Communications Lead Lending and Financial Access
Block, Inc. is a technology company building tools for economic empowerment, operating a portfolio of financial brands including Square, Cash App, Afterpay, TIDAL, Bitkey, and Proto. It serves sellers, consumers, artists, and bitcoin users through payments, banking, buy-now-pay-later, music streaming, and bitcoin self-custody and mining products.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
About Block, Inc.
Block, Inc. builds technology aimed at increasing access to the global economy. Its brands each unlock different aspects of the economy: Square makes commerce and financial services accessible to sellers; Cash App is an easy way to spend, send, and store money; Afterpay (Clearpay in the UK) helps customers manage spending over time; TIDAL is a music platform empowering artists as entrepreneurs; Bitkey is a self-custody bitcoin wallet; and Proto builds open, accessible bitcoin mining hardware and services. Block has been a long-time advocate for bitcoin, integrating bitcoin buying/selling and Lightning Network payments into Cash App and Square, funding open-source bitcoin infrastructure through Spiral (including the Lightning Development Kit), and engaging in bitcoin policy advocacy through groups like COPA, the Digital Energy Council, the Crypto Council for Innovation, and the Texas Blockchain Council. The company also runs a significant open source program (contributing to projects like Goose, an on-machine AI developer agent, OkHttp, Retrofit, gRPC, Envoy, and MySQL) and an AI research effort, including co-founding the Agentic AI Foundation with Anthropic and OpenAI. Block serves individual consumers, small and medium-sized businesses/merchants, artists, and developers.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead communications for lending and financial access initiatives. You will own communications strategy, develop corporate narratives, create storytelling campaigns, manage customer and seller storytelling programs, support executive communications and media engagement, and coordinate consistent external messaging across Block.
Requirements
- Corporate communications experience
- Financial services communications, fintech, or regulated-industry experience
- Exceptional writing and storytelling skills
- Proactive communications strategy
- Executive communications experience
- Media relationship management
- Cross-functional partnership skills
- Judgment in complex communications situations
Responsibilities
- Own communications strategy for lending and financial access initiatives
- Develop a cohesive corporate narrative
- Partner with Financial Services, Legal, Risk, Compliance, Underwriting, Product, and business teams
- Build storytelling campaigns for consumers and small businesses
- Create and manage an always-on communications program
- Support executive communications, media engagement, speaking opportunities, and business milestones
- Coordinate consistent lending and financial access narratives across Corporate Communications
Benefits
- Remote work
- Medical insurance
- Flexible time off
- Retirement savings plans
- Modern family planning
