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After enabling anyone to take payments and never miss a sale, we saw sellers stymied by disparate, outmoded products and tools that wouldn’t work together.\nSo we expanded into software and started building integrated, omnichannel solutions - to help sellers sell online, manage inventory, offer buy now, pay later functionality, book appointments, engage loyal buyers, and hire and pay staff. Across it all, we’ve embedded financial services tools at the point of sale, so merchants can access a business loan and manage their cash flow in one place. Afterpay furthers our goal to provide omnichannel tools that unlock meaningful value and growth, enabling sellers to capture the next generation shopper, increase order sizes, and compete at a larger scale.\nToday, we are a partner to sellers of all sizes - large, enterprise-scale businesses with complex operations, sellers just starting, as well as merchants who began selling with Square and have grown larger over time. As our sellers grow, so do our solutions. There is a massive opportunity in front of us. We’re building a significant, meaningful, and lasting business, and we are helping sellers worldwide do the same.\nThe Role\nSquare is looking for a Senior Creative Strategist to independently lead creative and content strategy for a defined growth portfolio within Demand Generation. You’ll own initiatives from audience insight and strategic planning through development, launch, experimentation, and optimization across paid and unpaid experiences.\nThis senior individual contributor role combines marketing, creative strategy, content development, and experimentation. You’ll translate business priorities, audience insights, product messaging, and performance data into programs that drive consideration, acquisition, and conversion. Your scope will connect mid- and lower-funnel creative with corresponding landing pages and content experiences.\nOur creative model is increasingly self-serve and AI-enabled. You’ll identify what we should build and test, develop messaging and creative hypotheses, and choose the right approach to delivery-creating directly with self-serve tools or leading creative and technical partners. Your work may include ads, SEO-informed website content, educational resources, and interactive tools such as calculators that help sellers evaluate Square and take action.\nYou’ll co-develop the broader DG creative and content tactical plan with the Creative & Optimization Strategy Lead and cross-functional partners, then take independent ownership of agreed portfolios and initiatives. You’ll become a subject matter expert on your audiences and acquisition journey, working across channels and influencing partners without relying on formal reporting authority.\nYou Will\nOwn creative and content strategy for an assigned growth portfolio, connecting business objectives, audience needs, product value propositions, and channel behavior across mid- and lower-funnel experiences. Lead initiatives from strategy through delivery and optimization.\nBuild audience-specific and audience-agnostic messaging frameworks and hierarchies that establish what we need to communicate and how it should flex across paid and unpaid channels, funnel stages, formats, and corresponding landing pages.\nIdentify unmet audience needs and opportunities for creative, content, and experience experimentation. Use performance data, customer research, channel trends, and business priorities to develop hypotheses and make a clear recommendation on what to build or test next.\nCo-develop quarterly tactical plans with the Creative & Optimization Strategy Lead and channel partners. Own the testing roadmap for your portfolio, defining hypotheses, isolated variables, success measures, resource needs, and tradeoffs.\nLead net-new creative and content development from insight and concept through launch. Write strategic briefs, develop messaging and content, provide actionable feedback, and coordinate creative, agency, and technical partners. Use self-serve tools to produce and iterate directly when appropriate.\nOwn performance reviews for your initiatives with channel and analytics partners. Use quantitative and qualitative evidence to understand what performed and why, distinguish creative signals from media delivery and audience effects, and recommend the next action.\nSynthesize learnings across experiments and channels, identifying patterns beyond individual test results and using them to inform future messaging, creative, audience, and channel strategies.\nScale winning messages and concepts across paid social, display, native, online video, streaming/CTV, mobile, digital out-of-home, direct mail, and emerging channels. Extend relevant learnings into unpaid content, website experiences, and other seller touchpoints.\nIdentify, prioritize, and execute landing page experiments to improve conversion, translating audience insights and creative learnings into tests of messaging, content, and page experiences. Make updates directly through self-serve tools or work with cross-functional partners to launch tests, evaluate results, and iterate.\nDevelop and improve self-serve, AI-enabled frameworks, templates, tools, and workflows that increase creative and content quality, testing speed, and scale. Apply AI across research, ideation, briefing, development, experimentation, and analysis, evaluating output for accuracy, brand alignment, and usefulness.\nConnect creative and content decisions to business outcomes. Prioritize opportunities and resources based on likely impact, effort, and evidence, and communicate recommendations, progress, and results clearly to stakeholders and leadership.\nBring structure to ambiguous, complex initiatives: define the problem, develop a point of view, align stakeholders, resolve dependencies, and drive delivery independently. Build trusted partnerships across channel marketing, creative, agencies, analytics, CRO, Web, SEO, and other teams.\nYou Have\n6+ years of relevant experience across creative strategy, performance marketing, growth marketing, integrated marketing, content strategy, advertising, or a related discipline, with demonstrated ownership of complex programs and measurable business outcomes.\nA marketer’s mindset with strong creative judgment and business acumen. You can develop strategy across distinct audiences and acquisition journeys, connect mid- and lower-funnel experiences, and turn business needs into effective creative and content.\nAdvanced fluency with AI-powered tools and workflows, with a demonstrated ability to use AI as an integral part of creative strategy. You regularly apply AI across research, ideation, briefing, creative development, analysis, and optimization; build repeatable workflows that improve speed, quality, and scale; and bring a critical, experimental mindset to emerging tools and capabilities.\nStrong analytical and experimentation skills, with experience forming hypotheses, designing or evaluating creative tests, interpreting performance data, and translating results into clear recommendations for what to test next.\nExperience developing messaging strategies, value propositions, creative territories, or messaging hierarchies and translating them across audiences, funnel stages, channels, and formats.\nExperience independently leading complex creative or content initiatives from audience insight and strategic planning through launch and iteration, including writing clear briefs, developing messaging, and guiding creative and production partners.\nA strong understanding of performance marketing and the relationship between creative, media, content, and the post-click experience. You can identify how messaging and experience changes may improve conversion and partner with specialists to test them.\nThe ability to synthesize learnings across multiple experiments and channels, identify meaningful patterns, and develop a clear point of view on where the greatest opportunities lie.\nStrong cross-functional influence, prioritization, and communication skills. You can navigate ambiguity, align stakeholders without formal authority, make sound tradeoffs, and drive work to completion with limited direction.\nPreferred Experience\nExperience in an agency environment, particularly working across strategy, media, creative, and campaign execution.\nExperience developing unpaid content, SEO-informed website experiences, educational resources, or interactive decision tools such as calculators, in partnership with content, SEO, Web, or technical teams.\nExperience building creative testing programs or experimentation frameworks at scale.\nExperience with conversion rate optimization, landing page experimentation, or other forms of digital experience optimization.\nExperience developing self-serve creative systems, templates, playbooks, or AI-enabled workflows.\nExperience marketing products to small businesses, merchants, or B2B audiences.\nWe'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.\nWe 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.\nWhile 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.\nBlock 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.\nTo 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. \nZone A:\n$163,600—$245,400 USD\nZone B:\n$152,200—$228,200 USD\nZone C:\n$144,000—$216,000 USD\nZone D:\n$135,800—$203,600 USD\nApplication Guidelines\nCandidates may submit up to 9 active applications within a 60-day period. Reapplications to the same role are accepted 90 days after a previous application has been reviewed.\nUse of AI in Our Hiring Process\nWe may use automated AI tools to evaluate job applications for efficiency and consistency. These tools comply with local regulations, including bias audits, and we handle all personal data in accordance with state and local privacy laws. \nContact us here with hiring practice or data usage questions.\nEvery benefit we offer is designed with one goal: empowering you to do the best work of your career while building the life you want. Remote work, medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning are just some of our offering. Check out our other benefits at Block.\nBlock, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) builds technology to increase access to the global economy. Each of our brands unlocks different aspects of the economy for more people. Square makes commerce and financial services accessible to sellers. 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