Job Description
Square is operated by an incredible team that is on a mission to make commerce easy for all types of businesses around the world. As a Senior Product Manager based in Japan on the team, you will be responsible for defining multi-year product strategy for your market, coordinating and executing projects, and optimizing the experience for sellers in Japan. Our approach at Square is both customer-focused and data-driven. You will need to dig in to deeply understand our customers and their needs, define and analyze data, and guide our world-class team to move fast and ship remarkable solutions.
In this role, you will also collaborate closely with designers, engineers, analysts, marketers, and other cross-functional team members within the organization to ensure that our product reaches customers and provides a remarkable, delightful experience. If you’re looking to change the way small businesses operate and drive impact at a high-growth company, you will find this role compelling, challenging, and rewarding.
You Will:
- Define Square product strategy for Japan, that is cohesive with Square’s overall global strategy/direction, and optimize our customers' experience using a variety of inputs, and clearly articulate rationale and data behind decisions
- Deeply understand our customers and their needs, and guide our world-class team to ship remarkable solutions
- Identify opportunities for Square and our customers, propose and evaluate initiatives that will be most impactful, promote them across the organization, and execute these initiatives from ideation through release.
- Expertly and openly collaborate with and influence cross-functional partners and stakeholders throughout Square
- In collaboration with engineering, marketing, and analytics partners, lead the end-to-end success of projects from discovery to launch
- Serve as the point person for your product area to leadership and across the organization
- Influence key stakeholders throughout Square to align intent, resources, and prioritization
Qualifications
- 8+ years of product management experience
- bi-lingual in Japanese / English
- Vision: You've formed, gained buy-in, and driven key strategies shaping the direction of your team.
- Results: You're excellent tactically, with a proven track record of shipping simple, elegant products at scale.
- Analytical skills: You have a great ability to absorb and apply data to your decision making.
- Customer empathy: You have experience shaping product direction and execution based on customer needs.
- Hustle: You’re scrappy, able to push through obstacles, and ready to roll up your sleeves wherever needed.
- A collaborative approach: Experience driving alignment with cross-functional partners in a complex organization.
- Natural curiosity and obsession with the details
- Experience working through problems with high ambiguity and without a definitive answer.
- Developed industry-leading products that have gained a strong followership and product loyalty.
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