Job Description:
Rakuten International oversees 7 businesses with over 4,000 employees globally. The brand is recognized for its leadership and innovation in e-commerce, digital content, advertising, entertainment and communications, bringing the joy of discovery and access to more than 1 billion members across the world. Our teams deliver on the company's mission to delight merchants and customers through innovation, optimism, and teamwork.
Rakuten Advertising provides advertising technology and consumer insights to the world's leading brands and retailers. Working with agencies and brands around the world, Rakuten Advertising unites technology, client strategy and consumer insights to deliver advertising experiences that drive increased brand awareness and marketing performance. With access to Rakuten's diverse media properties and audiences, combined with an award-winning performance network and proprietary consumer research, Rakuten Advertising creates the right conditions to reach new customers and sustain long-lasting loyalty.
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The Intern Experience:
At Rakuten, we pride ourselves on giving interns a genuine, immersive experience that has a direct impact on company objectives. You will do meaningful work, and with us, you'll be a true member of the team. We are also invested in your growth as an individual and professional. That's why you can expect curated events such as professional development workshops, interactions with Rakuten leadership, and relationship building opportunities with other interns and professionals at the company.
You can visit rakuten.us and our Muse profile, to learn more about Rakuten's culture and values, as well as hear from last year's interns.
SUMMARY:
We are a growing, super fast-moving team of Data and Product People looking for some hands-on help in crafting, developing and presenting quantitative analysis that will help our product managers make better decisions using numbers. You will be crafting stories with meaningful insights based on data analysis.
You will get hands-on experience with best practices on quantifying and presenting impactful data, a sneak-peek behind the scenes of the Software Development Life Cycle, and you'll learn about the ins and outs of new product development by working side-by-side with a talented team of Data Product Managers, Data Product Analysts and Data Engineers.
This role is heavy on basic statistics, web analytics, comparative analysis and writing, so you must possess confidence in quantifying numbers and presenting them back in written and summarized format. You must also be comfortable deriving and defending your hypotheses based on the analysis you have produced to convince your fellow Product members of your findings.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Conduct data-driven analysis to make recommendations (cost-benefit, invest-divest, forecasting, impact analysis, and more)
- Create visualized displays of quantitative information
- Derive summaries and validate hypotheses based on data and business needs
- Deliver effective presentations of findings and recommendations
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
- Relational databases creation or management experience
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills
- Hands-on statistics experience with Strong Excel skills and an analytical mindset
- Strong problem solving ability and drive
To be eligible for an intern role, the candidate must be enrolled in a university or equivalent tertiary institution as an undergraduate or graduate student, or have graduated within 12 months of the anticipated start date for the internship.
At the time of posting, Rakuten expects the hourly rate for this role will be between $20.00 - $25.00/hour. 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.
Five Principles for Success
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
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 succeed in unknown territory
Maximize Customer Satisfaction - The greatest satisfaction for our teams is seeing their customers smile
Speed!! Speed!! Speed!! - Always be conscious of time - take charge, set clear goals, and engage your team
Rakuten provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. Rakuten considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.