Rakuten's marketing businesses include Rakuten Marketing / LinkShare, Rakuten Data Marketing, and Rakuten Insight.
Source posting
Consumer Tech
Rakuten is hiring. 620 roles are open right now.
Browse the openings below to see requirements, locations, and pay where available. Scoutify can fill in and send your application to the ones that match your search.
HQHigashi-Shinagawa
Founded1997
Employees9885
Posted (90d)365
INTERVIEW PREP
3 interview questions for Rakuten (3 from real candidates)
[01] HIRING NOW
See Rakuten's current openings.
We update these listings as we find new roles and learn that others have closed.
Open roles
620
Posted (90d)
365
Posted range
—
Roles with the most current openings
Marketing
84 roles
Strategy & Operations
70 roles
Operations
69 roles
Sales
62 roles
Product Manager
60 roles
[02] OPEN ROLES
Apply to Rakuten now.
Live roles pulled from Rakuten's career page. Open one to see the full description, location, and pay, then let Scoutify apply for you, or apply on Rakuten's site yourself.
The 20 most recent roles out of 620 open roles
Japan, Tokyo · full-time
Japan, Tokyo · full-time
Japan, Tokyo · full-time
Japan, Tokyo · full-time
Japan, Tokyo · full-time
Japan, Tokyo · full-time
Japan, Tokyo · full-time
Japan, Tokyo · full-time
Japan, Tokyo · full-time
Japan, Tokyo · full-time
[04] VISA SPONSORSHIP
Hiring international candidates.
Rakuten has a documented USCIS H-1B petition history.
Sponsors H1B · USCIS-confirmed petitioner
Source: USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. Classifications: yes (5+ approvals), conditional (1-4), no (0).
[05] WHERE THEY'RE HIRING
Where Rakuten is hiring.
These are the cities named in current job listings. A role can appear in more than one city. Remote roles may also appear in these cities and can have location requirements.
Top cities by open roles
Tokyo, Tokyo, JP
579 roles
Osaka, Osaka, JP
14 roles
Fukuoka, Fukuoka, JP
8 roles
Tamagawa, Tokyo, JP
4 roles
Hiroshima, Hiroshima, JP
2 roles
Nagoya, Aichi, JP
2 roles
Sapporo, Hokkaido, JP
2 roles
Yokohama, Kanagawa, JP
2 roles
Remote: 8 positions
+7 more locations
[06] OFFICES
Where Rakuten works.
Headquartered at Higashi-Shinagawa. So you know where you'd report before you apply.
Office data © OpenStreetMap contributors
[07] LAYOFF HISTORY
What past rounds looked like.
Rakuten has had 1 reported layoff round on public record since 2020. We list these because candidates routinely tell us they wish they had known before applying. Context, not a verdict.
Source: Layoffs.fyi, public record
[00] M&A HISTORY
Rakuten has acquired 4 notable companies on public record. Acquisitions tell you about a company's appetite, scale, and direction.
Source: Wikidata
[08] IN THE NEWS
Rakuten in the headlines.
Recent press coverage, pulled from Google News. Worth a scan before an interview or a cold email: funding rounds, launches, and leadership changes are the fastest way to sound current.
telecomtv.com3 months agoNerdWallet4 months agoUpgraded Points4 months agoYahoo Finance4 months agoReuters4 months ago
Source: Google News. Last 12 months.
[09] FROM THE POSTINGS
What the job postings tell us.
These details come from the linked postings. Benefits and working arrangements can differ by role and location.
Rakuten's data is based on approximately 100 million Rakuten member IDs, and the company has recently been expanding offline data use.
Source postingThe Advertising Operations Specialist, Influencer Marketing role at the MIHA Business Department involves designing hypotheses and proposing improvements, not just distribution operations.
Source postingSources reviewed 2026-10-19.
[10] ABOUT
What Rakuten does.
Rakuten's Ad Sales Department provides Rakuten Group's marketing solutions to advertisers. It combines Rakuten member data, a media network of about 70 services, and AI.
Founded
1997
HQ
Higashi-Shinagawa
Founder
Hiroshi Mikitani
Employees
9.9K
2024
Source: Wikidata · QID Q973054
[11] USER-FACING APP
What users say about Rakuten's app.
Aggregate ratings from the iOS App Store and Google Play. A consumer-facing app is the most direct signal of what Rakuten ships to the world.
[12] TECH STACK
What Rakuten actually builds with.
Pulled from the technologies, languages, frameworks, and tools mentioned across Rakuten's recent job descriptions. AI shows up most often. A reflection of the actual day-to-day stack, not just whatever's on GitHub.
Languages
Java3Python3JavaScript2
Frameworks
React2
Databases
PostgreSQL2
Cloud
cloud5
Tools
AI7data science6Docker2Git2Kubernetes2Machine Learning2
Methodologies
DevOps4CI/CD3Agile2
Counts = distinct job postings mentioning each tech in a 20-job sample.
[13] RESEARCH OUTPUT
What Rakuten publishes.
Peer-reviewed papers, preprints, and citations attributed to Rakuten on OpenAlex, the open scholarly-graph index. The volume and citation count of recent work is a strong prestige signal for research-heavy roles.
83papers in the last 2 years
640 all-time2.3 avg citations
Most-cited papers, last 2 years
LLDiffusion: Learning degradation representations in diffusion models for low-light image enhancement
2025-04-11Tao Wang, Kaihao Zhang, Yong Zhang +3
Digital Twin for O-RAN Toward 6G
2024-10-14Huan X. Nguyen, Kexuan Sun, Duc To +2
Safety and Efficacy Findings From a Phase Ib/ <scp>II</scp> Study of <scp>ASP</scp> ‐1929 Photoimmunotherapy With Pembrolizumab in Recurrent and/or Metastatic Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
2025-08-25David M. Cognetti, Joseph Curry, Jennifer M. Johnson +3
Emotional Instability and Financial Decisions: How Neuroticism Fuels Panic Selling
2024-12-16Mostafa Saidur Rahim Khan, Hiroumi Yoshimura, Yoshihiko Kadoya
Optimal resource allocation for rapid convergence to stable healthy state in epidemic spreading models
2024-10-10Saber Jafarizadeh
Most prolific authors, last 2 years
Leon Wong · 8 papers
Kelvin Cheng · 7 papers
Saber Jafarizadeh · 6 papers
[14] INTERVIEW PREP
Going through their loop?
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[15] HOW TO APPLY
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