Block is hiring a Head of Growth Partnerships, Square in 20244 S&M - Marketing - Square Partnerships — Bay Area, CA, United States of America. The overview below is synthesized from the employer posting on block.xyz: factual requirements and scope are preserved, but prose is rewritten with editorial context. Verify details and apply via the employer link.
Since we opened our doors in 2009, the world of commerce has evolved immensely, and so has Square. After enabling anyone to take payments and never miss a sale, we saw sellers stymied by disparate, outmoded products and tools that wouldn't work together.
So we expanded into software and started building integrated, omnichannel solutions – to help sellers sell online, manage inventory, offer buy now, pay later functionality, book appointments, engage loyal buyers, and hire and pay staff. Across it all, we've embedded financial services tools at the point of sale, so merchants can access a business loan and manage their cash flow in one place.
Today, we are a partner to sellers of all sizes – large, enterprise-scale businesses with complex operations, sellers just starting, as well as merchants who began selling with Square and have grown larger over time. As our sellers grow, so do our solutions.
The Role
Day-to-day scope for the Head of Growth Partnerships, Square as described in the posting:
Square is seeking a Growth Partnerships Lead to design, negotiate, and scale global partnerships that fuel seller acquisition and business growth. These partners include technology platforms, service providers, marketplace, referral networks, saas companies where there's mutual benefit through lead generation, co-marketing, embedded distribution, and creative product integrations that unlock new seller segments for Square and Block's overall platform.
This is a highly visible role at the intersection of business development, growth, and go-to-market strategy. You will set the vision for how Square partners expand our reach, lead a team of partnership managers, and drive measurable growth outcomes for the business.
Key Responsibilities
Day-to-day scope for the Head of Growth Partnerships, Square as described in the posting:
- Strategy & Vision: Define a global strategy for referral and growth partnerships, aligning with Square's GTM and seller acquisition priorities.
- Sourcing & Negotiation: Identify, evaluate, and secure high-impact partners; structure complex, multi-party commercial agreements – including revenue share, referral fees, co-investment arrangements and milestone-based incentives that align partner economics with Block's growth objectives, lead executive-level negotiations and close deals that accelerate growth.
- Growth & Accountability: Map and unlock growth channels within each partner's ecosystem, deliver measurable results in lead generation, seller acquisition, and pipeline contribution via strategic partnerships.
- Partnership Development: Identify creative high-value ways to partner across partners' unique businesses – finding synergies between partner ecosystems and Block's platform that create differentiated value for both parties' customers.
- Activation & Scaling: Launch partnerships and scale existing partnerships with clear GTM plans, co-marketing initiatives, and integrated roadmaps where relevant.
- Executive Relationship Management: Build and sustain C-level relationships with partners, ensuring long-term value creation.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner with Product, Marketing, Sales, and Legal to ensure smooth execution and maximum impact.
- Measurement & Optimization: Define and track KPIs for partnership success, adjusting strategy as needed to drive continuous growth.
- Team Leadership: Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of partnership managers across key global markets.
Qualifications
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
- 10+ years in business development, strategic partnerships, or growth leadership, with 7+ years in senior/team lead roles.
- Experience partnering with or inside large financial services, consumer platforms, retail, SMB, business services, marketplace or healthcare businesses – with a working understanding of their distribution mechanics and internal incentives.
- Proven track record of sourcing, structuring, negotiating complex commercial deals, co-marketing commitments and scaling growth-driving partnerships. Strong negotiation and relationship management skills, with extensive experience working at the executive level. Demonstrated ability to connect partnership strategy directly to measurable seller acquisition and revenue outcomes.
- Ability to structure partnership economics, evaluate business cases, and use data to prioritize and optimize the portfolio.
- Experience building and leading global teams.
- SaaS, fintech, or payments background strongly preferred.
We're working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class.
Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S.
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$239,600—$359,400 USD
Zone D:
$239,600—$359,400 USD
Application Guidelines
Candidates may submit up to 9 active applications within a 60-day period. Reapplications to the same role are accepted 90 days after a previous application has been reviewed.
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Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) builds technology to increase access to the global economy.