Compensation Strategy & Program Lead
Block, Inc. builds technology intended to increase access to the global economy. Its portfolio includes commerce, financial services, payments, buy-now-pay-later, music streaming, bitcoin self-custody, and bitcoin mining products.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
Projects
About Block, Inc.
Block, Inc. operates a portfolio of technology and financial products including Square for commerce and financial services, Cash App for spending, sending, and storing money, Afterpay for managing spending over time, TIDAL for music streaming, Bitkey for self-custody bitcoin management, and Proto for bitcoin mining products and services. Block also develops AI tools, open-source software, bitcoin payment infrastructure, and related financial services for consumers, sellers, businesses, developers, and bitcoin users.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own major compensation program portfolios and develop scalable frameworks for their delivery. You will translate compensation rules into automated workflows and self-service resources, establish governance guardrails, collaborate with peers and operations partners, and advise leadership on pay equity, talent markets, and organizational design.
Requirements
- Experience designing iterating and scaling enterprise compensation programs end to end
- Strong compensation consulting experience
- Ability to work independently while maintaining cross-functional alignment
- Ability to solve edge cases through policy redesign automation and self-service tooling
- High proficiency in quantitative modeling and compensation metrics
- Substantial compensation experience
- Fluency with modern compensation planning HRIS and data and analytics tooling
Responsibilities
- Own and deliver assigned compensation program portfolios
- Collaborate with peer Program Leads on global compensation philosophy and delivery
- Translate compensation rules into automated workflows and self-service resources
- Design governance guardrails and delegation-of-authority frameworks
- Advise senior leadership on talent market positioning pay equity and organizational design
- Evaluate compensation metrics through quantitative modeling
- Partner with data operations and tooling teams
Benefits
- Remote work
- Medical insurance
- Flexible time off
- Retirement savings plans
- Modern family planning
