Programmatic Ads Product Lead, Block

• 8+ years of product management experience in ad technologies, including programmatic monetization, RTB, or header bidding
• Deep knowledge of Demand Side Platform and identity resolution tech
• Experience with, and understanding of, omnichannel advertising ecosystem
• Track record as a product owner who has shipped high-impact 0 to 1 experiences
• Product sense and design sensibilities to deliver features with the craft and consumer-grade simplicity of Cash App
• Strong customer empathy and experience shaping product strategy & execution based on customer needs
• Outstanding leadership skills; the ability to inspire team members and drive collaborative decision-making across geographically dispersed cross-functional teams
• Exceptional prioritization and stakeholder management skills, particularly working with compliance/legal and external partners in a highly regulated industry
• Excellent oral and written communication, narrative storytelling, and influence skills that instills confidence and buy-in from senior leadership
• An analytical mindset with the ability to distill and communicate complex data to make decisions, determine roadmap prioritization, and understand and communicate customer and business impact
• Comfort operating in a fast-paced and dynamic environment with rapid development cycles

Desirable

• We’re seeking an exceptional Product Lead to define the strategy and build transformative, highly complex, “0 to 1” features.
• We have an ambitious set of multi-year bets and need an experienced product leader to turn ideas into a concrete roadmap.
• You will be the de facto team leader to achieve results in the face of setbacks or roadblocks, but also be an IC rolling up your sleeves to lead day-to-day execution
• Own the ideation, strategy, design, implementation of 0 to 1 products and infrastructure
• Lead a full stack development team (engineers, designers, researchers, data scientists, business operations) to ship innovative and incredible experiences at scale
• Lead product strategy, customer research, opportunity sizing, planning, scoping, and prioritization to build the highest impact products or improvements for our customers (merchants and consumers)
• Drive effective cross-functional partnership, constantly inspiring and influencing executives, and colleagues in legal, compliance, support and machine learning to deliver on goals and maximize impact
• Evangelize product capabilities internally and externally, fostering collaboration with integration partners
• Have a focus on building out data solutions and our ad platform through a combination of homegrown and partner solutions
• Define the framework and metrics to measure the impact of the team; deeply understand the core drivers and monitor progress
• Manage the roadmap to deliver on this strategy, balancing short term goals with long term vision
• Structure our team’s processes to enhance execution velocity, making tactical tradeoffs between business priorities and resources
• Work with cross functional team members distributed across the four US times zones and Melbourne, Australia

• 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

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.