Product Lead, Controls

Block, Inc.; California (MO); Remote; USD 168,000 - 297,000; Full time

Job summary

Block, Inc., a leading fintech company, is seeking a Product Lead for the Controls team to enhance customer trust and optimize products at scale. This role focuses on building a seamless user experience for Cash App’s core offerings, requires strong leadership, and encourages innovative thinking in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

Remote work options

Medical insurance

Flexible time off

Retirement savings plans

Modern family planning benefits

Qualifications

• Experienced in managing product teams and leading innovative projects.
• Able to balance competing priorities and meet business objectives.
• Strong analytical skills for decision making and roadmap prioritization.

Responsibilities

• Own the experience of how Cash App manages customer restrictions.
• Lead a fullstack team in product strategy and implementation.
• Drive high-impact initiatives from inception through execution.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Problem-Solving

Adaptability

Education

8+ years of product management experience

Understanding of fintech industry

Job description

It all started with an idea at Block in 2013. Initially built to take the pain out of peer-to-peer payments, Cash App has gone from a simple product with a single purpose to a dynamic ecosystem, developing unique financial products, including Afterpay/Clearpay, to provide a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our 47 million monthly active customers. We want to redefine the world’s relationship with money to make it more relatable, instantly available, and universally accessible.

Today, Cash App has thousands of employees working globally across office and remote locations, with a culture geared toward innovation, collaboration and impact. We’ve been a distributed team since day one, and many of our roles can be done remotely from the countries where Cash App operates. No matter the location, we tailor our experience to ensure our employees are creative, productive, and happy.

Check out our locations, benefits, and more at cash.app/careers.

The Role
Cash App’s top strategic business priority is Trust: building deep trust with our customers allows us to deepen our financial relationship with them, introduce them to new products, increase our share of wallet for each service, and expand our customer base. The Trust team’s mission is to create a holistic Cash App experience that fosters the trust, safety, security, and support of our customers and their assets - all while expanding access within the Cash App ecosystem. One of the core pillars of Trust is the Controls team, whose mission is to build a scalable controls infrastructure for Cash App’s full suite of products and to make their restrictions experience transparent and understandable for customers.

Our product leaders are customer-obsessed, collaborate intensely with other key disciplines, and always make decisions with an eye towards Cash App’s business as a whole. Successful product leaders are ambitious and resourceful - willing to go the extra mile to empower our teams, and deliver value to our customers.

As the Product Lead for the Controls team, you will own the core experience of how Cash App manages customer restrictions - from the user experience all the way through to the platform infrastructure. You will be responsible for the team’s vision, strategy, roadmap prioritization, and customer and business impact; and will drive high impact initiatives from inception through execution. These are foundational user experiences and services that enable or prevent access to Cash App products, so providing an excellent end-to-end experience is of utmost importance. This role will require optimization of current features through customer research, analysis, experimentation, and product validation, as well as the creativity to dream up and build new features to improve our user experience to expand financial access to millions of customers around the world.

In this role you will:

• Own the ideation, strategy, design, implementation, and improvement of products and infrastructure to help us build trust with our customers
• Lead a full stack development team (engineers, designers, researchers, data scientists, business operations) to ship innovative and incredible experiences at scale
• Lead product strategy, customer research, opportunity sizing, planning, scoping, and prioritization to build the highest impact products or improvements for our customers
• Structure our team’s processes to enhance execution velocity, making tactical tradeoffs between business priorities and resources
• Drive effective cross-functional partnership, constantly inspiring and influencing colleagues in legal, compliance, support, machine learning, and other product areas to deliver on goals and maximize impact
• Define the framework and metrics to measure the impact of the team; deeply understand the core drivers and monitor progress
• Manage the roadmap to deliver on this strategy, balancing short term goals with long term vision.
• Develop the strategy for internal tools, shared systems, and processes that govern all of Cash App’s customer engagement.

You have:

• Product management expertise (8+ years): A seasoned product manager with a strong familiarity of both platform infrastructure / technical products combined with a proven track record of delivering customer experiences at scale
• Leadership: Outstanding leadership skills; the ability to inspire team members and drive collaborative decision-making across geographically dispersed cross-functional teams
• Cross-functional collaboration: Exceptional prioritization, business judgment in balancing competing demands and priorities, and stakeholder management skills, particularly working with Compliance, Legal, Machine Learning and Customer
• Support in a regulated industry
• Communication: Excellent oral and written communication, narrative storytelling capabilities, and organization skills that instill the confidence of senior leadership
• Business acumen and analytical focus: An analytical mindset with the ability to distill and communicate complex data to make decisions, determine roadmap prioritization, and understand and communicate customer and business impact
• Adaptability and Problem-Solving: Comfort operating in a fast-paced and dynamic environment with rapid development cycles
• Complexity: A hunger to tackle complicated and impactful customer and business problems

Highly preferred:

• A passion for rules-based products and understanding stakeholder / technical complexities of platform products
• Experience in the fintech industry, ideally in the Identity, Controls & Limits space with demonstrated knowledge of industry best practices

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 also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.

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. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page .

Block will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

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.

To find a location’s zone designation, please refer to thisresource . If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information.

Zone A:

$198,000 — $297,000 USD

Zone B:

$188,100 — $282,100 USD

Zone C:

$178,200 — $267,400 USD

Zone D:

$168,300 — $252,500 USD

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.Check out our other benefits at Block.

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.Squaremakes commerce and financial services accessible to sellers.Cash Appis the easy way to spend, send, and store money.Afterpayis transforming the way customers manage their spending over time.TIDALis a music platform that empowers artists to thrive as entrepreneurs.Bitkeyis a simple self-custody wallet built for bitcoin.Protois a suite of bitcoin mining products and services. Together, we’re helping build a financial system that is open to everyone.