PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Rakuten.com Shopping is looking for a motivated and driven individual to join our merchant acquisition team. This individual will be responsible for lead generation and acquisition of merchants to sell on our website platform in order to enhance the product assortment of our award winning Rakuten.com Shopping Marketplace. Our ideal candidate must be a self-starter and tenacious individual with an understanding of the e-commerce and a quick learner. An understanding of marketplace platforms such as Amazon or eBay is a plus. Must be very detail-oriented and foster strong working relationships, have good follow-up with potential partners, and see projects through from start to finish. The ideal candidate has the ability to flex your communication style to pitch our services to a small business owner as well as senior corporate executives. This person must not shy away from making cold-calls and be comfortable fielding technical questions, negotiating contract terms and extremely self-motivated to not just meet but exceed challenging growth goals. Occasional travel may be required.

QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

• BA required or equivalent experience
• Experience in e-commerce or other online business greatly preferred
• Knowledgeable with Microsoft Office Suite, especially Powerpoint and Excel
• Experience with Salesforce.com a plus
• Experience with major Marketplaces such as Amazon or Ebay

COMPANY SUMMARY:

With over 18 million customers, Rakuten.com Shopping is a leading retail marketplace, focused on providing its customers with a great shopping experience and a broad selection of retail goods at everyday low prices. Rakuten.com Shopping offers millions of products in over twenty product categories ranging across computer & electronics, entertainment & media, home & household essentials, food/wine, leisure, fashion and lifestyle goods. Rakuten.com Shopping is owned by Rakuten, Japan's leading Internet Company and the third largest e-commerce company in the world. With operations in 13 different countries, Rakuten's mission is to empower merchants, delight customers and to build a global commerce platform. Together, Rakuten and Buy.com represent one of the world's largest online retail marketplaces, offering consumers more than 90 million products from nearly 45,000 combined merchants around the globe. Hiring Organization: Human Resources

SUMMARY:

The perfect candidate will have an immediate connection to our five principles of success (Get Things Done, Complete Professionalism, Making and Executing Concrete Specific Action Plans, Maximize Customer Satisfaction, Speed! Speed! Speed!). This candidate will be extremely flexible and enjoy a "startup" mentality and environment that changes day to day and will "assume a positive, can do attitude" at all times. Candidates, who are autonomous, open to learning, collaborate well with others, establish procedure to increase efficiency will be at the top of our list.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintain and update the homepage weekly to keep it fresh and exciting at all times. Focus on increasing conversion, driving revenue and increasing AOS.
• Create and maintain strategic plans tied to merchandising and marketing strategies.
• Measure effectiveness of the homepage. Make appropriate recommendations to merchandise teams and management to improve functionality and design.
• Partner with Ecommerce Consultants (ECC's), merchants, creative group, and marketing in order to ensure effective content from inception through completion.
• Recap, analyze and interpret data/results to plan and forecast content that gets loaded on a weekly, monthly basis and ad hoc basis
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with Cross Functional team members ( i.e. Product Merchandising, Marketing, Creative, Web-Development)
• Regularly conduct and report competitive analysis of what other eCommerce companies are doing that is relevant to our space.
• Provide and implement ideas to improve the quality and integrity of the site.
• Maintain Key Performance Indicators (KPI) associated with the homepage and other event pages.
• Assist with development of internal process for the handling of all digital assets.
• Assist with First Party and Marketplace image assets to ensure they are normalized for site wide usage.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATION:

• Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year College or university; or 2-4 yrs plus related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to represent department and company in a positive and professional manner.
• Strong sense of urgency, follow-through and attention to detail a must.
• Experience with HTML and Adobe Photoshop a plus.
• Knowledge of creating and/or managing digital image and document management systems.
• Must be detail oriented with excellent analytical and problem solving skills. Professional verbal and written communicator. Ability to multi-task, stay organized, manages time wisely, works independently with little to no supervision, under pressure in a fast-paced environment is an absolute must.
• Must be available and willing to work extended hours as needed to meet business needs.
• Basic knowledge and understanding of the online retail industry is a plus.

Job Description:

We are looking for a Senior Database Administrator with 6+ years of SQL Server experience and who recently worked in a large scale and high availability environment. The DBA along with other team members will manage multiple Microsoft SQL Server database servers that support production e-commerce website and backend processes.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Overall high traffic Production DBA 24 X 7.
• Performance monitoring tuning capacity planning
• Assist development team with debugging and optimization of SQL queries and stored procedures.
• Strong TSQL and SSIS, Table Partition, Replication, Cluster, Always on.
• Install and configured SQL 2008R2, SQL2012.
• Database backup recovery Automation.
• Install, configure and maintain Microsoft SQL Server.
• Design, implement and maintain database objects.
• Review the database objects developed by the application owners for performance and integrity.

Requirements:

• BS Degree, computer science or relative degree.
• 6+ years database administration experience in Microsoft SQL Server.
• Good understanding of database design principles.
• Expertise in replication, backup/restore and performance tuning.
• Good understanding of web and web services principles.
• Ability to proactively identify, troubleshoot and resolve production database issues.
• Good communication skills, oral and written.
• Strong team approach to problem solving.

Company Benefits:

• Company Sponsored Healthcare (HMO/PPO options)
• Company covered Dental and Vision
• Catered lunches 1 day per week
• 401K matching