This role combines project management and DX consulting for Rakuten’s enterprise customers. The successful candidate is expected to understand client business challenges, propose digital and technology solutions, coordinate solution design, and lead projects from planning through delivery. Requirements typically include several years of experience in project management, consulting, enterprise solution development, or systems implementation, along with strong communication and stakeholder-management skills. Experience with digital transformation, cloud, software, data, or telecommunications is advantageous. Candidates should be comfortable working across sales, engineering, and customer teams, managing schedules and risks, preparing proposals, and operating in a fast-paced international environment. Business-level Japanese and English may be expected, depending on customer and internal team needs.
Rakuten Group, Inc. is a major Japanese technology and internet company headquartered in Tokyo. Founded in 1997, it operates a broad ecosystem that includes online shopping, fintech, mobile communications, digital content, travel, advertising, and business services. Rakuten’s enterprise business helps corporate customers use telecommunications, cloud, data, software, and digital platforms to improve operations and create new services. The company is known for its large membership base, strong technology focus, and distinctive corporate culture, including English as an important working language in many departments. Employees typically work in cross-functional and international teams, collaborating with colleagues, customers, and technology partners. The role sits within Rakuten’s Group Sales Division and supports enterprise digital-transformation initiatives, linking customer needs with the company’s engineering and solution-development capabilities.
Japan offers strong opportunities in technology, consulting, telecommunications, finance, manufacturing, tourism, and international business, especially in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, and Fukuoka. The culture values punctuality, reliability, teamwork, and consideration for others, while workplaces are gradually becoming more flexible and international. Daily life is generally safe and convenient, with excellent public transport, healthcare, food, and infrastructure. Tokyo provides the widest career choices but has high rent and a fast pace; regional cities offer more space and a slower lifestyle. Foreign professionals normally need an appropriate work visa, commonly sponsored by their employer, such as an Engineer/Specialist in Humanities/International Services visa or a Highly Skilled Professional visa. Relocation usually involves securing housing, registering an address, arranging health insurance, and obtaining a residence card. Japanese ability is not always essential in global companies, but it greatly improves career options and everyday integration.
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