Head of Product

The Foundational Engineering (Fe) Head of Product, Financial Technology role leads the Product organization responsible for Financial technology systems across Block, including Finance and Strategy (F&S), Controllership, Tax, Reconciliation, Treasury and Procurement. In this role, you will work with senior business stakeholders to understand and define the requirements for transforming how our financial systems function to enable our next wave of growth. Identifying automation opportunities by improving the underlying financial data platforms to enable AI and automation capabilities will be key to success. Key outcomes of this work will be automating our monthly close process, building new data products to provide our F&S team with higher quality data more quickly, and working across multiple business unit reconciliation processes to improve overall GL health. This position will work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with aggressive timelines and often competing priorities. ​​The position will work across functional teams to identify dependencies and bring attention to risks associated with the work of other functional teams.

Success in this role will require creativity to re-imagine possible future processes that will enable our ability to scale through automation. The scope will include a range of financial planning requirements that will improve or create operational processes and automate key steps.

In addition, this role will be a leader in our Product function and help drive greater maturity of Fe’s Product model. This includes defining and managing success metrics, OKRs, roadmap definition & delivery, and mentoring junior Product Managers.

Requirements

You will:

• Experience leading a product team that has partnered with engineering to design and deliver a financial transformation for a large multinational - must have expert level understanding of the technology design skills required
• Stakeholder management across the F&S, Controllership, Tax, Engineering, and integration partner teams to deliver technology solutions that meet business needs
• Represents the business point of view when designing and collaborating with other Product and Engineering teams, including integration partners
• Provide critical input and insight into planning system requirements based on prior experience, process knowledge and future state vision
• Participate in internal process improvement initiatives to improve planning, reporting, analytics, and technical aspects of F&S processes
• Transparently publish roadmaps and associated metrics (e.g. CSAT, cycle time) with the wider Block leadership team on a quarterly cadence
• Work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth knowledge of the industry as well as our business and department objectives & requirements
• Participate in corporate development projects to provide guidance on M&A activities
• Lead, grow, and expand a team of accomplished product management professionals while encouraging an environment of learning and growth mindset
• Work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth knowledge of the industry as well as our business and Finance department objectives & requirements
• Partner with the CISO, Chief Privacy Officer and Head of Fe GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance) to ensure privacy, regulatory, and security requirements are incorporated into all Financial products and roadmaps

You have:

• 15+ years of demonstrated success leading Product teams to deliver secure, business critical software, platform migrations, and data and cloud solutions in a highly regulated environment.
• 10+ years of operational experience in managing accounting and finance business processes
• Ability to understand complex business intent, identify gaps between current and desired future state, translate business requirements into required system functionality, and determine best viable path to meet current and future business needs while considering delivery time and tradeoffs for each decision
• 7+ years of experience in developing strategies and launching data platform product capabilities
• Experience in a highly complex global organizations operating within large-scale ERP systems