Associate Project Manager

Job Description:
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.

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 the UK.

GATD Website:
About the team

We develop and maintain a 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 assets.

What are we looking for?

As a Project Manager of our GATD Team, he/she is often known as the “face” of the project.

The Project Manager's role entails coordinating all project activities across various workstreams and team members, and extensive interaction with stakeholders is inevitable. Therefore, the individual should be prepared to problem-solve, demonstrate robust leadership capabilities, and exhibit excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Critical thinking is paramount for maintaining the project's image and integrity. He/She must adeptly navigate the pressure and stress inherent in project execution, ensuring the project stays on course.

A successful Project Manager embodies professionalism, setting an example with high moral standards, ethics, and credibility, regardless of challenges encountered.

Position Details

Business Process Execution
- Work closely with the Product Managers, Business Unit, and other stakeholders, to understand their needs and business direction.
- Work with the project team to execute the project successfully.

Project and Service Execution
- Ensure that the project goal is well-aligned and manage the project team to accomplish it with the required level of quality.
- Work closely with the cross-border tech teams to achieve project outcomes.
- Ensure smooth communication and comprehension among all various stakeholders both in development projects and in-service maintenance.

Collaboration
- Working closely with the Senior Product Manager, Tech Lead, Architect, and other project members
- Collaborate with different teams like Dev, QA and DevOps team.
- Collaborate with cross-culture, cross-border development team during the project execution.

Mandatory Qualifications:

- Basic knowledge on Computer Science and software development.
- Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills, and 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 establish positive working relationships and achieve goals together.
- Ability to manage multiple projects at once, as required, and prioritize appropriately.
- Team player and easy-going person.
- Proactive, self-starter and self-motivated.
- Perform under immense pressure.
- Strong get-things-done mind with a sense of ownership.

Desired Qualifications:

- Strong skills to write spec documents and project reports.
- Previous experience in working on projects.
- Work experience with a remote team.
- Familiarity with JIRA, Confluence, and MS Teams.
- Experience leading a team is an activity that you like. Eg: CCA Clubs, Tech Clubs, and Toastmaster program.