
The Marketing Division supports more than 70 services in Japan and globally.
It oversees areas including brand, creative, marketing, and membership, with the goal of maximizing customer experience and business outcomes across the group.
The Marketing Division brings together data, creative, CRM, membership, and related capabilities to improve customer experience and marketing outcomes across multiple services.
This position contributes to building reusable, group-wide mechanisms for customer understanding and marketing data utilization.
The Operating Model Integration Department integrates AI, data, MA/CRM platforms, marketing operations, and creative operations to advance the sophistication, standardization, and automation of marketing across the group.
We are evolving from conventional campaign-based and segment-based marketing toward Hyper Personalized Marketing, where we continuously understand the state and changes of each individual customer and deliver the optimal experience at each moment.
To enable this, we design customer data as Customer Intelligence that can be used by marketing teams and AI, and continuously improve it.
The rapid adoption of AI is fundamentally changing how data is used in marketing.
Going forward, the work will not simply consist of people reviewing and analyzing all available data themselves. It will become increasingly important for people to frame the right questions, have AI explore the data, and deepen hypotheses based on the insights discovered.
At the same time, for AI to correctly understand customers and the business, it needs appropriate data, features, customer-state definitions, and evaluation metrics. Even when analysis identifies an issue, improvement cannot be realized if the necessary data or capabilities do not exist.
In this role, you will use data and AI to identify changes in customers and the business and translate those discoveries into tangible improvements. As needed, you will bring together Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Platform Engineers, Product Managers, marketers, and other stakeholders and drive initiatives through to implementation.
Position Overview
Using membership data, purchase and usage data, Web and app behavior, campaign exposure history, CRM/MA data, and other data held across the group's services, you will design and improve Customer Intelligence that enables deeper customer understanding and better marketing performance.
This is not a role focused solely on analyzing existing data. Starting from desired marketing outcomes and business KPIs, you will determine what data is required, what customer states should be defined, what features should be provided to AI, what conditions should be used for segmentation and prioritization, and what changes should be treated as signals for improvement.
Beyond individual campaigns, you will explore issues and improvement opportunities across services, channels, customer groups, and platforms, and continuously operate the cycle: Signal -> Hypothesis -> Investigation -> Action -> Measurement -> Learning.
Examples of Areas You May Work On
This is a cross-functional environment spanning Marketing / Data / AI / Product / Engineering. You will work closely with Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Platform Engineers, Product Managers, marketers, and other specialists.
The role is expected to collaborate with people who bring experience across CRM, digital/data-driven marketing, analytics, AI/ML, CDP/DWH/MA/CRM platforms, data products, and related areas.
We expect candidates to have experience in several of the following areas:
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English (Overall - 2 - Intermediate), Japanese (Overall - 4 - Fluent)

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 150 offices and 120,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG's shares trade on the Tokyo and Nagoya stock exchanges, and its ADRs trade on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: SMFG).
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