Engineering Program Manager
- 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
TPMs at Cash App are passionate about being of service through cross-functional collaboration between engineering teams, demonstrating ownership & accountability, solving chaos with structure and helping us land sound technical outcomes as we further our mission of economic empowerment. We focus on the details, explore creative solutions, overcome obstacles and never settle for status quo.
Our mission as TPMs is to get things done. To accomplish this, we must wear hats in various shapes and sizes.
In this role you will:
- Lead the optimization of the current processes to meet our needs for a wide array of content types
- Guide development and implementation of necessary tooling, frameworks, processes and procedures
- Partnering with Product Managers, Engineering Managers and Technical Leads to decompose ambiguous technical problems into tracks of work, with clear and prioritized deliverables, and owners identified
- Maintaining program visibility by communicating effectively through:
- Roadmaps and quarterly plans
- Celebration of wins
- Highlighting risk
- Cultivate a team culture of high agency, execution, and customer focus
- Build partnerships with stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Design and identify opportunities to help teams scale faster and efficiently in expansion efforts
- Manage external vendors for maximum quality, speed, and cost efficiency
- Help to develop and maintain strategic plans, team roadmap(s), operations readiness plans, and regular status updates to help teams scale
Qualifications
- 8+ years of broad technical experience including but not limited to infrastructure, network, systems and applications
- Experience managing and releasing complex, high-quality products and product features in partnership with product teams
- Experience establishing processes, supporting teams, developing relationships, and managing end-to-end for a portfolio of concurrent programs
- Impact oriented who can identify how initiatives and effort can move the needle for the organization
- Ability to influence various stakeholders including technical leaders and executive management
- Data and Detail oriented Analytical thinker with ability to drive initiatives to completion
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, based solely on the core competencies required of the role at hand, and without regard to any 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.
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.