Principal Product Designer, Block
UI Design Systems
$228.7-343.1k
Eligible to participate in Block's equity plan subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies
Financial services ecosystem
Job no longer available
Financial services ecosystem
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$228.7-343.1k
Eligible to participate in Block's equity plan subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create better tools to help everyone access the economy.
Role
Who you are
- At least 12+ years of relevant professional experience, with 3+ years in building and maintaining design systems
- A portfolio that shows design systems you have created or largely contributed to
- Experience as a contributor to multiple high impact projects
- Proven visual design skills that value the craft and quality of a user experience (hierarchy, layout, interactions, etc.)
Desirable
- You enjoy socializing a design system across an internal organization. You care about partnering and collaborating effectively through documentation, office hours, and pairing with fellow designers
- You have experience building clear processes of how to support partner teams in adopting and contributing to the design system
- You care about your craft, and strive to improve quality of designs at scale
- You have a technical understanding of how to design across various breakpoints, devices, and locales, and can bridge the gap between design and code
- You can quickly iterate and communicate ideas across various levels of fidelity, and can receive and provide feedback constructively
- You understand your way around code, even if a basic level
- You’re passionate about creating inclusive, accessible products
- You have experience creating engaging illustrations, icons and animations that bridge the brand identity, user experience and business needs
What the job involves
- As a Principal Product Designer on the UI Systems team at Square, you will create components, libraries, and patterns and provide support for the central design system, Market
- The Market Design System is used throughout all of our merchant- and customer-facing products and surface areas
- The UI Systems team focuses on the functional layer of our design systems and how it extends our overall brand
- You’ll collaborate closely with peer Product Designers, Brand Designers, Engineers and Technical Program Manager to work on initiatives to improve the experience for merchants using Square products, and improve how product teams design and build day-to-day
- Your designs will help unlock the potential of all product teams at Square through our design system
- You will report to the Design Lead
Our take
Block is a financial services technology company comprising of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD. Its biggest brand, Square, offers hardware and software for small to medium-sized businesses enabling them to manage the entire payment lifecycle. It functions similarly to Shopify and Stripe, but has paired online payment processing with physical devices such as registers, payment terminals, and mobile card readers.
The business was originally founded as Square in 2009 by Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame. Already well-established with SMEs all over the globe, Square has significantly benefited from the increased demand for mobile payment systems. Its order management feature remains a go-to tool for small businesses that otherwise didn't have the proper infrastructure in place when demand for home delivery surged.
Square rebranded as Block in December 2021, with the Square brand name remaining in place for their seller business. The company has since come under fire for its security practices, facing lawsuits in relation to a major breach of CashApp user data, and in 2024 announced plans to reduce its workforce in order to cut costs. Despite these setbacks, there is every chance the business will move past this, though it may take some time to rebuild trust in its product.
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Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Healthcare coverage (Medical, Vision and Dental insurance)
- Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account
- Retirement Plans including company match
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Wellness programs, including access to mental health, 1:1 financial planners, and a monthly wellness allowance
- Paid parental and caregiving leave
- Paid time off (including 12 paid holidays)
- Paid sick leave (1 hour per 26 hours worked (max 80 hours per calendar year to the extent legally permissible) for non-exempt employees and covered by our Flexible Time Off policy for exempt employees)
- Learning and Development resources
- Paid Life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jack Dorsey
(CEO)Having studied at and dropped out of New York University, Jack founded Twitter in March 2006, where he has served as CEO since. He co-founded Square with Jim in February 2009, and has remained its CEO ever since.
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