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Senior Analyst, Pricing and Monetization

Role overview

Summary

This role focuses on shaping pricing strategies for Square's largest partnerships, ensuring that commercial decisions support growth and profitability. You will collaborate with various teams to develop pricing models and guardrails, while also analyzing market trends to inform leadership decisions.

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD without experience; or equivalent work experience.
  • Advanced financial modeling skills, including building P&L and unit economics models from scratch.
  • Sound commercial judgment when weighing growth, margin, and risk in a deal.
  • Experience building trusted relationships with senior leaders and presenting analysis and recommendations.
  • Preferred: A habit of building repeatable systems and comfort using AI tools to scale work.

Responsibilities

  • Advise on complex deals by building custom pricing and incentive proposals.
  • Set pricing guardrails by designing portfolio-level pricing targets and deal-level guardrails.
  • Scale the operating model by refining processes for pricing and approving large deals.
  • Track the market by analyzing pricing trends and making recommendations.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Relationship Building
  • Communication
  • Teamwork

About the company

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Block

  • Fintech & Payments
  • Large
  • 10,001+
Block is Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, TBD54566975, and our foundational teams such as Counsel, Finance, and People that provide guidance at the corporate level. These are our building blocks, united by our shared purpose of economic empowerment. Together we’re creating tools to help expand access to the economy. Square helps sellers more easily run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. Cash App is focused on redefining the world’s relationship with money by making it more relatable, instantly available, and universally accessible. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source projects that advance the use of Bitcoin as a tool for economic empowerment. TIDAL is a global platform for musicians and their fans that uses unique content, experiences, and services to bring fans closer to the artists they love and give artists the tools to succeed as entrepreneurs. TBD54566975 is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution. Together, we’re working to help our diverse audiences — sellers, individuals, artists, fans, developers, and all the people in between — overcome barriers to access the economy.

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Job description

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

Square’s Strategic Finance team partners with our go-to-market leaders to make sure our biggest commercial decisions drive both growth and profitability. As a Senior Analyst on our Pricing & Monetization team, reporting to our Deal Desk Lead, you’ll shape how Square prices its largest partnerships, from individual deal structures to the portfolio-level targets and guardrails behind them.

You Will

  • Advise on complex deals: partner cross-functionally to build custom pricing and incentive proposals for some of the most exciting brands in the world
  • Set pricing guardrails: design portfolio-level pricing targets and deal-level guardrails that let teams move quickly while protecting margin
  • Scale the operating model: build and refine the processes we use to price and approve large deals across many teams
  • Track the market: analyze pricing trends across Square’s portfolio and the broader payments industry, and turn what you find into recommendations
  • Present to leadership: turn complex models into clear recommendations for senior leaders

You Have

  • Minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD without experience; or equivalent work experience.
  • Advanced financial modeling skills, including building P&L and unit economics models from scratch
  • Sound commercial judgment when weighing growth, margin, and risk in a deal
  • Experience building trusted relationships with senior leaders and presenting analysis and recommendations that shape their decisions
  • A track record of owning projects end to end, from framing the question to implementing the decision
  • A habit of building repeatable systems rather than one-off answers, and comfort using AI tools to scale your work

We’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 a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to identity or other legally protected class.

We 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.Block is a globally distributed company and this role will require working with other employees in multiple time zones. You may be required to perform work outside of normal business as part of this role

Application Guidelines

Candidates 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.

Use of AI in Our Hiring Process

We 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. 

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Every 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.

Block, 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. Cash App is the easy way to spend, send, and store money. Afterpay is transforming the way customers manage their spending over time. TIDAL is a music platform that empowers artists to thrive as entrepreneurs. Bitkey is a simple self-custody wallet built for bitcoin. Proto is a suite of bitcoin mining products and services. Together, we’re helping build a financial system that is open to everyone.

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