Senior Strategic Partner Development Manager, Payments (English, Japanese)

2 Months ago • 10 Years + • Business Development

Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Strategic Partner Development Manager, Payments (English, Japanese) at Google will foster enduring alliances with key players in the Japanese payments ecosystem (payment networks, banks, issuers, acquirers, processors, merchants) to support Google’s payments initiatives. Responsibilities include developing and managing complex strategic partnerships, driving partner engagement strategy and execution, identifying and maintaining partnership pipelines, negotiating agreements, and collaborating with cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, gTech, Finance, Legal, Compliance). The role requires fluent English and Japanese communication, strong negotiation skills, and experience in the financial services or e-commerce sector in Japan. The candidate will represent Google at industry forums and contribute to Google's community and operational improvements.
Must have:
  • 10+ years in business development/partnerships
  • Fluent English & Japanese
  • Experience with financial institutions
  • Negotiating complex agreements
  • Cross-functional team collaboration
Good to have:
  • Experience in Japan's e-commerce ecosystem
  • Knowledge of digital payments & loyalty programs
  • Ability to influence without authority

Job Details


Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in business development, partnerships, or management consulting.
  • Ability to communicate in English and Japanese fluently as this is a customer-facing role that requires interactions with local and international stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience driving results across technical and business domains in a matrixed organization.
  • Experience working in or with the financial services sector or the e-commerce ecosystem in Japan.
  • Experience negotiating complex partnerships agreements with financial institutions and merchants.
  • Knowledge of digital payments, loyalty ecosystems, and the financial industry.
  • Ability to influence without authority, including thought-leadership, partnership, relationship building and management skills, with internal stakeholders and external partners.
  • Ability to work autonomously, in a team, and within ambiguous, constantly-evolving environments.

About the job

The Payments team's goal is to make payments simple, helpful, and inclusive around the world. Google Pay Japan team's mission is to bring the best of this experience to Japan consumers as well as to introduce Japan first experience in the form of universal, rewarding payments touchpoint that can be used by anyone, anywhere. As a Payments Partnership team, we build partnerships to enable reliable, cost efficient, and secure commerce experience across all Google products.

In this role, you will be expected to foster enduring alliances with our partners, which includes payment networks, financial institutions, credit card issuers, digital wallet and loyalty providers, regulators, digital processors, and merchants to support Google’s payments initiatives. You will also represent Google at industry forums and groups to bring best practices and market insights to our product team.

Strategic Partner Development Managers work with cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, gTech, Finance, Legal, Compliance) to assess, develop, discuss, onboard, and manage strategic partnerships that enable our payment products (Google Pay and Google Wallet). This includes but is not limited to the partnerships around eMoney providers, credit card issuers, eWallet (code payment) providers, payment processors, merchants, etc.

The Global Partnerships organization is responsible for exploring new opportunities with Google's partners. Google’s Global Partnerships team works with a wide range of partners to bring the best of Google to power their business. The Global Partnerships team supports Google’s own Product teams with essential partnerships to help Google’s user experiences in advertising, Search, Assistant, Maps, Travel, Shopping, Payments and more. Teams create product-enabling partnerships, go-to-market strategies and incubate business growth for a variety of products.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and manage complex strategic partnerships with key players in the ecosystem and drive executive-level engagement with key partners across the Japanese payments ecosystem (payment networks, banks, issuers, acquirers, processors, merchants).
  • Drive partner engagement strategy and execution for the market, including the development of go-to-market documentation in collaboration with key internal stakeholders.
  • Identify and maintain pipelines and tracking documents, communicate key updates to leadership and cross-functional teams. Develop, discuss, and execute term-sheets and agreements with partners in a fast changing business setting.
  • Drive cross-functional/cross-regional engagement with teams including Strategy, Finance, Legal, Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Operations in order to deliver on key product area objectives.
  • Drive community contributions to improve and sustain our culture and operations, making Google a better place to work.

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