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MercariThis job posting was originally in Japanese. The English version is automatically translated. Please visit the company site for the most accurate information.
As the manager of the BI Product team to which the Analytics Engineer belongs, you will be responsible for everything from formulating strategies to achieve the mission, building consensus with stakeholders, and strengthening organizational capabilities. The role of this position is to maximize the results of the team in building a highly automated and intelligent data ecosystem. Examples of tasks include formulating team strategies and roadmaps to achieve the mission, prioritizing challenges and making resource allocation decisions, building consensus with internal stakeholders including management, explaining the value of investments in the data analysis environment and managing expectations, leading the development and operation of data products such as Socrates, Basic Tables, and the semantic layer, being responsible for quality and delivery, setting goals, evaluating, and developing team members, supporting career development that leverages each member's strengths, fostering a culture of data utilization through disseminating team results and insights across the company, and leading recruitment activities, which includes expanding team capabilities and strengthening organizational power.
- Must resonate with the mission and values of the Mercari Group and each company - More than 2 years of practical experience in team management (including goal setting, evaluation, development, and involvement in recruitment activities) - Experience leading the formulation and execution of strategies and roadmaps in the field of data analysis infrastructure and data products - Experience in building consensus with diverse stakeholders, including management - Practical experience in designing, building, and operating data marts in data warehouses (such as BigQuery), or in data governance and semantic layer design using BI tools - Strong interest or practical experience in improving data infrastructure and operational efficiency using AI/LLM
- Experience leading the establishment or scaling of data specialist teams (such as Analytics Engineers, Data Engineers, etc.) - Experience leading the explanation of value and consensus building for investment decisions regarding cross-company infrastructure investments to management - A proactive attitude to autonomously catch up with rapidly changing technology trends (especially related to AI/LLM) and reflect them in team strategies and operations - Language skills - Japanese: Independent (CEFR-B2) required - English: Independent (CEFR-B2) preferred
