Product Writing Intern, Health

  • Intern

Company 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 app, bringing a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow, and save to our millions of monthly active users. With a mission to redefine the world's relationship with money by making it more relatable, instantly available, and universally accessible, at Cash App you'll have the opportunity to make a real-world impact with your career.

 

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

We are looking for a Product Writing Intern to join our Writing team. Our focus is to create world-class experiences for our customers. We pride ourselves on rethinking established paradigms and bringing creative solutions into the financial space.

 

Product Writing Interns are given the opportunity to take on real and impactful projects, usually from ideation to production. This includes collaborating with other writers and cross-functional partners, understanding the customer and problem space, exploring and converging on potential solutions, presenting to stakeholders, and developing strong instincts and skills along the way.

 

Health is a team that exists to create a holistic Cash App experience that fosters the trust, safety, security, and support of our customers and their money. We make sure they can access their money when they need it. We help protect them from fraudulent activity. We keep them informed about what’s happening with their account. And, we make it easy for them to get support. As a Product Writing Intern on Health, you’ll have ample opportunity to have an impact in one of these areas. 

 

 


Please submit a deck or portfolio of work with your application that showcases your writing process from exploratory stages through execution – this can include passion projects, as well as school projects. If your portfolio site requires a password, please provide us with it in your application or on your resume. Thank you!

Qualifications

 

  • We welcome an inclusive mixture of early-career students that have a passion and purpose for Product Writing and/or related fields. Whether you are studying for a traditional 4-year degree, completing a creative boot camp/program, or self-taught and looking to make a career transition, we want to see your portfolio!  

 

You Have:

 

  • Strong design thinking fundamentals
  • Solid understanding of common product writing principles
  • Familiarity with the product development process
  • Ability to partner with research, design, product, engineering, and other core disciplines to create a well-rounded and elegant customer experience
  • Ability to work within a style guide, flexing when needed
  • Generous dose of imagination, creativity, curiosity, and empathy
  • Bias towards action and taking initiative
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • No ego, open-minded, growth mindset

 

Cash App internships are 12 weeks and available for US Summer 2023

 

Please submit a deck or portfolio of work with your application that showcases your writing process from exploratory stages through execution – this can include passion projects, as well as school projects. If your portfolio site requires a password, please provide us with it in your application or on your resume. Thank you!

 

Additional Information

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 the candidate's work location and may be may be modified in the future.

Zone A: USD $43.00
Zone B: USD $40.85
Zone C: USD $38.70
Zone D: USD $36.55

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. 

Benefits include the following:

  • Healthcare coverage
  • Retirement Plans including company match 
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program
  • Wellness programs, including access to mental health, 1:1 financial planners, and a monthly wellness allowance 
  • Paid parental and caregiving leave
  • Paid time off
  • Learning and Development resources
  • Paid Life insurance, AD&D. and disability benefits 
  • Perks such as WFH reimbursements and free access to caregiving, legal, and discounted resources 

This role is also eligible to participate in Block's equity plan subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies, and may be eligible for a sign-on bonus. Sales roles may be eligible to participate in a commission plan subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies. Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.

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, 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. 

Learn more about our efforts to promote inclusion and diversity at block.xyz/inclusion

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

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.

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