Senior Partnerships Manager

We are seeking an experienced professional to join our Partnerships team and drive our payment partnerships within financial partners locally and globally. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing key payment partners, including credit cards, digital wallets, konbini chains, carrier payments etc.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience and expertise in partnership management in card payments and non-card payments
• Comprehensive knowledge of the Japanese payment landscape
• Hands-on experience, ideally with card companies, konbini chains, digital wallet providers, etc.
• Familiar with the latest trends in the payments market in Japan and globally.
• Deep understanding of merchant perspectives.
• Experience in delivering new businesses by collaborating with external partners.
• High level of logical communication/negotiation skills and the ability to facilitate decision-making among diverse stakeholders both verbally and in writing.
• Business level proficiency in Japanese and in English both in speaking and writing.

Benefits

• Salary increase based on annual performance evaluation
• Profit sharing (paid twice a year)
• Hybrid system that allows both remote and office work
• Full social insurance (Kanto IT Software Health Insurance Association)
• Health checkups
• Sports club privileges
• Recreation facilities
• Language training (subsidized lesson fees of 10,000 to 20,000 yen/month)
• Self-study support (up to 100,000 yen per year)
• Leave policies aligned with diverse employee needs and lifestyles