Senior Business Resilience Program Manager

Block; United States; Remote; USD 168,000 - 297,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Medical insurance

Flexible time off

Retirement savings plans

Modern family planning

Job summary

Block is seeking a Senior Resilience professional to operate and mature its global resilience program, covering business continuity, disaster recovery, crisis management, and regulatory compliance. The role requires translating resilience requirements into actionable tasks, communicating risk pragmatically, and guiding owners through testing and remediation.

The ideal candidate will improve workflows, administer resilience tooling, and build scalable templates and self-service mechanisms that

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience operating or improving global resilience or related risk programs.
• Knowledge of impact analysis, dependency mapping, recovery strategies, testing, remediation, governance with standards.
• Strong project management, organizational, and partnership skills.
• Excellent communication and analytical judgment for executive audiences.
• Comfort using AI, automation, data analysis, and reporting tools.
• Relevant professional certification such as DRI/BCI or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Identify resilience risks across critical services, functions, technology, and dependencies.
• Develop and maintain current, testable continuity and disaster recovery plans.
• Coordinate resilience exercises, report findings, and track remediation.
• Assess third-party continuity and recovery capabilities and gaps.
• Communicate resilience posture and decisions to governance forums and Boards.
• Partner with regional entities (UK, EU, Canada) to align global practices.
• Improve resilience workflows using AI, automation, dashboards, templates, and self-service tools.

Skills

Resilience management

Business continuity

Disaster recovery

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder communication

AI/Automation

Education

ISO 22301 certification

Tools

Dashboards

Resilience tooling

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.

The Role

Block’s Business Resilience is part of the Security Governance Risk and Compliance team. The Business Resilience helps ensure that critical products, services, operations, and supporting technology can continue through disruption and recover within expected timeframes. The team partners across business, technology, risk, compliance, legal, regional entities, and third-party teams to identify resilience risks, validate recovery capabilities, support governance expectations, and drive practical remediation.

This role will help operate and mature Block’s resilience program across business continuity, disaster recovery, crisis management, operational resilience, third-party resilience, testing, reporting, and regulatory compliance support. The role requires someone who can translate resilience requirements into clear business and technology actions, communicate risk in a practical way, and support accountable owners through testing, remediation, and governance.

The ideal candidate is also comfortable improving how resilience work gets done. They should be able to identify manual or repeatable workflows, support AI-enabled and automation opportunities, improve reporting and dashboards, help administer resilience tooling, and build scalable templates, evidence processes, and self-service mechanisms that reduce friction while improving quality, auditability, and regulatory confidence.

You Will

• Identify resilience risks across critical services, business functions, technology, and dependencies, including risks introduced by business, regulatory, or industry changes.
• Develop and maintain current, testable business continuity, disaster recovery, and crisis management plans aligned with recovery objectives, strategies, and resource needs.
• Coordinate resilience exercises and recovery tests, report findings, and partner with accountable owners to track remediation through completion.
• Assess third-party continuity and recovery capabilities, identify gaps, and support remediation.
• Communicate resilience posture, open risks, and decisions needed to governance forums, senior leaders, and Boards, and support audit, regulatory, customer, and RFP requests.
• Partner with regional entities, including the UK, EU, and Canada, to align global practices with local requirements and reduce duplication through shared controls, evidence, and reporting.
• Improve resilience workflows through AI, automation, dashboards, templates, and self-service tools, supporting requirements, testing, adoption, and troubleshooting with appropriate data, access, auditability, and human review controls.

You Have

• 6+ years of experience operating or improving global resilience, business continuity, disaster recovery, crisis management, or related risk programs, ideally in financial services or regulated technology.
• Strong knowledge of impact analysis, dependency mapping, recovery strategies, testing, remediation, and governance, with experience applying relevant standards or regulatory expectations (i.e. ISO22301, BS11200, FFIEC, EBA, FCI, CBI, or RPAA).
• Strong project management, organizational, and partnership skills, with the ability to manage deadlines and dependencies and drive cross-functional follow-through without direct authority.
• Excellent communication and analytical judgment, with the ability to translate complex risks and requirements into practical actions for technical, business, executive, and Board-level audiences.
• Comfort using AI, automation, data analysis, and reporting tools, with the ability to learn and administer new platforms, document processes, and translate stakeholder needs into workflow improvements.
• A relevant professional certification, such as those from DRI International or the Business Continuity Institute, or equivalent practical experience.

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

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.

While there is no specific deadline to apply for this role, U.S. roles are typically open for an average of 55 days before being filled by a successful candidate. Please refer to the date listed at the top of this job page for when this role was first posted.

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 this resource. 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.

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