Block Creative Director at Block leading brand platforms and campaign concepts for Cash App, Square, and Afterpay. Owns ideas from concept through activation and directs creative teams across multiple media.
Responsibilities
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.
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
Qualification
Experience working in agenciesWe believe in being fair
Required
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
Submit your application along with a link to your portfolio. Be sure to include the password in your application if needed.
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.
Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate’s 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.
