Group Product Manager – Data & ML Platform

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

Job summary

Rakuten Rewards is seeking a Group Product Manager to own the Merchant Measurement product agenda end-to-end, standardizing data foundations, and leading a small team of PMs. You will collaborate with engineers, data scientists, merchants, and senior leadership, reporting to the SVP of Product Management.

This role blends hands-on execution with people leadership, shaping how merchants access and understand performance data.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of the modern data stack, eventing pipelines, and AI-ready data forms.
• Hands-on experience shipping AI or ML platform capabilities: experiment management and feature stores.
• Experience with graph databases and graph-based data models for recommendation systems.
• Track record of building data products in partnership with data engineering and data science.
• Experience in performance marketing measurement or affiliate analytics is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Own Rakuten Rewards' data infrastructure strategy and real-time signal routing.
• Lead standardization of impressions and merchant measurement products as the single source of truth.
• Develop unified member and merchant profiles to power personalization and targeting.
• Drive the ML platform strategy to support data science and engineering at scale.
• Enable incrementality testing at scale and manage third-party measurement partnerships.
• Deliver a self-serve, cloud-agnostic merchant data hub with governance in partnership with Commercial and Legal.

Skills

Data infrastructure

ML platform

AI product

Graph databases

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

Graph databases

Feature stores

Model deployment infra

Job description

Rakuten Rewards is seeking a Group Product Manager to own the Merchant Measurement product agenda end-to-end, standardizing data foundations, and leading a small team of PMs. You will collaborate with engineers, data scientists, merchants, and senior leadership, reporting to the SVP of Product Management.

This role blends hands-on execution with people leadership, shaping how merchants access and understand performance data.