Creative Director, Block
Block
- Location
- New York, NY, United States of America
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Staff
- Salary
- $251.6k/yr
- H-1B history
- 120 approvals (FY2023)
- Posted
- 2h ago
About this role
It all started with an idea at Block in 2013. Initially built to take the pain out of peer-to-peer payments, Cash App has gone from a simple product with a single purpose to a dynamic ecosystem, developing unique financial products, including Afterpay/Clearpay, to provide a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our 50+ million monthly active customers. We want to redefine the world’s relationship with money to make it more relatable, instantly available, and universally accessible.
Today, Cash App has thousands of employees working globally across office and remote locations, with a culture geared toward innovation, collaboration and impact. We’ve been a distributed team since day one, and many of our roles can be done remotely from the countries where Cash App operates. No matter the location, we tailor our experience to ensure our employees are creative, productive, and happy.
The Role
Block's in-house creative team builds the brand platforms and campaigns behind Cash App, Square, and Afterpay. We're hiring a creative director who originates the big idea (brand platforms, repositionings, campaign concepts) and stays with it until it's in market.Strategy sits inside creative, so you shape the brief rather than answer it, then carry the idea across every medium it lives in: film, social, experiential, copy, and online and offline activations.
This is an individual contributor role. You'll lead project teams and set the creative standard.
You Will
• Originate brand platforms and campaign-level ideas, and own them from concept through activation
• Reposition brands, and keep the platform coherent across brand and product surfaces
• Hold the idea intact from first cut to final placement
• Shape the brief alongside an embedded creative-strategy team
• Direct designers, writers, and production partners on the work
• Work with marketing, product, and partnerships leadership to get campaigns made
You Have
• A portfolio of work you led as a creative director: brand platforms, repositionings, campaigns, activations
• An art direction background and the visual judgment to lead the idea in any medium
• A track record setting creative vision and quality standards for a brand, while staying hands-on with the work
• Credibility with cross-functional leadership as a peer
• A history of catching cultural shifts early and putting them in the work
• Experience carrying brand thinking across multiple products or business lines
• Experience working in agencies, in-house, or both
To Apply
Submit your application along with a link to your portfolio. Be sure to include the password in your application if needed.
EEOC
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 an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.
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.
While there is no specific deadline to apply for this role, U.S.