Compliance Technology Program Lead

Block (Square)·New York, NY, United States of America·onsite
crypto:applicationlegal-complianceIC530305 Risk - Compliance - Cash App
Compensation
Not disclosed
Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams — People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more — provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more. Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block. The Role Block is seeking a Compliance Technology Program Lead to ensure our Machine Learning and Heuristic detection models — and the data infrastructure that feeds them — are fit for purpose, for our fiat and virtual currency products. This role sits at the intersection of compliance, machine learning, and AI tooling: you will use modern intelligence tools, including Claude and other LLM-based agents, to automate significant portions of oversight, monitoring, and documentation work — turning a traditionally manual, documentation-heavy function into a scalable, defensible program. You will partner with Machine Learning, Engineering and BSA/AML Policy Teams to provide end-to-end technical oversight, effective challenge and ongoing monitoring throughout the model development lifecycle. You Will Build with Modern AI Tools Use AI agents (Claude and similar LLM-based tools) to build automation that scales oversight, monitoring, and documentation work — including drafting requirements, exam-ready documentation, data quality monitoring and ongoing model performance reporting. Design human-in-the-loop checkpoints so that automated outputs remain defensible to regulators and independent monitors. Establish and maintain model and data governance frameworks aligned with SR 11-7, SR 26-2, and OCC 2011-12 so engineering teams can ship defensib