As a Technical Program Manager focused on strategic business initiatives, you'll use your organizational skills and deft human-centered leadership style to affect change across Guidance. From finance to supply chain to employee systems, you will help accelerate delivery of technical programs at scale by guiding teams, making data-driven decisions, managing risks, and communicating with executives and partners. Guided by a human-centered approach to change, and the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion, the TPM keeps stakeholders informed, engaged, and proud to be a part of the Block community. 

You will:

• Have knowledge of global e-invoicing / fiscalization obligations and/or experience working with system updates or implementations to ensure compliance
• Manage strategic and organizational programs from launch to closure, including resource allocation, scope/schedule/budget management to ensure delivery
• Partner with leads and product managers to ensure projects deliver the intended business benefits and goals
• Manage risks, and decisions to improve delivery predictability
• Remove impediments for the project teams
• Contribute to the maturation of processes to simplify future delivery execution
• Manage communication of progress/status with team members
• Lead with curiosity and a commitment to process improvement

Must have:

• 2+ years of technical project management experience in solution development using either Waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Experience and comfort in managing initiatives that are fully remote
• Familiarity with leading cross-functional projects and interact at all levels
• Exposure to executive-level meetings
• An ability to distill issues into solvable and actionable tasks
• Experience with data, process, and concept visualization tools
• Previous roles in a high growth, tech environment
• Experience with pushing boundaries and questioning the status quo

You’ll sweep us off our feet if:

• You can make things happen, across a large organization spread out around the world, in quick fashion while knowing when to push back
• You think and act strategically; you create strategies for our organization that align with the company’s strategies and lead to the achievement of wider business priorities.
• You make sound judgments by using objective financial and business analyses to evaluate the returns and risks of business choices.
• You build and sustain trusting, collaborative relationships and alliances across functional, organizational, and geographical boundaries to achieve goals.
• You like digging into data and are excited about solving complex challenges.
• You’re comfortable influencing others, managing stakeholders, getting buy-in from leadership, and communicating clearly.
• You are a skilled active listener, excel at summarizing information, and identifying key take-aways and areas of focus.
• You’re a natural project manager, you are organized, plan, follow-through, and communicate.
• You are passionate about fostering healthy communication, inspired leadership, effective management and outstanding teamwork.

• You have lots of experience using G-Suite tools and SmartSheets

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, based solely on the core competencies required of the role at hand, and without regard to any legally protected class.

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page.

Perks

We want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:

• Healthcare coverage
• Retirement Plans
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Wellness perks
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time off
• Learning and Development resources

Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.