Head of Financial Operations, Japan

Company Description At Square, our purpose is to build tools that help sellers start, run, and grow their businesses. What began as payments has evolved into a broad ecosystem of commerce solutions — including software, banking, financial services, and omnichannel capabilities designed to work together seamlessly. Japan represents one of the most strategic growth opportunities for Square globally. It is a complex, highly competitive market with enormous potential across commerce, hospitality, retail, and services. We believe the opportunity ahead is significant — but winning in Japan will require bold commercial leadership, operational intensity, and a relentless focus on execution. We are entering the next phase of growth in Japan with the ambition not just to participate in the market, but to build a category-defining business. The Role Square is seeking a Head of Sales for Japan to build and rapidly scale our commercial business in-market. This leader will be responsible for accelerating revenue growth, increasing market penetration, and building a high-performing sales organization capable of winning at scale in one of the world’s most important and demanding commerce markets. This is a builder role for a commercially driven operator who thrives in fast-growth environments and knows how to turn opportunity into execution. The ideal candidate combines deep enterprise and SMB commercial expertise with strong knowledge of the Japanese market, customer expectations, competitive landscape, and a strong bias for action. They know how to build strong teams, drive urgency, unlock new growth vectors, and push organizations to move faster and execute at a higher standard. This role requires a leader who is highly motivated, commercially aggressive, and execution-oriented — someone who embraces ambitious goals, operates with intensity, and can help establish Square as a market leader in Japan. What You’ll Lead Growth & Commercial Expansion Own overall revenue growth an

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Overview WPP Media Japan is revolutionizing the advertising industry through the power of data and artificial intelligence. At WPP Media, our vision for the Influencer Solutions team (GOAT) is to become the leading data-driven influencer consultancy. Purpose of Role The Head of Influencer Solutions is a senior leadership role responsible for the strategic direction, commercial success, and operational excellence of the agency's influencer marketing practice in Japan. This role combines strategic thought leadership with senior client stewardship, leading a multi-disciplinary team across account management, strategy, and campaign delivery to drive significant growth and establish the agency as the leading influencer solutions partner in the market. The Head of Influencer Solutions is accountable for financial ownership, team development, and defining the future of influencer marketing for our clients and the agency. Key Responsibilities The below are the key responsibilities for this role: Strategic Leadership & Vision Define and execute the long-term strategic vision for the influencer solutions pr

This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster. Team Lead, Sales We’re looking for an inspirational leader to join our APAC Sales function and lead a team of high-performing enterprise sales managers in Japan. You will be leading and coaching a team of sales managers based in Tokyo, while reporting to the Head of Sales for Japan. As a critical member of the Japan commercial leadership team, you will form the sales strategy for one of our most dynamic and fast-growing markets, while collaborating with other regions and cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate is a natural commercial leader and networker with a consultative mindset. We are looking for an experienced leader who thrives in a fast-paced, international environment and has excellent communication and people management skills. You excel at strategic thinking, commercial execution and leveraging your enterprise sales skillset to coach the team. What you’ll do: Lead one of our Sales teams in Tokyo and own the end-to-end commercial success of your team Collaborate on and drive the vision and strategy for the JP sales team, creating local focus while aligning with global standards Engage with the largest strategic opportunities, leading executive relationships and helping the team navigate long sales cycles to win new customers Adopt and influence the Adyen sales methodology and Selling Process and driv

The opportunity We’re building our reseller channel in Japan from the ground up. We’re looking for a strategic leader to decide where to focus, turn market opportunities into a clear plan, and drive the changes needed to make that plan work. You’ll roll up your sleeves, work across teams to shape our route to market, test ideas, remove barriers to growth, and build a channel that can scale. You’ll have the freedom to define the approach - and the responsibility to adapt it as you learn. Strategy and Leadership Set the strategy for growing our reseller channel in Japan, including which customer segments, partner types, and opportunities to prioritize. Turn the strategy into focused initiatives with clear goals, owners, and measures of success. Assess market potential and performance to decide where to invest, what to change, and when to scale. Design the commercial approach, including the partner proposition, incentives, sales model, and measures of partner success. Lead cross-functional work across sales, product, marketing, operations, and other teams to remove barriers to growth. Build the processes and capabilities needed to take the channel from an early-stage effort to a repeatable business. Share a clear view of progress, risks, and recommendations with senior stakeholders. Build and lead a team as the channel develops. Reseller channel Drive the development and execution of a holistic reseller strategy — from channel partners that drive new seller acquisition. Oversee Partner Managers in end-to-end partnership execution: business development, negotiation, launch, and ongoing management. Determine and prioritize the appropriate mix of partner benefits, incentives, and co-marketing/sales opportunities to secure high-value deals. Advocate for resellers while balancing Square's commercial goals and product roadmap. What you’ll bring 15+ Years of experience developing commercial or go-to-market strategy and delivering measurable growth. Experience in fintech, paym

Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI. At our core is the Celonis Context Model — which combines process data, business knowledge, and intelligence into a living digital twin of the enterprise that AI can actually understand, turning AI's operational blind spots into operational clarity. World's leading companies trust Celonis and its global ecosystem of partners to make their AI agents, people, systems, and processes work together, achieving transformational outcomes. We believe there's a massive opportunity to unlock global productivity and sustainability by giving AI the context to understand how every business process really works. Join our mission to make processes work for people, companies, and the planet. The Team The Celonis Ecosystem team builds and scales partnerships with Tech, Cloud, AI, and Professional Services firms to fuel Celonis’ non-linear growth. Within Japan, our primary focus is expanding collaboration with top-tier domestic System Integrators (SIs) such as NEC, Fujitsu, and ABeam, alongside our broader Consulting and Technology partners. We are hiring a Head of Ecosystems to develop and manage joint Go-To-Market activities, driving superior client value and scaling our partner landscape across the Japanese market. The Role Reporting directly to the Japan Country Manager with a dotted line to Global Ecosystems HQ, you will lead, structure, and expand Celonis’ partnership network in Japan. Your role centers on building high-trust relationships with key domestic SIs to define joint solutions, shape transformation programs, and influence strategic business opportunities. Success is evaluated based on joint business impact, thought leadership, pipeline generation, and the creation of scalable go-to-market strategies tailored to the Japanese enterprise landscape. The Work You’ll Do Strategy & GTM: Define and execute a holistic Go-To-Market plan prioritizing domestic Japanese SIs (e.g., NEC, Fujitsu, ABeam)

About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the role Japan is one of the most sophisticated enterprise technology markets in the world, and one where partners, not vendors, typically own the customer relationship. The Head of Partnerships, Japan will build and lead the team that makes Anthropic's partner ecosystem the primary route to Japanese enterprise. You will set the partner strategy for Japan, develop the team that executes it, and own the partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline, revenue and attach rate for the country. You will personally lead our most strategic partner relationships at the executive level while coaching your team to do the same across the GSI, regional SI, and reseller landscape. This is a player-coach role for an experienced partner leader who has built and scaled partner businesses in Japan before, ideally for a US technology company entering or growing in the market. You will work day to day with the Japan sales leadership and the in-region Applied AI team, represent Japan within Anthropic's International Partnerships organisation, and carry the voice of Japanese partners and customers into our global product and go-to-market decisions. Key responsibilities Lead and build the team Hire, develop and retain a high-performing Japan partner team spanning GSI, regional SI and reseller coverage, sized and structured to the market opportunity Set clear goals, territories and partner portfolios for each team member, and hold the team accountable to pipeline, revenue and attach-rate outcomes Establish the team's operating cadence: one-on-ones, weekly pipeline reviews, deal inspection, partner QBRs and quarterly business planning Coach the team o