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They build trust, develop talent, hold teams accountable, communicate directly, and use data and AI thoughtfully to improve decisions and delivery. They are comfortable operating across product, design, engineering, risk, operations, and vendor boundaries while maintaining a high bar for security, quality, resilience, and customer experience.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience leading teams that develop and operate mobile native applications, particularly iOS/Swift and Android/Kotlin codebases.\nExperience with fintech, digital banking, payments, lending, savings, card, or other regulated financial applications.\nExperience managing integrations with financial technology platforms, processors, vendors, APIs, and enterprise capabilities.\nExperience introducing AI-assisted and agentic development practices at team scale and measuring improvements in quality, flow, speed, or customer outcomes.\nExperience leading modernization of mobile platforms, engineering practices, or complex customer-facing technology ecosystems.\nExperience managing program budgets, vendor relationships, contracts, and service levels.\nWhy work for us\nAt H&R Block, our purpose is simple: to provide help and inspire confidence in our clients and communities everywhere. 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