Block

New York

Creative Director, Block

ON-SITE SENIOR
Posted about 1 month ago
$251,600 - $377,400
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Company snapshot

Block

Block is a company that consists of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, TBD, and foundational teams. They are focused on economic empowerment by creating tools to expand access to the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow businesses, Cash App redefin...

Information Technology & Services Technology Insurance Finance
HQ
Oakland, California, United States
Team size
10K-50K
Founded
2009

Quick Summary

Role Overview

This individual contributor role involves originating and executing brand platforms and campaigns for Cash App, Square, and Afterpay. You will lead project teams to set creative standards and carry ideas across film, social, and experiential mediums.

Key Responsibilities

  • Originate brand platforms and campaign ideas from concept to activation
  • Reposition brands while maintaining coherence across all surfaces
  • Maintain the integrity of creative ideas through final placement
  • Shape creative briefs alongside the embedded strategy team
  • Direct designers and writers on various creative projects
  • Collaborate with marketing and product leadership to launch work

Requirements Snapshot

  • Portfolio of led brand platforms and repositioning campaigns
  • Art direction background with strong visual judgment
  • Track record of setting creative vision and quality standards
  • Credibility with cross-functional leadership as a peer
  • Experience catching cultural shifts and applying them to work

Expected Impact

By originating big ideas and maintaining their integrity through to market, you will help redefine the global relationship with money for millions of users. Your leadership will ensure that brand platforms remain coherent and impactful across all product surfaces and cultural shifts.

A DesignJobs.World summary of the employer's posting, written to highlight scope, requirements, and fit (AI-assisted, human-reviewed). For full details, see the description below.

Compensation

$251,600 - $377,400

Job 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 ecosystem, developing unique financial products, including Afterpay/Clearpay, to provide a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our 50+ million monthly active customers. We want to redefine the world’s relationship with money to make it more relatable, instantly available, and universally accessible.

Today, Cash App has thousands of employees working globally across office and remote locations, with a culture geared toward innovation, collaboration and impact. We’ve been a distributed team since day one, and many of our roles can be done remotely from the countries where Cash App operates. No matter the location, we tailor our experience to ensure our employees are creative, productive, and happy.

The Role

Block's in-house creative team builds the brand platforms and campaigns behind Cash App, Square, and Afterpay. We're hiring a creative director who originates the big idea (brand platforms, repositionings, campaign concepts) and stays with it until it's in market.Strategy sits inside creative, so you shape the brief rather than answer it, then carry the idea across every medium it lives in: film, social, experiential, copy, and online and offline activations.

This is an individual contributor role. You'll lead project teams and set the creative standard.

You Will

  • Originate brand platforms and campaign-level ideas, and own them from concept through activation
  • Reposition brands, and keep the platform coherent across brand and product surfaces
  • Hold the idea intact from first cut to final placement
  • Shape the brief alongside an embedded creative-strategy team
  • Direct designers, writers, and production partners on the work
  • Work with marketing, product, and partnerships leadership to get campaigns made

You Have

  • A portfolio of work you led as a creative director: brand platforms, repositionings, campaigns, activations
  • An art direction background and the visual judgment to lead the idea in any medium
  • A track record setting creative vision and quality standards for a brand, while staying hands-on with the work
  • Credibility with cross-functional leadership as a peer
  • A history of catching cultural shifts early and putting them in the work
  • Experience carrying brand thinking across multiple products or business lines
  • Experience working in agencies, in-house, or both

To Apply

Submit your application along with a link to your portfolio. Be sure to include the password in your application if needed.

EEOC

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. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page.

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:
$251,600—$377,400 USD
Zone B:
$251,600—$377,400 USD
Zone C:
$251,600—$377,400 USD
Zone D:
$251,600—$377,400 USD

Application Guidelines

Candidates may submit up to 9 active applications within a 60-day period. Reapplications to the same role are accepted 90 days after a previous application has been reviewed.

Use of AI in Our Hiring Process

We may use automated AI tools to evaluate job applications for efficiency and consistency. These tools comply with local regulations, including bias audits, and we handle all personal data in accordance with state and local privacy laws. 

Contact us here with hiring practice or data usage questions.

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. Check out our other benefits at Block.

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.

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