Regulatory Program Owner, Cash App Investing
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 8/23/2026
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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
Take ownership across multiple broker-dealer supervisory functions, including communications reviews, registered person oversight, compliance advisory, governance, regulatory examinations, and AI-enabled compliance process improvement.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in broker-dealer compliance, regulatory operations, or a related supervisory function at a FINRA-registered firm.
- Active FINRA Series 7, Series 24, and Series 63 registrations preferred, or ability to obtain within 120 days of hire.
- Demonstrated proficiency with generative AI tools for drafting, analysis, review, and automation, including evaluation of AI outputs for accuracy and risk.
- Direct experience with communications supervision under FINRA Rules 2210 and 3110.
- Familiarity with Smarsh or comparable communications surveillance platforms.
- Experience supporting or responding to FINRA or SEC examinations.
- Excellent written communication skills for regulatory responses, compliance memos, and governance artifacts.
- Comfort owning outcomes across multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment.
- Intellectual curiosity and willingness to experiment with evolving AI tools for compliance challenges.
Responsibilities
- Own broker-dealer communications reviews, including pre-approval of retail communications under FINRA Rule 2210 and supervision of internal communications.
- Own certain registered person oversight responsibilities, including employee supervision.
- Provide compliance coverage across multiple areas within a cross-functional coverage model.
- Support compliance advisory for product and business priorities.
- Contribute to governance activities including board reporting, policy maintenance, and compliance program documentation.
- Assist with regulatory examination and inquiry responses, including document production and narrative drafting.
- Use AI tools in daily execution and identify opportunities to automate and improve compliance processes.
Benefits
- Remote work
- Medical insurance
- Flexible time off
- Retirement savings plans
- Modern family planning
