Product Manager
Department Overview The Global Ad Technology Department (GATD) manages the whole of the advertising systems that power Rakuten. We are a cross-functional and data-driven organization working together in a diverse team spread across five countries: Japan, Singapore, India, China and UK. GATD Website: https://corp.rakuten.co.jp/careers/feature/adtech/en/ About the team… We develop and maintain the comprehensive advertisement platform that allows both internal stakeholders (Rakuten Ichiba merchants) and external advertisers (huge national and international clients) to freely manage their promotional mix and marketing campaigns. Working with us you will be able to learn everything about Rakuten Group's wide range of services and huge data asset. Why We Hire The advertising business in Rakuten is now an important pillar in Rakuten group. There is a wide range of advertising systems and services for multiple services within the Rakuten Group to make ad revenues. Quality of system development and efficient process for development across the services and systems are getting important to make sure more business growth.Importance of horizontally improving team productivity by having wider view from overall to detail process are getting higher day by day so that team can focus more on system development and business outcome. In addition to this, it is also necessary to establish and operate rules to ensure quality in advertising systems and services for multiple services. Based on above our environment, we are looking for candidate who can horizontally improve development process so that our product managers and project managers can focus more on system development and maintenance operations. Position Details - Provide a standard project management methodology within the development organization by analyzing current issue, considering best solution, and getting consensus for it within team. - Establish and support the operation of a standard project management execution environment within the development organization - Establish and operate communication management/flow with business and development organizations - Support the work of updating meeting materials within the development organization. Aligning regular meeting operation flow with stakeholders - Coordinate work across multiple advertising services within the development organization
- Knowledge and work experience in system development project management (3+ years) - Experience in system maintenance and operation - Experience to analyze organization or process issues team is facing, consider best solution for the issues and implement that to the organization. - Experience to make consensus for commutation process/framework(*1) with multiple internal stakeholders(*2) by analysing the issues and different opinion on each, implement agreed way by carefully minoring execution. *1 meeting, reporting structure, ticketing and documentation rule etc. *2 belonging organization and counterpart in biz team and relative tech organization
- At least 3 years of experience as system development project manager or product manager for web service or ad service. - Experience in the downstream process of coding, testing, and operation of system development - Experience using Atlassian tools such as Jira and Confluence - Experience using BI tools such as DOMO - Experience analysing business process.