Product Manager

Department Overview

Our vision is to empower our internal and external stakeholders by providing data driven marketing solutions by developing the Ad delivery, Tracking, Reporting and Data Sync Platforms. Joining us, you will be able to challenge yourself in a wide range of technologies in the frontline of heavy traffic large scale ad applications and platforms, including high performance system development and big data processing systems. Also, you will be able to work about latest digital advertising and Ad platform because we also closely work with outside Ad platformer as well.

In the platform team, we have positions who have comprehensive knowledge of the platforms and keep consider maximizing platform and business contribution.

Position:

Why We Hire

We're looking for a Product Manager who have strong technical background and leads various Platform that support to digital marketing activity.

You 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. You will also drive platform / product collaboration between teams across multiple countries, organizations and functions. You will be required to accelerate Rakuten's advertising business while making the most of our assets inside and outside Rakuten, and there are plenty of opportunities to pursue a further career as a product manager.

Position Details

Product Lead for the digital marketing platform such as DMP, Tracking, Reporting and Data Sync.

Rakuten Ichiba is a top e-commerce service in Japan and one of the largest advertisers in the world. In this position, you 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