Staff Data Analyst
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 develop data strategies and lead high-impact workstreams to deliver actionable analytics for compliance. You will design ETL pipelines, validate source data, perform analysis, and create visualizations to communicate findings to regulators and internal partners. You will collaborate with legal, engineering, and product stakeholders to translate regulatory expectations into measurable program improvements, coach others on compliance analytics, and connect insights to operational change.
Requirements
- 8+ years related experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or 6+ years with a Master’s degree, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of Compliance or AML experience
- Expert-level SQL skills
- Expert in ETL development
- Expertise with data analysis and visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Looker)
- Proven ability to solve large, complex problems without clear answers
- Experience defining problems and managing projects in a fast-paced environment
- Strong written and verbal communication and data visualization skills
- Impeccable attention to detail
- Preferred: CAMS or other AML certification
- Preferred: Experience in FinTech or consulting or with financial crimes compliance systems
- Preferred: Experience with automation using Python, R, or Prefect
Responsibilities
- Lead data strategy for regulatory engagements, including ETL development, source data validation, and analysis
- Connect regulatory expectations and commitments to Compliance and Product roadmaps to influence strategy
- Analyze raw data and communicate the impact of regulations, policies, or environmental changes
- Collaborate with legal, engineering, and product partners to inform strategic builds of compliance program elements
- Translate insights to action through clear written and verbal communication and visualization
- Educate, coach, and influence stakeholders on compliance analytics and program effectiveness
- Lead multiple high-impact workstreams and manage levels of abstraction across audiences
Benefits
- Remote work
- Medical insurance
- Flexible time off
- Retirement savings plans
- Modern family planning
