Principal Visual Designer, Design Systems

It all started with an idea at Block in 2013. Initially built to take the pain out of peer-to-peer payments, Cash App has gone from a simple product with a single purpose to a dynamic app, bringing a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our millions of monthly active users. With a mission to redefine the world's relationship with money by making it more relatable, available and accessible, at Cash App you'll have the opportunity to make a real-world impact with your career.
Today, Cash App has thousands of employees around the world with a culture geared toward creativity, collaboration and impact. We've been a distributed team since day one, and continue to value working across time zones and continents both remotely and in our Cash App offices.
Our offices are great, but many of our roles can be done remotely from the countries where Block operates. We tailor our experience to champion our employees' creativity and productivity wherever they are.
Check out our locations, benefits and more at cash.app/careers .
The Role
The Design Systems team at Cash App takes a horizontal view of the Cash App experience, collaborating with brand, product, and engineering partners to build the foundations, components, and patterns that power our apps and drive our experiences. We are seeking an imaginative and driven designer to join our growing team, focusing on leading the visual design and evolution of our design system. This is a hands-on role for a designer passionate about building and evolving systems from concept through execution. You will report to the Design Systems Lead.
As a Visual Designer, you will:

• Drive visual design evolution: Lead the aesthetic and experience of the product alongside leads and our Design Systems team, ensuring the Cash App brand comes to life in our app.
• Shape core aspects of the design system: Establish and evolve libraries within the system, such as building data visualization, motion application, or higher order patterns and templates, contributing to a cohesive and beautiful product experience.
• Elevate brand expression: Integrate our brand into the product through innovative and opinionated visual design and visual asset libraries, ensuring unique brand moments at the right touchpoints for our users.
• Build systematically: Help build our design system, creating comprehensive frameworks, documentation, and libraries that other designers can follow to bring their work to life visually.
• End-to-end accountability: Obsess over the process from early concept through implementation, ensuring a well-crafted and beautiful outcome.
• Create the systems playbook: Be involved in every aspect of creating the systems documentation ecosystem, creating an excellent resource for all things systems at Cash.
• Coach the creative direction: Be a trusted advisor on all things Cash App's visual language with partners and system consumers.

This position is full-time and available for remote within the US/Canada.
You will:

• Help shape the future of finance and how customers are empowered to manage their money.
• Build systems, libraries, and documentation used by product teams across our ecosystem.
• Contribute to defining our product experience and design system across several foundational surfaces.
• Utilize your full range of systems design, interaction design, and visual design skills.
• Apply original thinking to create step-change, visionary product concepts.
• Lead work driving fundamental concepts across mobile and web clients.
• Contribute to high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the product and executive teams.
• Give and solicit feedback from other designers to continually raise our bar for quality.

You have:

• Experience building and evolving design systems.
• A passion for turning complex problems into simple and engaging UI.
• Outstanding systems thinking, visual design, and product thinking for mobile apps.
• Experience applying research, usability tests, and metrics to inform design decisions.
• Comfort with an iterative design process that includes accepting and acting on feedback.
• Strong analytical, technical, and strategic experience.
• Experience defining motion libraries for UI.
• Experience building data visualization libraries consumed by product teams.
• Experience collaborating across disciplines to lead or support a new idea or product to launch.
• Experience conducting and guiding user research and cross-functional collaboration.
• Proven skills in presenting work, workshopping concepts, and evangelizing new ideas.
• Experience with front-end engineering constraints and direct experience partnering with Front-end Engineering (iOS/Android).
• Experience designing for inclusivity and for diverse audiences (international audiences, multi-language localization, accessibility for people with disabilities).
• 6+ years of experience on creative teams and in technical environments.
• 8+ years of software design, visual design, interaction design, UX design, and prototyping experience.

Please submit a deck or portfolio of work with your application that showcases your design process. If your portfolio site requires a password, please provide us with it in your application or on your resume. Thank you!
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.
To find a location's zone designation, please refer to this resource . If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information.
Zone A:
$228,700 - $343,100 USD
Zone B:
$228,700 - $343,100 USD
Zone C:
$228,700 - $343,100 USD
Zone D:
$228,700 - $343,100 USD
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.