Square Payments team is responsible for every Peso that moves through our bank partners, card networks, and Square's internal platforms and systems. The Payments team's mission is to make our customer’s experience across taking payments, closing the sale, and getting paid "remarkable", efficient, and cost effective. To that objective, Square must operate against a complex backdrop of industry partners to encourage flexibility, new standards, and openness to Square's innovation, products and services. The Payments team plays an integral role in crafting a diverse spectrum of solutions and capabilities for our customers, overseeing foundational industry and regulatory relationships and also the daily operations for incoming and outgoing payments.  

This role will be key to our success in Square's market expansion strategy. They'll be responsible for key industry relationship oversight and coverage, executing on our global payments strategy. They will be a recognized leader in the industry with a strong track record of success and collaboration.  Focus of the role will be managing our relationship roadmap with acquirers, banks, card networks and industry bodies operating across the region. Critical to the role will be to continuously optimize these relationships and their performance to reduce costs and maximize flexibility to launch new products in Mexico. The position will be important to Square's  industry relationship engagement strategy, representing Square's Mexico business to regulators and industry influencers who are foundational to Square's success. 

You will:

• Build and manage strategic relationships with payment industry partners in Mexico
• Define and execute on a comprehensive payments strategy for Square in the rapidly evolving mobile payments and card acceptance space
• Strengthen the influence and market position of Square's business and brand while fostering joint marketing and promotion opportunities with industry stakeholders
• Oversee, negotiate and execute on partnership opportunities and commercial discussions to enable our financial capabilities in Mexico
• Expand our partner and product footprint in Mexico, accelerating the distribution of Square offerings
• Understand Square's competitive position and implement programs to further and improve payments products, services and strategic objectives
• Lead and support management for Square’s strategic industry initiatives in Mexico, including fostering the partner engagement required to enable new products and platforms
• Maximize current partnerships through detailed and proactive account management, working with key industry partners, suppliers, and industry associations to define, iterate and enable new products in Mexico
• Condition the expectations and dynamics of key industry influencers while managing external influences to optimize for the impact on Square's role in the ecosystem

• Deep Experience and solid understanding of the payment industry and its current evolution across Mexico
• An ability to lead cross-functional projects and interact at all levels with diverse roles including engineers, business partners and executive leadership
• Deep analytical skills that enable analysis of nascent industry movements
• Written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Strong relationship building skills coupled with the ability to develop consensus
• Experience working  with multinational teams, ideally with some experience in working with US HQ companies and fintech organizations. 
• Understanding  of payments industry trends, the Payment Facilitator business model and demonstrated performance in a regulated payments or electronic money institution preferred

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Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD54566975, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD54566975 is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.