Global Operations Excellence & Business Operations Lead Bay Area, CA,

Global Operations Excellence & Business Operations Lead

Remote Bay Area, CA, US

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.

Square is looking for an experienced operations excellence and business operations leader to build the operating system for global seller onboarding. Reporting to the Head of Global Onboarding Operations, this role will create the metrics, planning processes, reporting cadences, capacity models, and continuous improvement mechanisms that help the onboarding organization scale with discipline.

This role closely partners with Onboarding Operational leaders and is designed to create leverage across the full organization. The right candidate is highly analytical, structured, and action-oriented, with the ability to turn operational complexity into clear plans, dashboards, routines, and recommendations.

• Build and run the core operating cadence for global onboarding, including weekly, monthly, and quarterly business reviews.
• Create consistent reporting, decision forums, action tracking, and escalation mechanisms across regions and operating models.
• Partner with leaders to turn strategic priorities into measurable plans, milestones, and execution routines.
• Own the global onboarding KPI framework, including activation, time-to-value, NPS, cost-to-serve, SLA adherence, utilization, and quality.

• Lead capacity planning and workforce modeling across first-party, vendor, and BPO delivery motions in partnership with regional and partner operations leaders.
• Partner with Finance on budget inputs, forecasts, headcount planning, vendor spend analysis, cost-to-serve models, and ROI assessments.
• Support annual and quarterly planning by translating volume, productivity, service quality, and cost assumptions into operational plans.

• Identify friction in onboarding workflows, handoffs, tooling, data quality, and escalation processes.
• Drive process standardization, playbook development, documentation, and continuous improvement initiatives across regions.
• Partner with Product, Enablement, Analytics, and Operations teams to improve systems, automation, and operational effectiveness.
• Drive the adoption of AI-enabled workflows across the onboarding organization by identifying high-impact use cases, standardizing best practices, and helping teams apply AI to improve quality, speed, consistency, and operational efficiency.
• Build playbooks,…