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Explore hand-picked jobs in Japan for English speakers across tech, education, marketing, and more.
Vetted companies only. Apply from overseas.
RakutenRakuten Group is headquartered in Japan and serves approximately 100 million domestic customers and 2 billion customers across 30 countries worldwide. We provide more than 70 services across various fields including e-commerce, payment services, financial services, telecommunications, media, and sports. Rakuten has expanded its business scale with core businesses such as the online shopping mall service Rakuten Ichiba and the credit card business Rakuten Card, achieving consolidated revenue of 2.2 trillion yen and domestic gross transaction value of 6.0 trillion yen. Looking ahead, Rakuten aims to create a new business model that establishes a stronger Rakuten Ecosystem, including offline aspects of daily life, by fully leveraging assets cultivated primarily through online services, such as Rakuten membership, Rakuten Points, brand strength, and member data. This position is part of the Platform Strategy Supervisory Department, which belongs to a corporate organization directly under the COO and Vice President. Rather than operating a specific service, this department is responsible for driving ecosystem growth strategies and initiatives centered on cross-group marketing across the Rakuten Group. As the only division within Rakuten Group that executes initiatives based on company-wide strategy, it offers a unique opportunity to build a broad perspective while being involved in both strategic planning and execution. The work of the Platform Strategy Supervisory Department is broad and diverse, ranging from proposals to top management on company-wide strategies, to planning concrete initiatives based on those strategies, creating innovative and attractive programs and products, and designing operations that enable customers to use our services with confidence. We are currently looking for a UX Director who will help drive business growth together with the team as we create new services and expand existing ones. Our team consists of professionals from diverse disciplines, including business strategists, marketers, analysts, researchers, and designers, all working together to enhance service value every day. This position goes beyond general web direction or UI improvement work. You will lead end-to-end across product design and content design, requirements definition, specification planning, project management, and quality assurance, working closely with engineers and other team members to take responsibility through to release. In addition, the Experience Section is also working on creating new user experiences and improving product design processes through the use of generative AI, opening up new possibilities together with the team. This is a highly rewarding role for someone who wants to oversee both strategy and execution, act as a bridge between UX and business centered on product and content design, and move the business forward through direction and delivery. Why not use your experience to help us create compelling products together?
- Strong ownership and the ability to take responsibility for deliverables and drive them through to release - A collaborative mindset and the ability to work across functions to achieve results - Strong communication and coordination skills, with the ability to organize complex stakeholder interests - The ability to think beyond UX alone and integrate business, development, and data perspectives - Flexibility in fast-changing environments and the ability to move decision-making forward - The ability to manage and drive multiple projects and tasks in parallel - At least 3 years of experience in UX direction or product direction for web services or app-based products - Hands-on experience in requirements definition and specification planning, including screen design, information architecture, and user flow / transition design - Experience leading the full development process from requirements definition through release in collaboration with engineers - Experience driving projects through to release, including end-to-end involvement from development to launch - Practical experience in UX design, such as persona creation, customer journey design, and user flow design - Experience identifying issues and improving products through user research and usability testing - Experience using design tools such as Figma and Adobe CC Business-level Japanese proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing
- Business-level English proficiency - Practical experience with Scrum or Agile development - Experience collaborating with Product Managers or in product management-related work - Experience using data analysis, such as access analysis or A/B testing, to drive improvements - Experience launching new services or leading large-scale renewal / redesign projects - Basic knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript - Experience involved in the development or improvement of iOS / Android applications - Experience designing and facilitating workshops - Experience applying new technologies such as generative AI to product or experience design
