1. What is Rakuten?
A global company with unique opportunities for
engineers
Engineer Recruiting Team,
Global Human Resources department,
Rakuten Inc.

2. No.1 E-commerce
company in Japan
Called “Rakuten Ichiba” http://www.rakuten.co.jp/
Nearly
Over
Over
30 40,00 1trillio
%
n
0
Share of
Japanese
online
retail market
Number of
Rakuten Ichiba
merchants:
Rakuten Ichiba
and Book’s
GMS surpassed
*in October 2012
82
milli
on
Number of
Rakuten Ichiba
merchants:

3. Over
40
service
s
Unique
Business model
25
countrie
s/region
s
4
trilli
on
*Group
consolidated

4. E-Commerce
Over
40
E-Money
Loyalty
Program
Digital Goods
Portal &
Content
Credit Card
Database
Banking
Log-In
Travel
service
s
25
countrie
s/region
s
4
trilli
on
*Group
Securities
Telecom
consolidated
Unique
Business model

5. Over
40
service
s
25
E-Commerce
eBook
Travel
Other Services & Businesses
Rakuten Institute of Technology
Development Center
Head Office / Regional Headquarters
countrie
s/region
s
4
trilli
on
*Group
consolidated
Unique
Business model

6. X135
（Million USD
5,000
）
Over
4,435
4,500
4,000
3,799
40
service
s
3,461
3,500
2,983
3,000
2,499
2,500
2,139
2,033
2,000
1,500
1,298
25
countrie
s/region
s
1,000
456
500
32
0
68
99
181
4
trilli
on
*Group
consolidated
Unique
Business model

7. 16 years ago,
Rakuten was born
with a big dream
1991
06
92
07
93
08
94
09
95
10
96
11
97
12
98
99
00
01
02
03
04
05

8. Empowering
People and
Societies through
the Internet
1997
Founded
2000
IPO(JASDAQ)

9. Our EC business
model
is very Rakuten Ichiba:
unique!
EC sites in US:
Product-centric
2002
Launched
“Pay-as-you-go programme“,
“Rakuten Super Points”service
Shop-centric
2006
Announced our vision
“Rakuten ecosystem”
,which connects online and offline
services.

10. We are making
merchants and
users
happy
Suppor
t
2008
First E-Commerce Expansion Overseas
2011
Achieved over 1 trillion yen
in gross transaction volume
and 38,000 online shops

11. As result…
Over 10,000
employees
2012
Official Start of "Englishnization"

12. Most
supported Web
site
in Japan
Brand
201
3
Web Brand
Research
2013
1. Rakuten Ichiba
2. Yahoo!Japan
3. Google
4. Amazon.co.jp
5. ECnavi
6. Kakaku.com
7. Youtube
8. Wikipedia
9. Suntory
10. KIRIN Beer
Researched by Nikkei BP consulting

13. Most
Innovative
Companies
in the world
World’s Most
Innovative Companies
1.
2.
3.
4.
Salesforce
Alexion Pharmacy
Vmware
Regeneron
Pharmaceuticals
5. ARM Holdings
6. Baidu
7. Amazon
8. Intuitive Surgical
9. Rakuten
ranked
10.Natura Cosmeticos
201
3
by Forbes
Innovatio

14. Many
fields
Global
Experience
Merit of
working
in Rakuten
as an
engineer

15. Many
fields
E-commerce
Online
travel
Portal
Auction
Global
Experience

16. Many
fields
E-banking
Credit
card
e-money
Securities
Global
Experience

17. Many
fields
WiFi
IP
Phone(app)
Coupon
Payment
Global
Experience

18. Many
fields
Web
research
Solar Panel
Horse
racing
Global
Experience
Insurance
toto

19. eBook
Video
streaming
Many
fields
Global
Experience
Digital
Contents
Logistics
and so on

20. We are also
the owner of
fields
No.1 baseball
team
Global
Many
Experience

21. “Englishfields nization”
Many
Case Study of
Harvard Business School
Changed our all internal language into
English
Global
Experience

22. Globalization
Singapore,
2
Malaysia,
UK, 3
4
Sweden, 4
Indonesia,
4
Norway, 5
Many
fields
Others, 46
China, 98
Thai, 5
Australia,
6
Canada, 7
Vietnam, 1
2 US, 18
Korea, 26
Global
India, 49
*As of end of
July/2013
Experience
0% 0%
JP
75%
NON-JP
25%
1,400 engineers

23. Many
Rapid
Expansion
fields
*Inves
t
Global
Experience
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013

24. Many
fields
Global
Experience
Global
Experience
Program
Development camp at
SF
with foreign
engineers

25. Many
Learning
Opportunities
fields
Global
Experience
Overseas Conference
(1 time/year)

26. Check out more
on our website!
We are waiting
for your talents!
Click here
http://global.rakuten.com/corp/car
eers/
Contact us: recruittech@mail.rakuten.com