Job Description

Department Overview

As a senior product manager for Rakuten Ichiba, Japan’s one of the largest internet shopping malls, you will be responsible for propelling product development for sustainable growth of the product to

• provide entertainment of shopping for shoppers in Rakuten Ichiba
• empower merchants in Rakuten Ichiba

This includes continuous discussion with planning department, creative department to improve the product.

Specifically, you will lead large-scale projects aimed at evolving and improving the overall marketplace. This includes defining project requirements, setting KPIs, creating external communication plans, and release strategies. You will also coordinate multiple development teams by overseeing and uniting Product Development Managers (PDMs) to ensure the success of the project.

In this position you will be experienced to plan and launch Rakuten Ichiba by yourself, which is our core business. Additionally, you will gain valuable experience as a leader responsible for managing and guiding numerous stakeholders in high-impact projects.

Position:

Why We Hire

As a senior product manager, you are required abilities below.

• Leadership to improve product
• Taking action following to the long term plan, not to focus on the short term plan
• User-centric mindset
• Detecting the essence of the things
• Good communication skills
• Getting things done, negotiation skills and decision making

We are looking for people who can demonstrate these skills and have a strong passion for improving the service.

Position Details

As a senior product manager for Rakuten Ichiba, you will be responsible for

• Discussing proposed plans from the business department, clarifying business and system requirements, and defining system specifications for the entire Rakuten Ichiba platform
• Determining the direction for evolution and improvement based on market conditions, various KPIs, and feedback from users and merchants
• Creating a roadmap for product evolution and improvement, as well as managing the backlog
• Driving large-scale projects by communicating with a wide range of stakeholders, aligning understanding, and ensuring smooth progress

In product management of Japan’s one of the largest products, you will be able to make huge impact on society with small improvement. Of course, you will make bigger impact with bigger improvement.

In creating a product cooperate with other product managers in Rakuten Ichiba and other group company, and professionals and specialists from various area include business department, you will be able to broaden your knowledge and skills in various professional area.

Besides, product managers and engineers belong to the same department and always have close communication in Rakuten Ichiba, so you will be able to lead flexible improvement.

You surely will be able to make use of your previous experiences as an engineer as your strength as usual.

Mandatory Qualifications:

• Communication skill to be on the same page with various stakeholders
• Ability to achieve to the goal over the difficulties
• Keep thinking to detect the essence of the things
• Sincerity to continuous improvement for the long-term goal
• Experience of the product management in the internet service field
• Experience of KPI analysis and improvement of the product lead to the product growth
• 3+ years of requirement definition experience
• Experience leading large-scale projects involving multiple departments

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience of maximization of user experience
• Knowledge and experience as an engineer in the internet service field
• Fundamental knowledge of e-commerce
• Experience in market and customer analysis
• Experience in data analysis
• Experience in AI product development
• Experience in talent management, including talent development

Others Information:

Additional information on English Qualification

TOEIC Score 800 or above

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Languages:

English (Overall - 3 - Advanced), Japanese (Overall - 4 - Fluent)