Job Description:

Business Overview

Rakuten Group's basic management philosophy is to "empower people and society through innovation”. We provide more than 70 diverse services, including EC services such as shopping malls and travel booking sites, financial services such as online banking, and media services and professional sports, to more than 100 million customers in Japan alone (more than 1 billion globally), covering a wide range of people's life scenes. At the same time, we are building a strong business model based on the "Rakuten Ecosystem" that organically links customers and various services.

“With the power of technology, we aim to create a world where anyone can enjoy the same value no matter where they are.”

As the digital sphere of society rapidly expands, we want to connect the Internet and the real world more seamlessly, so that everyone can use technology to lead a safe, secure, and more comfortable daily life.

In order to achieve such a society, we would like to face the various problems that people are facing and move forward together to the next stage.

Department Overview

In Rakuten FinTech Group, we have a variety of FinTech services such as Bank, Credit card, Securities, Insurance, Rakuten Pay. FinTech services are extremely important to maintain our over 70 services called “Rakuten Eco-System”.

Why We Hire

Note: This position is open position as Project Manager within Rakuten Group.

Once you apply to this position, we will check your CV in whole FinTech Group, then we will let you know what positions are good fit with you.

Position Details

As a project manager/leader for FinTech group company, you will;

• manage system development project, project planning, system requirements definition, estimate, project management, and release.
• need to understand the priorities of business requirements, achieve and deliver high quality services on a limited schedule.
• need smooth negotiation and adjustment with internal and external stakeholders.
• need to have good reporting to decision makers.
• need to bring/share know-how from FinTech group companies to promote synergy.
• support autonomous of organization, enhancement of functionality, process improvement, and business improvement.

Mandatory Qualifications:

• Experience engaging in the overall Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of open systems (10 years or more)
• Management experience of development projects, or similar experience (5 years or more)
• Excellent negotiation / communication skills with stakeholders
• Excellent logical thinking ability, flexibility and multitasking capability
• Strong commitment for your mission and assignment
• Strong leadership and initiative

Desired Qualifications:

• Team leading experience (more than 5 people / including sub-leader experience)
• Management experience with engineers to create services
• Application/software implementation experience (3 years or more)
• System planning, and/or proposal experience
• Project management office (PMO) experience
• Process improvement and/or operation improvement
• Knowledge and/or experience about management framework such as PMBOK, ITIL, and CMMI
• Curiosity for new services and technologies and a challenging spirit

Additional information on Secondment

Note: You will be seconded to one of FinTech companies where you will be assigned.

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