Product Manager, Rakuten BEAUTY -Life & Leisure Service Development Department (LLSD)

Job Description:

Department Overview

The Beauty Product Group develops "Rakuten BEAUTY" (https://beauty.rakuten.co.jp/ (opens in a new tab)), a search and booking service for beauty salons such as hair salons, aesthetic salons, and relaxation salons.

In addition to Rakuten BEAUTY, the Life & Leisure Service Development is responsible for multiple products designed to enrich and make users' lifestyles more enjoyable, including Rakuten GORA and Rakuten Car.

Rakuten BEAUTY is an online booking service for beauty salons, including hair salons, aesthetic salons, and nail salons.

The beauty and wellness needs of users continue to evolve and expand. We constantly monitor market trends and explore new business opportunities.

However, we are currently still in the position of a challenger in the online beauty industry.

While we aim to close the existing "gap," we are also exploring originality to become the industry leader.

We develop our products with the belief that it's crucial to remain a challenger that impacts the industry.

Position:

Why We Hire

"Rakuten BEAUTY" is not yet the number one service in the industry. As a challenger, we strongly embrace a spirit of challenge and believe that our growth will revitalize the beauty industry.

We are looking for a Product Manager who shares this vision and will help grow the service and lead its products.

We welcome applications from individuals who have a clear vision and passion for the kind of products they want to create in the future, those who wish to provide new value and experiences to users and society through our services, and those who aspire to further step up from a Project Manager or Project Leader role.

Position Details

As a Product Manager for Rakuten Beauty, you will be responsible for product building and execution (project management) to provide new experiences to users and solve various problems they currently face.

Your scope of work will encompass all stages involved in this product, from concept creation - addressing questions like "What should this product fundamentally be?" and "What do users truly want?" - to actual development and release, in close collaboration with engineers and QA.

The products span a wide range, including a user-facing web frontend, mobile applications, and systems for salons.

You will have the opportunity to create more valuable products for both users and salons, aiming to build products that impact the beauty industry.

Specific Job Examples

Future industry forecasting and analysis.

Competitor analysis and product goal definition.

Product KPI setting.

Roadmap creation (short-term to long-term).

Requirements definition.

Task identification, management, and overall schedule management.

Bug triage.

Release judgment.

Work Environment

We are a highly vibrant, multinational team composed of members from 10 different countries. It's a place where teamwork is highly valued, and interaction among members is very active.

Regarding work-life balance, our team embraces a culture of "working efficiently," and we have working mothers and fathers among us. Many employees here are inclined to switch effectively between work and private life, aiming to enrich both their professional and personal lives.

Team Member Interview Articles

https://commerce-engineer.rakuten.careers/entry/workstyle/0061

Mandatory Qualifications:

- Experience in the upstream phases of system development (requirements definition and above).

- Minimum 5 years’ experience in project management in the role of PM (Project Manager) or PL (Project Leader)

- TOEIC score of 800 or higher, or possess equivalent abilities.

Desired Qualifications:

- Experience in market trend analysis.

- Experience in system development (regardless of programming language).

- Experience in building native app products.

- Experience in user research and UI/UX improvement based on it.

- Experience in product strategy development.

- Interest in the beauty industry.

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Languages:

English (Overall - 1 - Beginner), Japanese (Overall - 4 - Fluent)