Product Manager
Department Overview EC Incubation Development Department (Here in after ECID), which this position belongs to, is responsible for small to mid-sized EC services like Rakuma of flea market app, Rakuten Pay Online, Rakuten Point Online, Rebates, and Rakuten Healthcare. Despite being a separate development group for each service, we regularly hold meet-ups, a place for information sharing beyond services. We have a committee meeting where members with a common interest gather and develop skills. We form communities through cross-group interaction. This is an organization where you can contribute to the growth of the business and grow yourself by contributing to the team’s work. [About Rakuma] Rakuma (former Fril) is the first Flea Market service born in Japan. Since its launch as Frill in 2012, it has continued to grow and is now a large-scale service with annualized distribution exceeding 140 billion yen. [About Rakuma Development Team] With the “Re:valuation” - Redefine the value of something in its mission, we work as a team of producers, designers, and engineers. What users’ problem do you want to solve? What should we do to make more users happy? We are required to think about them and constantly improve and develop our service. The development team consists of various professionals, including producers and designers. We are working hard every day to improve service by using each specialty. Position: Why We Hire We are looking for talented producers to promote projects to solve various strategic issues, such as providing new value to users, improving existing services, improving efficiency of business management, etc. in Rakuten Group's rapidly growing C2C business. Position Details This position will lead the following tasks for Rakuma. - Manage projects for the planned product plan, and explain to development members - Product specification design - Make adjustments and negotiate with internal and external stakeholders - Prepare materials to be submitted at meetings and/or to stakeholders - Project management - Conduct usability tests and user interviews
- Development project management experience(3+ years) - Basic knowledge of application/web development - Requirements definition / scope definition skills - Experience in product specification design / data analysis
- Abilities in problem solving, logical thinking, sypothesizing, and structured thinking -Skilled in facilitiation, documentation, presentation, quantitative analysis, and project management - Experience in an Internet-related industry - Basic knowledge of HTML/CSS - Experience with usability test/user interviews - Experience in preparing planning proposals - Team management experience at an operating company