc.)

Languages:

• English (Overall - 1 - Beginner)
• Japanese (Overall - 3 - Advanced)