Job Description

Cash App's People team is looking for a content strategist to lead in-house editorial planning and channel optimization to engage, inspire and inform our 3,000 global employees and counting. With a keen eye for both the big picture and details, you will oversee the content strategy as part of Cash App's Employee Communications & Engagement team. At Cash App, Employee Communications powers our voice and keeps our globally distributed workforce informed and connected to our purpose.

The Editorial and Content Manager will work within a larger team and report to the Employee Communications Lead. You are comfortable working in a distributed, matrixed environment with exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to adapt and manage changing priorities. Establishing relationships across Cash App and Block teams will be important to your success.

You Will: 

• Curate and develop content strategies that keep Cash App employees feeling connected to our purpose and each other, understand our business and products, and feel inspired about our path forward.
• Support the ongoing development of the company intranet and the editorial planning to surface relevant, engaging content.
• Oversee the content creation process, manage workloads, lead interview review cycle and measure impact.
• In addition to editing and strategy, you'll develop short- and long-form content and for the intranet, Slack, scripts, presentations and announcements.
• Guide the creation of a style guide for internal storytelling and a framework that ensures equitable coverage throughout Cash.
• Manage editorial calendar to guarantee a regular schedule of dynamic content across owned channels while providing visibility and clarity to partners across the organization.
• Partner with teams across the organization, from Design to Communities to Engineering, to explore a diverse range of story ideas.
• Manage the daily responsibilities of contract and freelance writers.
• Support executive communications and issues management.
• Manage partnerships with creative agencies and in-house design teams to support employee-exclusive assets.

Qualifications

You Have: 

• 5+ years of direct editorial experience working for industry-leading brands or publications.
• Experience with creative storytelling with a keen ability to uncover and shape a narrative.
• An ability to compliment Cash App's bold approach to copywriting in our internal work.
• Excellent writing and editing skills combined with speed, flexibility and attention to detail.
• Experience driving an editorial strategy and influencing others toward your vision
• An ability to shift between creating brand-oriented content to inspire and distilling large amounts of complex business information into engaging content.
• An understanding of an evolving digital landscape and experience with exploring new platforms that bring editorial to life—experience working in different CMS platforms. Bonus points for Contentful experience!
• Experience working in a large and diverse team: expressing ideas across levels, managing differing points of view, influencing others while maintaining relationships -- you're a collaborator!

Additional Information

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 a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. 

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. _

Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.

Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.