diff --git a/cpp/src/arrow/flight/sql/example/acero_server.cc b/cpp/src/arrow/flight/sql/example/acero_server.cc
index ce1483cb8c3f4..201234c52632c 100644
--- a/cpp/src/arrow/flight/sql/example/acero_server.cc
+++ b/cpp/src/arrow/flight/sql/example/acero_server.cc
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
 #include <mutex>
 #include <unordered_map>
 
+#include "arrow/compute/exec/exec_plan.h"
+#include "arrow/compute/exec/options.h"
 #include "arrow/engine/substrait/serde.h"
 #include "arrow/flight/sql/types.h"
 #include "arrow/type.h"