Senior Manager, Cloud Strategy Office - Cloud Management Department (CMD)

Description

Department Overview

Rakuten Group, Inc. has 70+ services worldwide including e-commerce, fintech, and mobile Communications. Linking these diverse services through a common membership and loyalty program, Rakuten Group, Inc. has created one of the world’s most unique and robust ecosystems.

Cloud Platform Supervisory Department (CPSD) provides cloud infrastructure services for over 70 of Rakuten Group businesses worldwide. Most of us are based in Japan, India, US and EU.

We deliver a diverse range of IaaS and PaaS products, including but not limited to computing, storage, database, AI data platform, CI / CD automation, security, observability, contents delivery, inter-datacenter network fabric from the hybrid best mix of our own datacenters and public clouds.

Cloud Management Department (CMD) is the strategy, planning and process governance center of our cloud infrastructure products, providing the product portfolio strategy, pricing strategy, budget management, program / project management, security process governance, and quality process governance to all CPSD cloud product DevOps teams.

Position Overview

Rakuten Group, Inc. is expanding rapidly both from the size of business and diversity of business perspectives. To keep up with this rapid growth and changes of business, CPSD are always facing new challenges to scale our cloud capacity and adding new cloud capabilities while properly controlling the risk, resources and quality.

As a Senior Manager of the CMD, you will be responsible for defining the cloud product portfolio strategy, planning the strategic investment allocation to cloud products both private and public, and executing major strategic initiatives through program / project management team.

Your goal is to transfer and maintain our cloud product offerings as the best hybrid cloud portfolio in the world from scalability, agility, quality and cost efficiency perspectives.

You will work with stakeholders such as CTO and CFO of each business company (our internal customer), the group CTO who manages CPSD as an integral foundation of Rakuten’s technology community, product / development / operation managers of cloud products, and public cloud ps.

You should have a strong track record of successfully establishing cloud product portfolio strategy, executing product management and program / project management with guiding multiple product managers and DevOps managers to achieve challenging goals through cultural transformation.

Your responsibilities will be all or part of :

• Product portfolio strategy based on the best mix of private and public cloud products
• Pricing strategy to guide our internal customers to maximize their productivity and mid-term ROI
• Budget management through strategic investment allocation based on the product portfolio strategy
• Program / project management to execute the transformation and strategy

Security and Quality process governance with applying the most-up-to-date industry framework and compliances

Mandatory Qualifications

Desired Qualifications

Other Details

Work Location : Setagaya, Tokyo

Language : We communicate primarily in English. Professional working proficiency in Japanese would be a plus if you are to work with Japan domestic vendors and / or customers.

Organization size : We are a growing team with approximately 40, mainly in Tokyo and Bengaluru.

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