Data Scientist -Payment Strategy ORakuten PaymentPayment]

Job Description:

■ Mission

This position is within the Strategy Office of Rakuten Payment, a Fintech business within the Rakuten Group. Rakuten Payment offers a diverse range of cashless payment options and marketing solutions through them.

As the cashless business enters its second phase, you will be responsible for developing sustainable growth strategies, executing those strategies, and resolving issues. Your work will contribute to the further development of the Fintech and data marketing domains.

Specifically, your mission includes:

・Identifying issues at the management level through external and internal environmental analysis, and demonstrating advantages to stakeholders while balancing "overall optimization as a company" and "individual optimization of services/businesses."

・Creating numerous synergy opportunities with various Rakuten Group services to further expand the Rakuten Ecosystem and contribute to strengthening its foundation.

■ Department Introduction / Organization Structure

Our office plays a role in both corporate strategy (towards management) and business strategy (towards individual businesses) to fulfill our mission, indicating the direction and guidelines for the entire company. This includes understanding the current situation, conducting internal and external analysis and research, identifying issues through gaps with the vision, formulating strategies and roadmaps to resolve those issues, PMO in various strategy execution phases, supporting management decision-making, and Biz Dev.

The department consists of three groups: Corporate Strategy (3 members), Strategic Insights (5 members), and Business Strategy (3 members).

Corporate Strategy Group: Responsible for formulating and executing company-wide strategies with a view to the medium- to long-term growth of Rakuten Payment, new business development, alliance promotion, handling special projects, and supporting management.

Strategic Insights Group: Responsible for identifying and proposing solutions based on surveys of the payment and common point market, competitive research, etc., and for structuring data acquired through payment and shared points and supporting the planning and promotion of solutions.

Business Strategy Group: Responsible for planning and executing business strategies in the Fintech and marketing fields, and for leading company-wide projects (e.g., strategy planning and execution for Rakuten Pay, Rakuten Edy, and Rakuten Point Card businesses).

■ Background of Recruitment

Rakuten Payment was established in 2019 as a core company of the Rakuten Group. As the youngest company in the group, we are developing the cashless business, one of the most rapidly evolving areas today.

Amidst many competitors, how will we fight in the future, and what kind of services will we deliver and permeate society?

We are looking for someone who can maximize the individuality of each Rakuten business and the commonality of unified assets, and shape the next value together in a newly formed organization.

■ Job Description

・Develop and propose new solutions by combining offline purchase data and payment data linked to member IDs with Rakuten Group's online data using technology.

・Support business problem-solving and strategy planning from a data perspective, not only through data visualization but also through the construction of future prediction models.

■ Required Skills/Experience

・Minimum of 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 strong desire for self-improvement are highly valued.

・Motivation to achieve a TOEIC score of 800 or higher, or an equivalent score within the past 2 years.

■ Preferred Skills/Experience

Since it is expected that you will often be working on issues that have no answers yet with hypotheses and necessary evidence, we would like to focus on the following points in the recruitment selection:

・Ability to accurately verbalize and document hypotheses and evidence.

・Ability to work with a positive attitude in any environment.

・Have a high perspective and can constantly ask "Why?"

・Research and analytical skills to support hypotheses and evidence.

■ Potential Career Path

Because the scope of activities includes not only data analysis, suggestions, and hypothesis formulation, but also the realization and deployment of services and businesses, you will develop planning execution skills full of on-site experience that are not just superficial.

■ Message from the Manager

We should be able to create solutions that can only be created by our company, which has approximately 100 million IDs and online and offline data linked to them as assets. In addition, our group has bases that develop data and AI globally. Let's create services that contribute to customer value, business partner value, and society together with big data and AI.

■ Company Introduction (Common, No Editing Required)

The Rakuten Group's basic management philosophy is to "empower people and society through innovation." Rakuten provides over 70 diverse services to over 100 million Rakuten members, 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, covering a wide range of people's life scenes. At the same time, we have built a strong business model called the "Rakuten Ecosystem," which organically links users with various services.

Within this, we, Rakuten Payment, as a member of the Fintech Group Company within the group, are developing a variety of payment-related services such as "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. In addition, we will create numerous innovations in "finance x group domains such as finance and commerce."

To a world where anyone can enjoy the same value, no matter where they are, with the power of technology.

In the midst of the rapid expansion of the digital domain in society, we seamlessly connect the internet and the real world through payments, so that everyone can live their daily lives safely, securely, and more comfortably using technology as a means.

With the aim of creating such a society, we want to face the various problems faced by all people and move forward together towards the next stage.