Rakuten

Consultant

• lead complex client analytics projects from definition to delivery
• design and oversee the development of sophisticated analytical solutions
• provide expert guidance on advanced analytical techniques, data modeling, and experimental design
• lead client workshops and strategic discussions
• mentor mid and junior-level consultants
• contribute to the strategic direction and capability development of the Advanced Analytics team
• present analytical findings and strategic recommendations

Senior Consultant, Advanced Analytics

Product Marketing

• Collaborate with the Product team to develop compelling, differentiated product messaging and positioning.
• Inform messaging priorities with compelling and timely assessment and insights on market knowledge, competitive insights, buyer personas, business performance analytics, and corporate priorities.
• Develop and partner with Sales Enablement to educate internal teams on our B2B products, the value propositions for each, and develop compelling messaging that will address their needs for the jobs to be done.
• Create and deliver product demos to illustrate Rakuten’s capabilities, differentiators, and benefits for practitioners.
• Partner closely with Commercialization Strategy on analytics, research, and insights to influence and inform product roadmap and drive pricing and packaging.
• Closely collaborate with management to build compelling, high-performing marketing campaigns that contribute to increased sales pipeline and new customer acquisition.
• Become an expert on the market, competitive landscape, and buyer needs and behaviors, with documented materials and regular presentations to educate internal teams.
• Conceptualize, write copy and provide art direction for educational and value-based product content for a variety of channels and purposes.
• Create compelling marketing content that maps to integrated marketing campaigns and product promotion themes (blogs, white papers, guides, emails and videos) and maintain development plan for resourcing and coordinated campaign planning.

Product Marketing Manager

Business Operations

• Translate annual and multi-year strategic priorities into clear operating plans, milestones, and review cadences that connect leadership intent to measurable outcomes.
• Structure executive and leadership discussions, including OKR and priority-setting forums, to surface tradeoffs, drive decisions, and ensure commitments are documented and followed through.
• Own and continuously improve the company’s enterprise operating rhythm, including executive planning sessions, leadership offsites, All Hands, and quarterly and annual business reviews.
• Maintain enterprise-level visibility into critical initiatives, dependencies, risks, and outcomes, surfacing issues early and aligning leaders on mitigation and course correction.
• Design and maintain KPI frameworks, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms that inform executive decision-making and reinforce accountability.
• Develop executive-ready insights, recommendations, and materials for senior leadership consumption.
• Contribute to competitive and market analyses in support of decision-making, partnering with relevant internal teams and Rakuten international as needed.
• Use Claude and similar AI tools to produce first-pass drafts of executive materials and rapid competitive scans; build simple, repeatable prompt/agent workflows to standardize outputs and reduce cycle time for exec cadence.

Strategic Business Operations Manager

Growth Marketing

• Develop a data and user first approach to the new acquisition strategy
• Owning and allocating a large marketing budget with a continual focus on efficiency and maximizing lifetime value
• Build the test and learn strategy with a foundation of constant experimentation
• Monitor all metrics and KPIs for growth enabling continuous optimization
• Effectively hire and allocate resources (people and technology) to maximize impact
• Work cross-functionally with internal teams (product, design, engineering) to take an automation- and technology-first approach to efficiently scale new user growth
• Discover new vendors, technologies, and channels to facilitate short- and long-term growth
• Leverage acquisition tactics to discover new retention activities targeted towards the current member base

Senior Director, Growth Marketing

Marketing

• Drive pipeline growth for advertising and affiliate marketing solutions
• Own integrated demand generation programs
• Partner closely with Sales and Product
• Use data to continuously optimize performance
• Plan and execute integrated B2B campaigns
• Own marketing funnel performance
• Manage marketing operations workflows
• Partner with Sales Enablement
• Develop positioning and messaging
• Support go-to-market efforts for new product features
• Build and manage retailer-focused content
• Track, analyze, and report results
• Manage budget and vendor relationships

B2B Marketing Manager

Strategy

• Leading key projects to drive Rakuten International’s evolution through its market, product, integration, and overall growth strategy.
• Lead the development and execution of long-term business strategies in alignment with company goals.
• Conduct competitive and market analyses to support business decisions.
• Coaching and developing team members to be future leaders and to achieve their own development goals.
• Guiding complex quantitative and qualitative research coupled with analysis to drive key business decision making.
• Structure and lead complex cross-functional strategic initiatives and special projects.
• Providing thought leadership and ad-hoc strategic advisory to leaders across the company.
• Presenting recommendations and leading discussions with all levels of management including C-level executives across Rakuten International businesses.
• Partner with executive leadership to identify growth opportunities, evaluate market trends, and drive strategic priorities.
• Evaluate potential partnerships, M&A opportunities, and investments, lead business case development.
• Understanding and staying current with the competitive landscape and macro trends.

Director, Corporate Strategy

User Researcher

• Lead UX research end-to-end, from problem framing through synthesis and recommendation
• Translate ambiguous business questions into structured research plans aligned to product goals
• Design and execute qualitative and quantitative research across discovery, evaluation, and optimization
• Synthesize research, analytics, and market signals into actionable product insights
• Deliver evidence-based recommendations that inform product direction, risks, and tradeoffs
• Present findings clearly and confidently to senior and cross-functional stakeholders
• Build strong partnerships with Product, Design, Engineering, and Marketing
• Influence prioritization and roadmap decisions through research-backed storytelling
• Contribute to research standards and improve research literacy across teams

Senior UX Researcher

Product Designer

• Own end-to-end design and set the design direction of Rakuten’s core member experience across Web, iOS, and Android, from problem framing through shipped product
• Define foundational UX patterns and interaction standards that scale and uplift craft
• Drive research and competitive analysis to uncover pain points and validate solutions
• Shape squad-level vision, influence product direction through compelling presentations, and build stakeholder buy-in
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, and UX writers; communicate design rationale clearly and make pragmatic tradeoffs with engineering
• Navigate complex stakeholder dynamics across multiple teams, driving alignment and maintaining momentum
• Contribute informally to design culture through critiques, knowledge sharing, and helping raise the bar across the broader design org
• Leverage AI tools and Claude Code to rapidly build interactive prototypes that validate UX concepts early, reducing reliance on engineering cycles for exploratory work
• Embrace AI-assisted workflows across research synthesis, ideation, and iteration, bringing a modern, tool-forward approach to the design process

Lead Product Designer, Growth

• 楽天モバイルにおける基地局展開計画の策定や事業計画に基づくNW強靭化計画の策定、プロジェクト化及び実行。
• 取締役や役員クラスへの定量的な報告及び意思決定の補佐。

プロジェクトマネージャー, UX

• 楽天モバイルにおける基地局展開計画の策定や事業計画に基づくNW強靭化計画の策定、プロジェクト化及び実行。
• 取締役や役員クラスへの定量的な報告及び意思決定の補佐。
• 上記業務を日本語及び英語を使用して関連部署と連携しながら進めます。