Job Description:

■Mission

To ensure the sustainable growth of our businesses, including Rakuten Point Card, Rakuten Edy, Rakuten Cash, and Rakuten Pay, we will develop new solutions for existing businesses and create new businesses by combining purchasing data, payment data, and online data linked to customer IDs owned by our company with technology.

Additionally, to enhance the marketing consulting capabilities and speed of our employees, we will plan, develop, and operate styles that utilize data and technology. Specifically, this includes the preparation of data environments necessary for consulting, such as analysis systems and predictive model construction.

■Department Introduction/Organizational Structure

To accomplish our mission, our department often plans new solutions and services while finding synergies with various businesses within the Rakuten Group, not just Rakuten Payment. Therefore, we approach solutions that benefit all parties from both business and data perspectives, understanding both the Payment Company strategy and the Group strategy, with the customer at the center. The department is composed of data scientists, data analysts, and members involved in business and service planning. It consists of two groups: the Market Innovation Group, which creates new services in the market, and the Process Innovation Group, which creates tools and environments to enhance employee productivity. Each group includes a mix of scientists, analysts, and business planners.

■Background of Recruitment

Our assets are data, people, and planning capabilities. We need talent who can create data value in new fields without being bound by past successes. Additionally, with many young members in the company, there is an urgent need for leadership that can transfer know-how and elevate the entire organization. Therefore, we are looking for individuals who are personable and can lead the team to success.

■Specific Job Content

• Develop new solutions by combining offline purchasing data (including SKU) and payment data linked to member IDs with Rakuten Group's online data and technology.

• Support business problem-solving and strategy formulation from a data perspective, including not only data visualization but also the construction of predictive models for the future.

■Required Qualifications

• Over 3 years of experience as a data analyst or data scientist (5 years preferred)

  • Proficiency in Python, BigQuery (SQL), and statistical knowledge

• Strong communication skills and a high level of motivation

• TOEIC score of 800 or higher, or motivation to achieve an equivalent score within 2 years

■Preferred Qualifications

In the recruitment process, we also focus on the following points to develop services across the organization:

• Ability to accurately verbalize and document hypotheses and evidence according to the amount of information the other party has

• Ability to work positively in any environment

• Strong communication skills and the ability to leave a positive impression on others

• Research and analysis skills to support hypotheses and evidence

■Career Development

You will develop practical planning execution skills that are not superficial, as your activities will range from data analysis, insights, and hypothesis formulation to the realization and deployment of services and businesses.

■Message from the Manager

There must be solutions that only our company, with approximately 100 million IDs and the associated online and offline data, can create. Our group also has global data and AI development bases. Let's create services that contribute to customer value, partner value, and social contribution together using big data and AI.

■Company Introduction

Rakuten Group's basic management philosophy is "Empowering people and society through innovation," and the Group provides more than 100 million Rakuten members with more than 70 services, including Internet shopping malls such as Rakuten Ichiba and Rakuten Travel, financial services such as Rakuten Card and Rakuten Bank, media services, and professional sports. At the same time, we have built a strong business model called "Rakuten Ecosystem," which organically links users with various services.

As a member of the FinTech Group Company, Rakuten Payments, Inc. provides a variety of payment-related services, including Rakuten Pay, Rakuten Edy, Rakuten Cash, Rakuten Point Card, and Rakuten Check, as well as marketing solutions that combine these services with Rakuten Group assets. Rakuten Group's assets to these services. In addition, we will create numerous innovations in "finance × intra-group domains, including finance and commerce.

We are working toward a world where anyone, anywhere can enjoy the same value through the power of technology.

With the rapid expansion of the digital domain in society, we aim to connect the Internet and the real world more seamlessly through payments, and to enable all people to use technology to lead their daily lives safely, securely, and more comfortably.

We are aiming for such a society, and we would like to work together to address the various problems faced by people everywhere and move toward the next stage.