Federal Affairs Director
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 8/20/2026
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will develop and execute strategies for engaging federal policymakers, deepen relationships, track legislative and regulatory issues, and represent Block's policy positions across the federal government. You will engage elected officials, Congressional staff, regulatory agencies, and the Administration, maintain policy fluency, and develop responses to policy challenges.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in federal government relations
- Experience in financial services and technology sectors preferred
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication
- Ability to explain complex issues and policy positions
- Experience navigating complex policy issues
- Ability to adapt to changing timelines and prioritize effectively
- Experience working collaboratively across internal functions
- AI usage and interest in technology and innovation
- Impeccable ethics and high integrity
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute strategies to engage federal policymakers
- Engage with federally elected officials, Congressional staff, third-party groups, regulatory agencies, and the Administration
- Serve as a registered lobbyist for Block
- Engage policymakers on Capitol Hill and in the Administration
- Develop proactive engagement approaches with elected stakeholders
- Monitor financial regulation, consumer protection, trade, tax, digital assets, AI, machine learning, and privacy issues
- Track legislative and regulatory activity
- Develop strategies to achieve positive policy outcomes
- Develop responses to incoming policy challenges
Benefits
- Remote work
- Medical insurance
- Flexible time off
- Retirement savings plans
- Modern family planning