A global fintech company is seeking a Senior Growth Marketing Specialist to accelerate user growth and digital payment adoption in Japan.
This role combines growth marketing, data analytics, user engagement, and partnership management, with a strong focus on digital payments, digital wallets, travel, and cross-border commerce. You will develop and execute data-driven strategies designed to improve customer acquisition, retention, engagement, and repeat usage across the Japanese market.
Working closely with product, technology, UX/UI, marketing teams, and external partners, you will take ownership of growth initiatives from strategy through execution while adapting regional programs for Japanese consumers.
Key Responsibilities
An international fintech and digital payments company providing financial technology and payment solutions across multiple global markets.
The company operates within a rapidly evolving digital commerce ecosystem, connecting consumers, merchants, and partners through innovative payment technologies. Its international business provides opportunities to work across digital payments, travel, cross-border commerce, and consumer fintech while collaborating with teams and partners across Asia.
Why You'll Love Working Here
This role combines growth marketing, data analytics, user engagement, and partnership management, with a strong focus on digital payments, digital wallets, travel, and cross-border commerce. You will develop and execute data-driven strategies designed to improve customer acquisition, retention, engagement, and repeat usage across the Japanese market.
Working closely with product, technology, UX/UI, marketing teams, and external partners, you will take ownership of growth initiatives from strategy through execution while adapting regional programs for Japanese consumers.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyze travel, digital payment, and user behavior trends across Japan and Asia to identify growth opportunities.
- Develop strategies to improve user acquisition, retention, engagement, and repeat usage.
- Plan and execute integrated online and offline marketing campaigns, promotions, and events.
- Partner with travel, retail, and lifestyle businesses to increase digital payment adoption and customer activity.
- Use customer insights, campaign data, and market analysis to identify new growth opportunities.
- Track marketing and user performance to support data-driven optimization of growth initiatives.
- Coordinate cross-functional projects with product, technology, UX/UI, marketing, and external partners.
- Localize regional marketing programs and campaigns for the Japanese market.
- Support growth initiatives across digital wallets, payments, travel, and cross-border commerce.
- 6+ years of relevant professional experience.
- Experience in growth marketing, user growth, marketing operations, product operations, or integrated marketing.
- Experience developing and executing customer acquisition, engagement, or retention initiatives.
- Strong analytical skills with experience using data and customer insights to support marketing decisions.
- Strong project management experience across multiple campaigns or initiatives.
- Bachelor's degree.
- Strategic and commercially minded approach to growth and marketing.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders, priorities, and projects simultaneously.
- Data-driven mindset with the ability to translate insights into actionable growth initiatives.
- Strong communication and coordination skills in an international business environment.
- Proactive approach with the ability to take ownership from strategy through execution.
- Japanese: Fluent
- English: Fluent
- Experience in fintech, digital payments, digital wallets, or digital commerce.
- Experience with Online-to-Offline (O2O) services or marketing initiatives.
- Knowledge of Japan's digital payments and consumer fintech ecosystem.
- Experience working with travel, retail, lifestyle, or merchant partners.
- Exposure to cross-border payments, international commerce, or inbound travel.
- Experience localizing regional or global marketing campaigns for Japanese consumers.
- Experience collaborating with product, technology, and UX/UI teams.
An international fintech and digital payments company providing financial technology and payment solutions across multiple global markets.
The company operates within a rapidly evolving digital commerce ecosystem, connecting consumers, merchants, and partners through innovative payment technologies. Its international business provides opportunities to work across digital payments, travel, cross-border commerce, and consumer fintech while collaborating with teams and partners across Asia.
Why You'll Love Working Here
- Take ownership of user growth and digital payment adoption initiatives in Japan.
- Work across growth marketing, payments, digital wallets, travel, and digital commerce.
- Develop and execute campaigns from initial strategy through implementation and optimization.
- Collaborate with major brands, merchants, and international business partners.
- Gain exposure to regional growth and marketing projects across Asia.
- Strengthen your expertise in customer acquisition, retention, engagement, and data-driven marketing.
- Work closely with product, technology, UX/UI, and marketing teams.
- Build your career within an international fintech company expanding its digital payment ecosystem.
Job ID JN -092026-2009404
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