Group Product Manager, Data & AI Platform

Rakuten Kobo Inc.; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 132,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Health insurance

Vision & dental insurance

401k matching

PTO

Volunteer Time Off (VTO)

Job summary

Rakuten Rewards is seeking a Group Product Manager to own the Merchant Measurement data infrastructure end‑to‑end. You will standardize impressions data, validate performance with benchmarking, and productize incrementality testing at scale while leading a small team of PMs who execute the roadmap.

This role reports to the SVP of Product Management and requires close collaboration with engineering, data science, commercial, and legal.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience in data infrastructure, ML platform, or AI product roles.
• Bachelor's Degree required; Master’s Degree preferred.
• Nice to have background in economics, statistics, CS, or quantitative discipline.
• Familiarity with LLM-based productivity tooling and enterprise AI adoption patterns.
• Prior work in commerce, affiliate, or partner marketing environments.

Responsibilities

• Own Rakuten Rewards' data infrastructure product strategy for signals across member, merchant, and partner surfaces in real time.
• Standardize impressions and merchant measurement products as the single source of truth for downstream measurement and reporting.
• Lead unified member and merchant profiles powering personalization, recommendations, and targeting.
• Lead the ML platform strategy, enabling data science and engineering to build, experiment, deploy, and monitor models at scale.
• Enable incrementality testing across top merchants and collaborate with third‑party measurement platforms.
• Define and deliver a self‑serve, cloud‑agnostic merchant data hub with scalable data governance.
• Serve as internal Data and AI product strategy authority across reviews, planning, and evaluations.
• Drive alignment across engineering, data science, and commercial teams to unblock work.

Skills

Data infrastructure

ML platform

AI product leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree preferred

Job description

Rakuten Rewards is seeking a Group Product Manager to own the Merchant Measurement data infrastructure end‑to‑end. You will standardize impressions data, validate performance with benchmarking, and productize incrementality testing at scale while leading a small team of PMs who execute the roadmap.

This role reports to the SVP of Product Management and requires close collaboration with engineering, data science, commercial, and legal.