Executive Business Partner

Block; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Block in New York is seeking an experienced Executive Business Partner to amplify the impact of senior leaders through strategic partnership, operational excellence, and scalable systems.

You will manage complex calendars, travel, expenses, and executive workflows while shaping operating rhythms and cross-functional collaboration, leveraging AI and automation to increase leverage and reduce manual work across ExecOps.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years as EA/Chief of Staff supporting senior leaders in tech.
• Proven ability to act as trusted strategic partner with strong judgment.
• Exceptional calendar, workflow, travel, and executive operations management.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and administrative partnership for 1-2 senior executives, balancing day-to-day operational excellence with long-term executive effectiveness.
• Proactively manage complex calendars, travel, expenses, meeting cadence, and executive workflows with strong judgment, discretion, and attention to shifting business priorities.
• Design and maintain executive operating rhythms, including leadership meetings, staff meetings, business reviews, planning cycles, all-hands, offsites, and follow-up mechanisms.
• Drive adoption of AI, automation, and workflow tools to increase executive leverage, reduce manual work, improve information flow, and create scalable practices for the executive and broader team.
• Ensure executives are prepared and effective by synthesizing context, managing information flow, identifying decision points, tracking follow-through, and surfacing risks or gaps.

Skills

Executive partnership

Calendar management

Strategic thinking

Discretion

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Google Workspace

Slack

Job description

Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams - People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more - provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more. Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block.

Who We Are

Most Executive Operations functions move information. ExecOps at Block is built to generate it. We sit at the intersection of every major initiative - seeing what no individual executive can see simultaneously. We don't just move information to leaders; we route what we observe back into the system: naming what's stuck, surfacing misalignment, correcting drift before it calcifies. A centralized function compounds that intelligence - patterns that span organizations, signals that surface before they become problems. This is not simply a coordination function. It is an intelligence function.

Job Description

At Block, the Executive Operations team amplifies the impact of executives and their teams by keeping priorities clear, decisions moving, and information flowing across the organization. We are looking for a highly trusted, strategic Executive Business Partner that carries responsibility beyond a single executive partnership.

In this role, you will operate as a strategic partner, helping shape operating rhythms, manage complex priorities, improve workflows, and create leverage across teams. You will combine exceptional administrative execution with strong business judgment, proactive problem-solving, stakeholder influence, and the ability to build scalable systems that improve executive and team effectiveness.

At a principal level, this role architects scalable support models, designs repeatable frameworks used across ExecOps, mentors other members of the function, and leads improvements that strengthen how ExecOps supports leaders across business unit

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and administrative partnership for 1-2 senior executives, balancing day-to-day operational excellence with long-term executive effectiveness.
• Proactively manage complex calendars, travel, expenses, meeting cadence, and executive workflows with strong judgment, discretion, and attention to shifting business priorities.
• Design and maintain executive operating rhythms, including leadership meetings, staff meetings, business reviews, planning cycles, all-hands, offsites, and follow-up mechanisms.
• Drive adoption of AI, automation, and workflow tools to increase executive leverage, reduce manual work, improve information flow, and create scalable practices for the executive and broader team.
• Ensure executives are prepared and effective by synthesizing context, managing information flow, identifying decision points, tracking follow-through, and surfacing risks or gaps.
• Build strong relationships across cross-functional partners, and the Executive Operations team to improve alignment, communication, and execution.
• Anticipate needs, resolve ambiguity, and independently drive solutions in fast-moving, sensitive, or high-stakes situations.
• Identify and improve systems, workflows, and processes that create leverage for executives and their teams, including reporting, goal tracking, meeting hygiene, documentation, and stakeholder communication.
• Own or support high-impact executive programs, team moments, offsites, planning processes, and cross-functional initiatives from planning through execution and follow-up.
• Capture and scale institutional knowledge by creating clear documentation, templates, playbooks, or repeatable practices that improve continuity and decision-making.
• Contribute to the centralized Executive Operations team by sharing best practices, mentoring peers, and helping raise the bar for executive support across Block.
• For Principal-level candidates: architect scalable support models, lead cross-functional process improvements, and coach others on executive partnership, stakeholder management, and strategic operating systems.

Qualifications

• 8-12+ years of experience as an Executive Assistant, Executive Business Partner, Administrative Business Partner, Chief of Staff partner, or similar role supporting senior executives; experience in fast-moving technology or product‑led companies preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a trusted strategic partner to senior leaders, with strong judgment, discretion, and ability to manage sensitive information.
• Exceptional calendar, workflow, travel, and executive operations management skills, including the ability to prioritize across competing demands and shifting business needs.
• Strong business acumen and ability to