Senior Product Manager

About Us

Block is an AI platform transforming the $500 billion renovation industry. Our mission is to enable millions of homeowners to create spaces they love and thousands of contractors to build thriving businesses. We are the nations largest and most trusted place to plan and hire for major renovation projects powered by proprietary AI experiences personalized guidance and a vetted contractor network.

Overview

Block is looking for a Senior Product Manager to own the marketplace experiencethe surfaces where homeowners and contractors come together to plan communicate transact and deliver renovations.

Youll be building AI-powered product experiences. Blocks platform increasingly uses AI to help homeowners visualize their spaces get estimates and find the right contractor. Youll bring curiosity and judgment to that workpushing the boundaries of whats possible for both sides of the marketplace.

At Block product managers validate ideas by building. Youll use tools like Claude Code Cursor and v0 to prototype new experiences test hypotheses about supply and demand dynamics and ship working demos to stakeholders. AI tools are a real part of how we work here not a nice-to-have. Theyre what lets a small team move at the speed this work demands.

Together with engineering and design youll drive strategy and execution across the marketplaceowning the outcomes the roadmap and the quality bar for everything downstream of our onboarding experience.

This position reports to the SVP of Product & Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy and end-to-end delivery of Blocks marketplace experience our agentic dashboard surface homeowner-contractor matching payments and billing messaging and the contractor-facing product
• Drive both sides of the marketplace: youll think about homeowner needs and contractor needs as two use cases of one shared project ensuring the experience works as a unified whole
• Validate ideas by building. Use AI tools (like Claude Code Cursor or v0) to prototype marketplace flows and test hypotheses
• Ship your own product updates. Feel comfortable making changes to the product making changes in the codebase and pushing PRs
• Write clear well-structured PRDs that engineering and design can build fromand iterate on them quickly using AI-assisted workflows where they help
• Scope and stage large initiatives into well-defined milestones with clear rollout plans success criteria and next steps
• Make informed tradeoffs around scope technical debt and product qualityaccepting product debt thoughtfully when it speeds up delivering value to users
• Partner closely with the SVP of Product engineering and design to shape the roadmap align on priorities and coordinate execution across teams
• Run a continuous cycle of discovery delivery and measurementshipping fast learning from real usage data and feeding insights back into what you build next
• Champion the customer in every product decisiongrounding your work in data user research and direct observation of how homeowners and contractors actually use the product
• Mentor other members of the product team and participate in hiring to help grow PM talent at Block

Qualifications

• 5 years of product management experience with meaningful time spent owning product strategy and shipping large initiatives end-to-end
• Experience with two-sided marketplaces platforms or products where supply and demand dynamics shape the product strategy
• Familiarity with AI-powered product developmentyou understand what AI can and cant do well how to evaluate model outputs systematically and how to design products that use AI thoughtfully
• Hands-on experience with AI tools (like Claude Code Cursor or v0) in your PM workflowfor creating PRDs prototyping ideas analyzing data or some combination. We want PMs who build not just define
• Strong product instincts and the ability to make well-reasoned tradeoffs between scope effort user value and business impact
• Comfort with datayou use analytics to inform decisions define success criteria and measure outcomes. Youre not dependent on a data team to answer your own questions
• Excellent written communication. Your PRDs surface the right questions your roadmap docs tell a clear story and your stakeholder updates are concise and useful
• A collaborative low-ego approach to working with engineering design data and operations

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with home renovation real estate or construction
• Experience at a startup or growth-stage company where you wore multiple hats and operated with high autonomy
• Comfort with SQL Python or other tools for independent data exploration
• Familiarity with our current stack ( TypeScript React Feathers )

How Well Evaluate You

Our interview process includes a live exercise where youll use AI tools to tackle a product problemwhether thats drafting a spec analyzing a dataset or prototyping a flow. We want to see how you think how you use these tools and how you make product decisions in real time.

Compensation & Benefits

Block wants all employees to be supported in their personal and professional development so we take a comprehensive approach to compensation and benefits.

• Earn equity in an early-stage high-growth company
• Subsidized health insurance dental and vision coverage
• Flexible work environment with a hybrid schedule and work from anywhere time
• PTO and company holidays
• 12 weeks universal fully paid family leave
• 401k retirement savings plan with matching employer contribution
• HSA with employer contribution & FSA plan
• Budgeted learning and development stipend
• The tools you need to do your best work (including AI tool subscriptions)
• Working alongside an ambitious kind no-drama team