Cash App is hiring: Principal Designer (San Francisco) in San Francisco

Principal Designer Cash App

Cash App, a product of Block, Inc., was created in 2013 to make peertopeer payments simple. Over time it has grown into a dynamic ecosystem that offers a range of financial productsincluding Afterpay/Clearpayso customers can send, spend, invest, borrow, and save. Cash App serves 57million monthly active customers worldwide, and our goal is to redefine how people relate to money so it feels relatable, instantly available, and universally accessible.

Driven by innovation, collaboration and impact, Cash App has thousands of employees working across office and remote locations. Because we were distributed from day one, many of our rolesincluding this onecan be performed remotely from the countries where Cash App operates. We tailor our experience to help all employees stay creative, productive, and happy.

About the Role

The Web team at Cash App takes a horizontal view of the Cash App experience, collaborating with brand, product and engineering partners to build nextgeneration experiences that power the future of Cash App. We are seeking an imaginative and driven designer to lead the visual design, motion and evolution of our web surfaces. This is a handson role for a designer passionate about building and evolving systems from concept through execution.

Responsibilities

• Drive visual design evolution: lead the aesthetic and experience of the website alongside leads and our Design Systems team, ensuring the Cash App brand comes to life online.
• Lead with an AIfirst design and development mindset.
• Shape core aspects of the Cash App website: establish and evolve UI, including building data visualization and motion application.
• Elevate brand expression: integrate our brand into the product through innovative and opinionated visual design and asset libraries, creating unique brand moments at user touchpoints.
• Build systematically: help build our design system, creating comprehensive frameworks, documentation and libraries that other designers can follow.
• Endtoend accountability: obsess over the process from early concept through implementation, ensuring a beautifully crafted outcome.
• Coach the creative direction: be a trusted advisor on all things Cash Apps visual language for partners and system consumers.
• Help shape the future of finance and empower customers to manage their money.
• Lead work driving fundamental concepts across mobile and desktop.
• Contribute to highlevel strategic decisions with product and executive teams.
• Give and solicit feedback from other designers to continually raise our bar for quality.

Qualifications

• Experience building and evolving websites and apps.
• A passion for turning complex problems into simple and engaging websites.
• Outstanding systems thinking, visual design and product thinking for websites.
• Experience applying research, usability tests and metrics to inform design decisions.
• Comfort with an iterative design process that includes accepting and acting on feedback.
• Strong analytical, technical and strategic experience.
• Experience defining motion libraries for UI.
• Experience building data visualization libraries consumed by product teams.
• Experience collaborating across disciplines to lead or support a new idea or product launch.
• Experience conducting and guiding user research and crossfunctional collaboration.
• Proven skills in presenting work, workshopping concepts and evangelizing new ideas.
• Experience with frontend engineering constraints and direct experience partnering with Frontend Engineering (iOS/Android).
• Experience designing for inclusivity and for diverse audiences (international audiences, multilanguage localization, accessibility for people with disabilities).
• 6+ years of experience on creative teams and in technical environments.
• 8+ years of software design, visual design, interaction design, UX design and prototyping experience.

Portfolio Requirements

Please submit a deck or portfolio of work with your application that showcases your design process. If your portfolio site requires a password, please provide us with it in your application or on your resume.

Compensation

Blocks marketbased approach to pay means salaries may vary depending on location. U.S. locations are divided into four zones based on a costoflabor index. The successful candidates starting pay will be based on jobrelated skills, experience, qualifications, work location and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.

• Zone A $251,600$377,400 USD
• Zone B $251,600$377,400 USD
• Zone C $251,600$377,400 USD
• Zone D $251,600$377,400 USD

Use of AI in Our Hiring Process

We may use automated AI tools to evaluate job applications for efficiency and consistency. These tools comply with local regulations, including bias audits, and we handle all personal data in accordance with state and local privacy laws. Contact us at privacy@block.xyz with hiring practice or data usage questions.

Benefits

• Remote work
• Medical insurance
• Flexible time off
• Retirement savings plans
• Modern family planning
• and many more offerings

About Block, Inc.

Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) builds technology to increase access to the global economy. Each of our brands unlocks different aspects of the economy for more people: Square makes commerce and financial services accessible to sellers, Cash App is the easy way to spend, send and store money, Afterpay transforms the way customers manage their spending over time, TIDAL is a music platform that empowers artists to thrive as entrepreneurs, Bitkey is a simple selfcustody wallet built for Bitcoin, and Proto is a suite of Bitcoin mining products and services. Together, were helping build a financial system that is open to everyone.

Employment Details

Seniority Level: MidSenior level
Employment Type: Fulltime
Job Function: Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

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