Situated in the heart of Singapore's Central Business District, Rakuten Asia Pte. Ltd. is Rakuten's Asia Regional headquarters. Established in August 2012 as part of Rakuten's global expansion strategy, Rakuten Asia comprises various businesses that provide essential value-added services to Rakuten's global ecosystem. Through advertisement product development, product strategy, and data management, among others, Rakuten Asia is strengthening Rakuten Group's core competencies to take the lead in an increasingly digitalized world.
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We're looking for a Product Manager who have strong technical background and leads various Platform that support to digital marketing activity.
The candidate will be responsible for strengthen various digital marketing platform to resolve essential issue of our clients, business product teams, while also having both a technical and business perspective, and working with the development teams to maximize platform value. He / She will drive platform / product collaboration between teams across multiple countries, organizations and functions.
Rakuten Ichiba is a top e-commerce service in Japan and one of the largest advertisers in the world. In this position, the candidate will be responsible for working with the marketing team and business product teams to develop digital marketing initiatives to contribute to Rakuten Ichiba's growth, devising the technical solutions and working with each development teams to drive the platform development.
Responsibilities:
- Define the product vision/mission and strategy. Also, define product roadmap and leading it.
- Analyze and identify essential business issues for customers and sales/product teams, and reflect the right solutions into platform to resolve issues.
- Understand business requirements, goals and KPIs and collaborate with multiple technical teams inside and outside Rakuten to lead platform development to meet business requirements.
- Work closely with multiple stakeholders on the business side with different knowledge and backgrounds to identify the functional requirements for the marketing platform.
- Investigate the cutting-edge ad technology, industry trends and volatile business environment.
- Partner with a program manager and delivery managers in prioritization and planning for solution development (backlog management).
- Collaborate with cross-functional, cross-organizational and cross-border teams to integrate with internal and external systems, platforms, and services.
- Drive or participate in technology vendor discussions, evaluations, and selections.
- Manage product level budget and cost
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Must have at least 3 years of project or product management experience.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint skills required to deliver presentations to both internal and external stakeholders.
- Capable of multi-tasking projects effectively.
- Excellent communication skills and conflict management skills.
- Good understanding of the internet advertising industry and internet technology.
Rakuten is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications regardless of sex, marital status, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious belief or age.
