Since we opened our doors in 2009, the world of commerce has evolved immensely, and so has Square. After enabling anyone to take payments and never miss a sale, we saw sellers stymied by disparate, outmoded products and tools that wouldn’t work together.

To solve this problem, we expanded into software and built integrated solutions to help sellers sell online, manage inventory, book appointments, engage loyal buyers, and hire and pay staff. Across it all, we’ve embedded financial services tools at the point of sale, so merchants can access a business loan and manage their cash flow in one place. Afterpay furthers our goal to provide omnichannel tools that unlock meaningful value and growth, enabling sellers to capture the next generation shopper, increase order sizes, and compete at a larger scale.

Today, we are a partner to sellers of all sizes – large, enterprise-scale businesses with complex operations, sellers just starting, as well as merchants who began selling with Square and have grown larger over time. As our sellers grow, so do our solutions. There is a massive opportunity in front of us. We’re building a significant, meaningful, and lasting business, and we are helping sellers worldwide do the same.

Clearpay has recently been acquired by Block Inc. Block is made up of Square, Clearpay, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL and TBD. One company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment.

This role sits within Technology Operations, which is a global operational team managing the service level of the Afterpay platform coordinating between technology teams (our internal vendors) and external vendors. This team is Technology's external customer layer, ensuring that customer and merchant SLAs are sustained throughout internal and external change.

As an Incident Manager you will be responsible for end-to-end coordination of both proactive and reactive change responses - deployments, rollbacks, migrations, scheduled maintenance, degradations, service interruptions and outages. You will coordinate both the resolution stream and the communication stream of incidents and service disruptions. This line of responsibility runs from first-line investigation and diagnosis through to incident management and on to post-incident review and closure.

You will be joining a global team of operators based in time-zones around the world as Afterpay builds out our 24 - 7 follow-the-sun service model.

You will be collaborating with a cross-section of internal engineering / product teams as well as external vendors in all areas of platform service. You will be a coordinator for customer and merchant teams, bridging the service gap between front-line teams and engineering.

Problem Management | Incident Management

• Managing the lifecycle of an incident, steering from detection through to response, restoration, remediation, resolution and closure.
• Coordinating between internal engineering teams and / or external vendor teams - collating alerts, monitoring and detection internally; raising, tracking and aging vendor tickets, cases and escalation externally.
• Coordinating communication streams on multiple tools like: Slack, PagerDuty and Zoom.
• Quantifying problem or incident footprint - geographic and service areas; dimensioning customers, transactions, merchants, duration etc. as required.
• Ensuring that post-restoration actions are correctly captured, tracked and completed.

Service Visibility

• Producing and contributing to the various incident, weekly and monthly reports and post incident reviews (PIRs).
• Supporting the service-related communication with vendors (internal /external) and partners - tracking vendors scheduled maintenance activity, deployments, changes and other interruptions.
• Developing and maintaining operational relationships across the organization – functional and global. Compliance, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Security etc.
• Maintaining and managing the change calendars - Deployments, Migrations, Changes, Maintenance, Campaigns, Promotions & Market Events

Service Evolution

• Continually grading service lines - settlement, payment, portal, checkout, app - by performance and maturity
• Continuing to enhance and evolve the operational and incident framework – system, process, assets and practices.
• Identifying areas of opportunity for incremental improvements in our operational framework and lead delivery through to the realization of those improvements.

Like us, you'll be inspired by our product. You'll get a kick out of seeing and feeling the impact of your work as more and more people gain financial freedom and retailers grow across the globe.

• 3+ years of experience as an Incident Manager
• 3+ years of experience in a client-facing / B2B environment where the operational / engineering world intersects with the commercial / tactical world.
• Operational and qualitatively minded with an analytical approach
• Committed to iteratively improving customer experience and enjoys having customer-facing responsibility
• Working knowledge in using operational toolsets in monitoring, logging, alerting and analytics space such as Splunk, SumoLogic, NewRelic, Amplitude, LaunchDarkly, VictorOps, PagerDuty, RunDeck, or OpsGenie
• Exposure to ticket or case management tools such as Zendesk, ServiceNow, Salesforce and JIRA.

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.