About the Role
This position is responsible for the planning and commercialization of new B2B businesses utilizing satellite communications, including AST SpaceMobile. The mission is to create new communication experiences and business models for areas not sufficiently covered by conventional terrestrial networks, such as disaster response/BCP, mobility, IoT, video, and tourism. You will be involved in the entire process from market exploration to commercialization.
Responsibilities
- Market, industry, and customer challenge research and definition of target use cases.
- Service planning in areas such as disaster response/BCP, mobility, IoT, video, and tourism.
- Business design including business plans, revenue models, and pricing/service terms.
- Alliances and joint business development with major companies and technology partners.
- Project management from PoC planning and promotion to commercialization.
- Coordination with internal departments such as Sales, Network/Technology, Legal, Finance, and Operations.
- Development of peripheral new businesses and services such as 5G SA, Private 5G, cloud, and AI/IoT devices.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional experience.
- Practical experience in B2B new business development, service planning, business planning, consulting, project management, or sales planning.
- Experience in building hypotheses based on customer challenges and driving projects forward by involving internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to gather information, organize issues, and create outputs necessary for decision-making, even in highly uncertain situations.
- Willingness to learn and deepen understanding of unknown technologies and markets.
- Practical experience in domains such as satellite communications, telecommunications, 5G, or IoT.
- Experience in alliances with major corporations, joint business development, or partnership promotion.
- Experience in launching new services from PoC to commercialization.
- Experience in formulating business cases such as business plans, revenue models, and pricing design.
- Experience in driving projects with global teams or overseas partners in English.
Skills
- Satellite communications
- Telecommunications
- 5G
- IoT
- AI
- Business planning
- Service planning
- Project management
- Consulting
- Sales planning
- Business development
- Market research
- Customer challenges
- Stakeholder management
- Information gathering
- Decision making
- Technology learning
- Market learning
- Alliance building
- Joint business development
- Partnership promotion
- New service launch
- Business case formulation
- Global project management
- English communication
Location
- Futako Tamagawa Rise Office, 2-21-1 Tamagawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-career hires
About the Company
- Rakuten Group aims for growth in the global market by providing innovative services in the telecommunications and IT industries.
- Focusing on new business development to empower companies by expanding B2B services.
- Aim to strengthen B2B mobile services and grow them as a pillar of the business.
- Capturing the accelerated adoption of DX (Digital Transformation) in enterprises and providing innovative services that leverage mobile technology.
