Regulatory Examination Manager
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.
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
About the Role
You will lead federal bank examinations for Square Financial Services and other Block affiliates. You will act as the primary contact for federal regulators, coordinate examination responses across stakeholders, manage workstreams from initial requests through remediation, and maintain regulatory and examination knowledge across cycles.
Requirements
- 8+ years of direct experience in regulatory examination management or regulatory affairs in financial services
- Experience with federal bank examinations
- Experience managing FDIC examinations from the bank side, including preparation, examiner communication, and post-examination follow-through
- Experience with OCC examination and oversight frameworks preferred
- Experience building and maintaining working relationships with regulators
- Familiarity with bank partnership models and related regulatory obligations
- Experience coordinating cross-functional examination responses
- Organizational and project management skills
- BA/BS required
Responsibilities
- Lead federal bank examinations of Square Financial Services, including FDIC and Utah holding-company examinations
- Manage examinations of Block and its affiliates across federal agencies
- Serve as the primary contact for federal regulators during and between examination cycles
- Coordinate stakeholders to maintain examination readiness, respond to regulator requests, and support regulatory approvals
- Lead examination workstreams from the First Day Letter through post-examination remediation
- Maintain institutional knowledge of regulatory history and examination records
Benefits
- Remote work
- Medical insurance
- Flexible time off
- Retirement savings plans
- Modern family planning
