Product Lead, New Initiative
- Full-time
Company Description
Today, Cash App has thousands of employees around the world with a culture geared toward creativity, collaboration and impact. We’ve been a distributed team since day one, and continue to value working across time zones and continents both remotely and in our Cash App offices.
Our offices are great, but many of our roles can be done remotely from the countries where Block operates. We tailor our experience to champion our employees’ creativity and productivity wherever they are.
Check out our locations, benefits and more at cash.app/careers.
Job Description
At Cash App we are constantly building new financial services to advance our mission of economic empowerment. We’re looking for a customer-obsessed Product Manager for a newly formed team focussed on an exciting initiative in the financial services space. Our product leaders are deeply customer-focused, collaborate intensely with other key disciplines, and always make decisions with an eye towards Cash App’s business as a whole. Successful product managers are ambitious and resourceful -- willing to do whatever it takes to empower our teams, and deliver as much value as possible to our customers.
In this role you will:
Drive the strategy, tactics, and delivery timelines for product features
Identify opportunities and develop perspectives on the most impactful things we should be building for our customers, and then they go do the work required to build those experiences
- Drive effective cross-functional partnership; constantly inspiring and influencing colleagues in Operations, Marketing, Brand, Business, Legal, Compliance, Support, and other Product areas in order to deliver on their goals and maximize impact
Overall, if you are looking for a role where you can have massive impact and a wide scope, you’ll find this role compelling, challenging, and rewarding.
Qualifications
5+ years of product management or equivalent experience
Passionate about Fintech
Strong customer empathy and experience shaping product direction and execution based on customer needs
Strong business sense and analytical skill
Ability to earn trust from and lead a high performing cross-functional team
A humble and scrappy get-it-done mindset; you’re resourceful and in your element going from 0 to 1
A hunger to tackle complicated and impactful product & business problems
Experience driving complex, cross-functional product initiatives in a successful way
Strong strategic thinking, problem solving, and logical structuring abilities
Comfort with ambiguity; the ability to independently lay out and test clear hypotheses, and solve problems without well-defined direction
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Additional Information
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 a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
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.
Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.