Associate Project Manager

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.

Rakuten Group, Inc. is a global leader in internet services that empower individuals, communities, businesses, and society. Founded in Tokyo in 1997 as an online marketplace, Rakuten has expanded to offer services in e-commerce, fintech, digital content, and communications to approximately 1.7 billion members around the world. The Rakuten Group has nearly 32,000 employees and operations in 30 countries and regions. For more information visit https://global.rakuten.com/corp/

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: https://corp.rakuten.co.jp/careers/feature/adtech/en/

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Be engaged in the whole process of an application development project (requirement definition, specification design, development, testing, release).
• Ensure that the project goal is well-aligned and manage the project team to accomplish it with the required level of quality.
• Apply project management techniques to successfully deliver projects on scope, time, and budget.
• 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.
• 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.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience writing spec documents and project reports.
• Familiarity with AD/Internet-based applications.
• Experience working with remote teams.
• Familiarity with JIRA, Confluence, and MS Teams.

Please be informed that this is a 1-year contract position. (Subject to conversion)

Rakuten is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications regardless of sex, marital status, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious belief, or age.