Product Designer, Open Source Design

Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams — People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more — provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more. Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block. 

The Role

As part of a newly formed Block central design team, our mission is to reinvent the way we design, build, and govern product ecosystems, internally and externally to Block, while showing the world what open source design looks like in the process. Our team built the design systems that powers Cash App, and we are now expanding our efforts into AI-assisted tooling and open-source agent-based automation (check out our recently launched agent codename goose!).

Work from anywhere: This role can be performed remotely from any location in the US.

You Will

• Design AI-powered tools that enhance creativity and efficiency, including open-source AI agents that automate and augment workflows.
• Design plugins, linters, and automation tools (Figma, native apps, internal tools) that improve the design and development process.
• Consult with business unit teams on how they can apply AI solutions to their workflows, and guide teams towards a technology first approach to crafting the customer experience.
• Explore novel applications of AI in design workflows, from generative UI solutions to intelligent layout suggestions and predictive design patterns.
• Design and maintain design systems that power our open source tools, supporting documentation, and all extensions of our work that can be leveraged across Block.

You Have

• 8+ years of experience working in user experience, product, or relevant design field
• A deep interest in the design and development process itself, always thinking about better ways to deliver craft at scale 
• Experience designing full product solutions end-to-end autonomously while guiding cross functional partners through the process 
• Experience designing with, and contributing to, design systems within a large product organization
• Strong user interface and design fitness
• Proficiency with current UI and product workflow tools (figma, airtable, notion, etc.) and comfortable speaking to modern display layer technologies (Token Schemas, APIs, Swift, Kottlin, etc)
• Been mistaken for an ops person or product manager before
• Experience working with distributed teams in multiple time zones and an affinity for designing and facilitating asynchronous collaborative work
• Past work experience showcasing the ability to define major workstreams, communicate a plan and success measurement framework, and then execute 
• The spidey sense to recognize patterns most people don’t see in the organization, and the ability to facilitate collaborative efforts to connect the dots

Please submit a deck or portfolio of work with your application that showcases your design process from exploratory stages through execution. If your portfolio site requires a password, please provide us with it in your application or on your resume. Thank you!

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. roles are typically open for an average of 55 days before being filled by a successful candidate. Please refer to the date listed at the top of this job page for when this role was first posted.