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Head of Growth roles attract H-1B visa and O-1A sponsorship from U.S. startups and scale-ups. Most employers require a bachelor's degree in business, marketing, or a related field, and USCIS classifies this as a specialty occupation when the role demands strategic, degree-level expertise. For detailed occupation requirements, see the O*NET profile.
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Get Access To All JobsSince 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. Afterpay furthers our goal to provide omnichannel tools that unlock meaningful value and growth, enabling sellers to capture the next generation shopper, increase order sizes, and compete at a larger scale.
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. There is a massive opportunity in front of us. We're building a significant, meaningful, and lasting business, and we are helping sellers worldwide do the same.
The Role
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
- 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
- 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. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances. We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible.
Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Zone A:
$239,600—$359,400 USD
Zone B:
$239,600—$359,400 USD
Zone C:
$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.
Use of AI in Our Hiring Process
We may use automated AI tools to evaluate job applications for efficiency and consistency. These tools comply with local regulations, including bias audits, and we handle all personal data in accordance with state and local privacy laws.
Contact us here with hiring practice or data usage questions.
Every benefit we offer is designed with one goal: empowering you to do the best work of your career while building the life you want. Remote work, medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning are just some of our offering.
Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) builds technology to increase access to the global economy. Each of our brands unlocks different aspects of the economy for more people. Square makes commerce and financial services accessible to sellers. Cash App is the easy way to spend, send, and store money. Afterpay is transforming the way customers manage their spending over time. TIDAL is a music platform that empowers artists to thrive as entrepreneurs. Bitkey is a simple self-custody wallet built for bitcoin. Proto is a suite of bitcoin mining products and services. Together, we’re helping build a financial system that is open to everyone.
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. Afterpay furthers our goal to provide omnichannel tools that unlock meaningful value and growth, enabling sellers to capture the next generation shopper, increase order sizes, and compete at a larger scale.
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. There is a massive opportunity in front of us. We're building a significant, meaningful, and lasting business, and we are helping sellers worldwide do the same.
The Role
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
- 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
- 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. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances. We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible.
Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Zone A:
$239,600—$359,400 USD
Zone B:
$239,600—$359,400 USD
Zone C:
$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.
Use of AI in Our Hiring Process
We may use automated AI tools to evaluate job applications for efficiency and consistency. These tools comply with local regulations, including bias audits, and we handle all personal data in accordance with state and local privacy laws.
Contact us here with hiring practice or data usage questions.
Every benefit we offer is designed with one goal: empowering you to do the best work of your career while building the life you want. Remote work, medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning are just some of our offering.
Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) builds technology to increase access to the global economy. Each of our brands unlocks different aspects of the economy for more people. Square makes commerce and financial services accessible to sellers. Cash App is the easy way to spend, send, and store money. Afterpay is transforming the way customers manage their spending over time. TIDAL is a music platform that empowers artists to thrive as entrepreneurs. Bitkey is a simple self-custody wallet built for bitcoin. Proto is a suite of bitcoin mining products and services. Together, we’re helping build a financial system that is open to everyone.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Head Of Growth Jobs
Position yourself as a specialist, not a generalist
Head of Growth is most defensible as a specialty occupation when your background is rooted in a specific discipline, growth engineering, product-led growth, or performance marketing. Generalist framing weakens the H-1B petition and invites RFEs.
Align your degree to the role's core function
USCIS scrutinizes whether your degree field directly relates to the role. A degree in marketing, economics, computer science, or business administration maps clearly. An unrelated degree requires a stronger evidence strategy from your employer's immigration attorney.
Target companies with a sponsorship history
Startups and growth-stage companies sponsor this role regularly, but not all have done it before. Prioritize employers who have previously filed H-1B petitions, they understand the process and are less likely to withdraw an offer over complexity.
Document your track record with metrics
For O-1A consideration, quantified outcomes matter, pipeline growth, revenue attribution, user acquisition rates. Strong performance data supports an extraordinary ability claim and gives attorneys more to work with when building your petition.
Raise sponsorship early in the process
Head of Growth is a senior hire, and employers invest significant time in the search. Raising your visa status early avoids late-stage offer withdrawals. Most companies willing to sponsor will tell you upfront, it saves everyone time.
Understand the H-1B cap and lottery timing
Most Head of Growth roles are cap-subject H-1B positions, with the lottery in March for an October 1 start. If you need work authorization sooner, ask your employer about cap-exempt entities or O-1A as an alternative pathway.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Head of Growth role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
It can, but the job description needs to clearly require a specific bachelor's degree field, not just any degree. Roles framed around data analysis, growth engineering, or performance marketing with a required degree in a related discipline are more defensible. Vague job descriptions that accept any bachelor's degree weaken the specialty occupation argument and increase the risk of an RFE.
What visa types do employers typically use to sponsor a Head of Growth?
H-1B visa is the most common path. For candidates with a strong track record, significant revenue impact, published work, or industry recognition, the O-1A is worth exploring as a lottery-free alternative. Australians with the right qualifications may qualify for the E-3 visa. The best visa depends on your nationality, background, and how quickly you need to start.
How do I find Head of Growth jobs that offer visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lists Head of Growth roles specifically from employers open to sponsoring international candidates. Filtering by sponsorship willingness upfront saves significant time, most general job boards don't surface this information reliably, so you end up applying to roles where sponsorship was never on the table.
Does my degree field matter for Head of Growth H-1B sponsorship?
Yes. USCIS requires that the degree field directly relate to the duties of the role. Business administration, marketing, economics, statistics, and computer science are the strongest fits. If your degree is in an unrelated field, your employer's attorney may need to argue equivalency through a combination of education and work experience, which adds complexity to the petition.
Can a startup without prior H-1B experience sponsor a Head of Growth hire?
Yes, any U.S. employer with an EIN and legitimate business operations can file an H-1B petition, regardless of prior sponsorship history. The challenge is that first-time sponsors often underestimate the timeline, cost, and documentation required. If you're evaluating an offer from a sponsor-naive startup, confirm they've engaged an immigration attorney before accepting.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Head Of Growth jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.