Project Manager

Job Description:
Project Manager (Core Platform Section - Advertisement Platform)

Description

Position Summary:
Rakuten is a global Internet and e-commerce company with over 1.3 billion registered users worldwide. Our e-commerce platform is the largest of its kind in Japan and among the world's largest by sales. Rakuten has many subsidiaries as well, including well-known brands like Rakuten VIKI, ShopStyle, Curbside, Rakuten TV, Kobo (e-Reading) and Viber (messaging).

Your team also have peers in Tokyo and Bangalore. In this distributed circumstance, team is driving many projects and operations for our AD/Marketing activities. Your day-to-day task will be stakeholder management (located in Japan, India and Singapore), requirement gathering, business & system KPI (Key Performance Indicator) analysis, project leading and entire development process/software life-cycle managements (including process management of technical software design, implementation, quality assurance, delivery and post-release production support). You will be expected to showcase your strong communications skills to your stakeholders (like business and development team including your reporting line) with sense of ownership of development project.

**Responsibilities**:

- Work closely with remote stakeholders to define proper project goal and business/functional requirement
- Be engaged in a whole process of development project (requirement gathering, technical software design, implementation, quality assurances, operation/maintenance notification to stakeholders) as project manager
- Work closely with tech lead and other engineering persons to achieve project goals defined by you. Engineering team are located in Japan and India as well. So you need to streamline communications with distributed team in English
- Find out business pain points through day-to-day close communication with business team, and propose your solution to solve their issue.
- Capture improvement points based on KPIs and create/execute an improvement plan
- Develop and maintain a deep understanding of systems, and propose system improvements aligning with your engineering team
- Guide and support members as a mentor and be a role model to improve team productivity and achieve organizational goals together
- Strong interest in Marketing and Advertisement
- Catch up latest Marketing and Advertisement Technology and Business
- Know development methodology (Agile and Scrum) and can proceed with Engineers
- Have strong ownership for products (System stability, Product updates etc )

**Qualifications**:
Minimum Qualifications:

- Excellent verbal, written communication and presentation skills
- Ability to build a strong working relationship between technical and non-technical people
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate and guide team members to cultivate good working relationships and achieve goals together
- Strong skills and experience to write spec documents
- Strong skills and experience to develop quality assurance plan and procedures
- Basic knowledge on Computer Science and software development
- Have experiences to complete projects from beginning
- Have at least 2 years experiences of Project Management
- Familiarity with Web Application development, Big Data technology

Preferred Qualifications:

- Familiarity with digital marketing industry landscape
- Experience of KPI managements including AD delivery and marketing activity performance evaluations
- Experience of project management in software development
- Work experience with distributed teams
- Familiarity with project management tools such as JIRA, Confluence

Language Level:

- English: Business Level or above (required)

Primary Location: Asia and Oceania-Singapore-Singapore Singapore

Job: Project Manager

Employee Status: Regular