Regulatory Program Lead Canada
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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About the Role
You will lead compliance for Block's regulated Canadian entities. You will execute the annual compliance plan, oversee AML/ATF, sanctions, RPAA, consumer protection, privacy, and payment card obligations, manage regulatory commitments and remediation, prepare Board materials, lead cross-functional programs, and develop AI-enabled compliance solutions.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive experience in compliance, financial crime, or regulatory affairs
- Payments compliance experience at a regulated payments entity
- Senior compliance leadership experience
- Canadian AML/ATF legislation including PCMLTFA and FINTRAC guidance
- RPAA
- Payment Card Industry Code of Conduct in Canada
- Consumer protection frameworks including FCAC, PIPEDA, and CASL
- Canadian sanctions regimes including SEMA and UN sanctions
- Board-level compliance reporting
- Regulatory examinations and supervision
- Payment systems and money services businesses
- Payments-specific financial crime typologies and controls
- AI tools for regulatory analysis, drafting, and process automation
- People management and stakeholder engagement
- CAMS or ICA certification
Responsibilities
- Serve as Regulatory Program Lead for Canadian regulated entities
- Act as CCO designee in governance forums, Board meetings, and regulatory engagements
- Execute the annual Canada Compliance Plan
- Manage regulatory change, monitoring, testing, risk assessments, and policy reviews
- Run AML/ATF, RPAA, PCI, consumer protection, and privacy compliance programs
- Support FINTRAC registration, regulatory examinations, and audits
- Track regulatory commitments, audit actions, and findings
- Drive issue remediation through closure
- Maintain compliance risk assessments, policies, and governance documentation
- Prepare Board and governance committee materials
- Lead cross-functional regulatory programs
- Improve processes through automation and AI-enabled compliance solutions
- Coordinate compliance training and regulatory awareness materials
Benefits
- Remote work
- Medical insurance
- Flexible time off
- Retirement savings plans
- Modern family planning
