Principal Designer, Banking

About the role

We are looking for a Principal Designer to join the Cash App Banking team. Banking is where Cash App becomes the place people actually keep their money. We design the core of that relationship: the Cash App Card, direct deposit, savings, Borrow, Cash App Green, Teens and Family accounts, physical Cash Tags, and bitcoin. These are the products customers touch every day and trust with the most consequential parts of their financial lives.

Responsibilities

• Own complex, ambiguous Banking initiatives end to end, from early exploration through shipped product
• Drive zero-to-one product experiences that are both strategically sharp and visually distinctive
• Set and hold the quality bar for Banking design, defining what excellent looks like and demonstrating it in your own work
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Risk, Compliance, and Research as a trusted peer, translating complex financial and regulatory logic into experiences people immediately understand
• Prototype early and often, using AI and emerging tools to compress the distance between an idea and something people can actually use
• Shape long-term product vision and design strategy across Banking surfaces, and influence what makes the roadmap
• Contribute to and extend the systems and patterns Cash App is built on, strengthening cohesion across products
• Elevate the designers around you through critique, feedback, and modeling high craft

Requirements

• 10+ years of product design experience, with a portfolio showing exceptional craft and systems thinking
• A track record of shipping zero-to-one products, not only iterating on existing ones
• Mastery of interaction, visual, and systems design, and the judgment to know which one a problem actually needs
• Experience designing in complex, high-stakes domains where clarity and trust are non-negotiable. Fintech, banking, health, or another regulated space
• Proven ability to operate autonomously through ambiguity, setting your own direction and bringing partners with you
• Fluency with AI and prototyping tools, and a real point of view on how they change design practice
• Strong influence and communication skills as a peer to cross-functional leadership
• A hands-on posture. You still design, and your own work sets the standard

Qualifications

• Fluent with AI and prototyping tools, and a real point of view on how they change design practice
• Strong influence and communication skills as a peer to cross-functional leadership
• A hands-on posture. You still design, and your own work sets the standard

Skills

• Interaction design
• Visual design
• Systems design
• Complex, high-stakes domain experience
• Fluency with AI and prototyping tools
• Ability to operate autonomously through ambiguity

Benefits

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.

Pay

Starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Schedule

Remote work, medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning are just some of our offering.