Rakuten.co.jp is Japan's largest online shopping site, offering customers a wide variety of products ranging from electronics and fashion to food and travel. With over 10 million products from more than 60,000 different shops, Rakuten.co.jp is the go-to source for all your shopping needs. Rakuten.co.jp also offers a wide range of services, from credit card payment to Rakuten Super Points, the loyalty program that allows customers to earn points and get discounts. Furthermore, customers can save time and money with Rakuten's free shipping, same day delivery, and 24/7 customer service. With Rakuten.co.jp, you can shop with confidence knowing that you'll get the best deals, the best products, and the best customer service.
Rakuten Viki was one of the first streaming platforms to capitalize on the growing popularity of Korean content by offering original productions.
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EncryptedSite is Encrypted
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CountryHosted in Japan
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CityShinjuku, Tokyo
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Latitude\Longitude35.6918 / 139.7 Google Map
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Traffic rank#163 Site Rank
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Site Owner informationWhois info
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Traded asTYO,:,4755,TOPIX Large 70 Component
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Founded7 February 1997
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FounderHiroshi Mikitani
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HeadquartersSetagaya,Tokyo,Japan
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Key peopleHiroshi Mikitani (CEO)
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OwnerHiroshi Mikitani,Haruko Mikitani,Japan Post Holdings,Tencent
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Number of employees18,364 (2019)
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SubsidiariesRakuten France,Rakuten UK,Rakuten DX,Rakuten Kobo,Rakuten Viber,Rakuten Viki
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Japan
SUMMARY...
Rakuten Capital is the corporate venture capital arm of Rakuten, a global leader in internet services headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Launched in 2014, Rakuten Capital invests in early and growth stage companies globally. To date, Rakuten Capital has deployed over $1BN of capital and invested in 70+ companies, including Lyft, Pinterest, Upstart, and Careem.
The analyst will support investment activities from deal sourcing to closing. Primary industry focus (but not limited to) will be climatetech/sustainability and fintech, including blockchain/Web3. The analyst will be an integral part of a small investment team (currently 4 people), and will have the opportunity to interact directly with senior executives at Rakuten and founders of portfolio companies.
Key Responsibilities
• Deal sourcing: Attend conferences, network with other investors, and screen for attractive investment opportunities.
• Due diligence: Review due diligence materials, evaluate financial models and unit economics, interview customers and research competitors.
• Deal execution and negotiation: Participate in the negotiation process. Assist the team with term sheet and document drafting. Prepare internal memos for the investment committee. Coordinate with legal and various internal departments to close deals.
• Industry research: Perform in-depth market research to identify investment trends and understand competitive landscape.
• Portfolio Company Support: Provide strategic support to portfolio companies, including leading partnership discussions, validating fundraising plans, and conducting industry research
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities)
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Strong financial modelling skills and ability to conduct valuation analysis
• Highly analytical, strong communication skills, and excellent interpersonal skills to develop business relationships
• Ability to work in a small-team and adapt quickly to fast-paced and changing work environment
• Eager to learn and passionate about investment in high growth tech companies
• Flexibility and ability to engage in other strategic initiatives and projects as required by the team
• Ability to gain familiarity with investment process and legal language literacy
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Power Point
Qualification Requirements
• 1-3 years of work experience in investment and financial analysis positions, ideally venture capital, private equity, or hedge fund principal investment role or relevant investment banking or consulting experience with a top-tier firm.
• Undergraduate degree from a top university
Five Principles for Success
Rakuten Group has an unswerving commitment to building an egalitarian society by empowering individuals and companies to be successful in business and in life. The Five Principles for Success are designed to keep each of us on track, to ensure we make continuous progress toward our ultimate goals.
Always Improve, Always Advance
There are only two kinds of people in the world:
Best Effort people are satisfied with the status quo; when they fail, they console themselves by saying "I did my best."
Get Things Done people are absolutely committed to reaching their goals.
With enough determination and effort—by being a Get Things Done person—you can achieve anything.
Passionately Professional
Rakuten is an organization composed of true professionals.
Real professionals in any field—whether in sports, the arts, science, business or anything else—only reach the top because they have the self-discipline to develop and improve themselves continuously.
Only by consistently working many times harder than our competitors can we consistently win.
Hypothesize → Practice → Validate → Shikumika
Success in business depends on making and executing concrete specific action plans.
Maximize Customer Satisfaction
Rakuten is first and foremost a service company. We're proud to serve our customers and we ceaselessly seek to improve their experience.
Speed!! Speed!! Speed!!
The internet makes the window of opportunity for every small business. Accomplish in one month what it takes other companies a year to do, because we can only win by being many times faster than our competitors.
At the time of posting, Rakuten expects the base salary for this role will be between $58,200 - $99,200. Individual compensation will vary based on job-related factors, including the skills, qualifications, and experience of the successful candidate as well as business need and geographic location. The successful applicant for this role will be eligible for discretionary bonus, health, vision, dental insurance, 401k matching, PTO, Volunteer Time Off (VTO), and other employee benefits as the company implements Show more details...
This position is eligible for remote work in the following states: CA / CT / FL / GA / IL / IN / MD / MA / MN / NV / OH / OR / TX / UT / VA / WA / WI...
SUMMARY:
Why should you choose us?
Are you interested in working for a Global Leader in E-commerce? Are you excited about working on highly scalable platforms and applications that are accessed by millions of users every day? If so, read on to find out more about the opportunity.
Rakuten is the largest E-commerce company in Japan and one of the largest E-commerce and Internet Services companies in the World. Rakuten is ranked in the top 20 most innovative companies in the world by Forbes.
Our team is responsible for building global shared service platforms for integration with other Rakuten services in the region and globally. Your primary job function is to develop and maintain the shared service platforms.
Our commitment to you
You'll benefit from our network of global communities and collaborative culture that will help you build technical and functional skills and capabilities. And because we serve more than 28 countries industries globally, you'll have the opportunity to develop valuable industry-specific expertise. The scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the unique way we innovate, operate and deliver value will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills even as you help create the latest technology trends. You'll have access to leading-edge technology.
Key Responsibilities
• Develop modern web applications based on stakeholders' requirements and industry standards
• Adopt software development best practices, standards and guidelines
• Contribute to software quality, test source code you write, maintain code coverage and quality
• Create and maintain technical documentation for products you develop (UMLs, API specifications, read.me, manuals, etc.)
• Conduct demo to stakeholders
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to deliver good quality products in time
• Support production issues troubleshooting
• Understand the business value of the software you create, and leverage that understanding in improving applications we build
Preferred Requirements
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Profound understanding of software design patterns, data structures and algorithms
• Solid understanding of modern web development standards and protocols
• Work experience with containers deployment (Docker/Kubernetes) is preferred
• Work experience with NoSQL (Couchbase, Cassandra, Redis) and middleware (Kafka, RabitMQ) is preferred
• Work experience with reactive development (Vert.x, Ktor, WebFlux etc) is preferred
Qualification Requirements
• BA or BS required, preferably in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 4+ years of experience in software development
• Work experience with Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot
• Work experience with unit testing and code quality (Junit, Mokito, SonarQube)
• Work experience with git, Gradle, CI tools (BitBucket, Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab etc)
RAKUTEN SHUGI PRINCIPLES
Our worldwide practices describe specific behaviors that make Rakuten unique and united across the world. We expect Rakuten employees to model these 5 Shugi Principles of Success.
• Always improve, always advance. Only be satisfied with complete success - Kaizen.
• Be passionately professional. Take an uncompromising approach to your work and be determined to be the best.
• Hypothesize - Practice - Validate - Shikumika. Use the Rakuten Cycle to success in unknown territory.
• Maximize Customer Satisfaction. The greatest satisfaction for workers in a service industry is to see their customers smile.
• Speed!! Speed!! Speed!! Always be conscious of time. Take charge, set clear goals, and engage your team.
At the time of posting, Rakuten expects the base salary for this role will be between $87,700 - $148,800 based on job-related factors, including the skills, qualifications, and experience of the successful candidate as well as business need and geographic location. The successful applicant for this role will be eligible for discretionary bonus, health, vision, dental insurance, 401k matching, PTO, Volunteer Time Off (VTO), and other employee benefits as the company implements Show more details...
Rakuten Group, Inc. is the largest e-commerce company in Japan, and third largest e-commerce marketplace company worldwide, with over 1.5 billion registered users worldwide. The Rakuten brand is recognized worldwide for its leadership and innovation, and provides a variety of consumer and business-focused services including e-commerce, e-reading, travel, banking, securities... credit card, e-money, portal and media, online marketing and professional sports. The company is expanding globally and currently has operations throughout Asia, Western Europe, and the Americas.
Rakuten Viki is a premier global entertainment streaming site where millions of people discover and consume primetime shows and movies subtitled in more than 200 languages, by our community of fans. With billions of videos viewed and more than 1 billion words translated, Viki brings global entertainment to fans everywhere!
Based in San Mateo, California, this role will be reporting to the Chief Operating Officer.
Key Responsibilities:
• Drive predictable business growth by delivering visibility and improving efficiency across the revenue process
• Responsible for developing business strategies and operational plans to achieve company objectives
• Be adept at approaching opportunities and challenges from multiple angles by coming up with creative business plans to be successfully realized in a fast-paced environment
• Provide company-wide departments with a strategic view of SVOD, AVOD, and TVOD businesses and shared revenue targets to drive achievement of business objectives.
• Connect market data and revenue activity data to propel data-driven collaboration, execution rigor, and operational agility across organizations
• Share both process goals and revenue goals, conduct and lead periodical business reviews with company leadership to ensure a well-defined performance-to-plan analysis, and continue to adjust processes to meet and exceed the goals of revenue opportunities
• Identify and establish partnership opportunities that generate business revenue and growth. Develop and manage partner relationships to ensure targets are met and exceeded
• Work closely with leadership and support to build revenue strategy. Keep leadership apprised of the revenue operations progress
Requirements:
• Bachelor's Degree, Master’s Degree or equivalent practical experience
• Over 9+ years of experience in consumer internet companies in a business operations, corporate strategy, go-to-market monetization strategy, or a similar role, with 4+ years in a leadership and management role
• A desire to do both strategic planning and daily execution/optimization
• Expertise in evaluating opportunities in a competitive environment with actionable, insightful market assessment. Strong analytical skills with the ability to apply business strategy to data analysis and recommendations
• Demonstrated history of identifying opportunities with strategic partners, building and managing relationships with them. Experience in selling one’s ideas, negotiating, closing, and growing commercial partnerships
• Ability to plan a project and effectively manage multiple concurrent projects, balancing short term revenue objectives with long term vision
• Proven leader with the ability to bring many parties and perspectives together, to forge a vision, and to drive towards common goals
• Strong problem-solving skills, comfortable with navigating ambiguity with limited information and making tradeoff decisions
• Team management experience with strength in developing team members to achieve individual and company objectives
At the time of posting, Rakuten expects the base salary for this role will be between $113,184 - $201,032. Individual compensation will vary based on job-related factors, including the skills, qualifications, and experience of the successful candidate as well as business need and geographic location. The successful applicant for this role will be eligible for discretionary bonus, health, vision, dental insurance, 401k matching, PTO, Volunteer Time Off (VTO), and other employee benefits as the company implements.
Rakuten is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status. Women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans are encouraged. #LI-DNI Show more details...