Partnerships Manager

The Role
We are looking for a Partnerships Manager to join the Square Japan Partnership team. You'll represent Square's brand in Japan and help establish local partnerships, engaging and negotiating deals across channel partners, integrated product partners, developers, agencies, and technology companies of all sizes. You will involve partnership sourcing, prospecting, negotiation, and working with cross-functional internal partners to scale up partner acquisition and bring new partners to our ecosystem. Reporting into the Head of Partnerships, Japan in Tokyo, this role can be based in our Tokyo office through a hybrid of in-office and remote working.
Square Japan partners include channel partners (organizations and agencies across banking and financial services, telecommunications and other partner types) and platform partners using Square API integrated third-party products (accounting and tax, form builders, booking and scheduling, items and inventory, delivery and orders, marketing and analytics, eCommerce, point of sale). Passionate about delivering meaningful financial services to small businesses, you will be motivated by the successful outcomes of customers, partners, and other teams.
You will be part of a growing team that needs your business development best-practices and experience. You will need to be well-versed on all the different possible ways new and growing channels/platforms can partner with Square, including both technical and business feasibility.
You Will

• Build and develop the Partnerships program in Japan.
• Sign many new Japan-based channel partners that refer in new sellers to Square, and product partners who complement our ecosystem of products.
• Manage necessary aspects of the partner lifecycle - from initial scoping and negotiation to prioritization and execution of strategic projects; financial assessment and forecasting; launching partners.
• Build deep relationships with Square teams and external partners to grow Square's relationships with strategic partners.
• Become a Square product expert - able to talk about Square's partnership strategy and platform ecosystem.
• Work with Product, Account Management, Support, and Sales teams to identify and engage potential Partners to enhance our product functionality and distribution.
• Work with Japan and global go-to-market functions such as Sales, Account Management, Customer Success and Marketing and work together with these to ensure the success of Square's Japanese Sellers and achievement of Partnerships goals.
• Represent the voice of the Japan partnerships program across Square globally.

You Have

• The ability to work with Japan-based sellers in Japanese (reading, writing and video meetings), and global Square colleagues in English (reading, writing and video meetings)
• 5+ years professional experience, ideally in strategic business development, product management, and/or partnerships experience, with experience in signing new partners
• Demonstrated experience in business development and partner management.
• Experience evaluating opportunities with regard to impact on strategy, brand, finance and operations
• Built successful relationships with external parties; worked with executives and senior leadership to explore new opportunities
• Managed projects with multiple stakeholders; set clear milestones and hold people (and self) accountable to goals
• A successful track record of managing complex deals and cross-functional projects
• Experience building and managing relationships with senior business leaders, both internally and externally
• Experience working cross-functionally with a range of teams, managing initiatives at scale and delivering on results
• Experience closing deals with partners and working with partner sales and marketing teams to generate new seller leads.
• Experience building a partnerships strategy at a long-established, or high-growth technology or product-driven company in Japan.
• Proven volume and velocity of deal closing experience.

Nice to Have:

• Experience working with Japanese banking and financial services, telecommunications.
• Experience working with cross functional teams (Sales, Account Management, Partner Engineering, Product, Partner Development) to help partners refer and integrate with Square.
• Understanding of API integration maintenance (e.g. fixing bugs, upgrading to new APIs if available).

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