Full-Time

Account Manager

Smb

Block

Block

10,001+ employees

Payments, financial services, and crypto ecosystem

No salary listed

Brisbane QLD, Australia

In Person

May require collaboration across multiple time zones.

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Required Skills
Sales

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Requirements
  • 3+ years of experience in account management, sales, or consultative roles.
  • A consultative, customer-first mindset with proven ability to advocate for client needs, backed by a genuine passion for helping SMBs succeed.
  • Strong organisational and time management skills — ability to juggle high-volume outreach with meaningful follow-up.
  • Excellent communication skills — engaging in conversation and able to simplify complex ideas.
  • Commercial acumen and curiosity — you understand small business drivers and how Square can accelerate their success.
  • A growth mindset and builder’s mentality — eager to experiment, learn, and create better ways of working.
  • A track record of delivering measurable outcomes, driving adoption, and being perceived as a trusted advisor by clients.
Responsibilities
  • Own, retain, and grow a portfolio of SMB merchants, helping them thrive through tailored adoption of Square tools.
  • Act as the voice of your merchants within Square, advocating for their needs with empathy and surfacing insights that shape our products.
  • Build trusted relationships with your top merchants, while maintaining consultative connections across your wider portfolio.
  • Drive expansion through product adoption, upselling, and value-based recommendations.
  • Balance proactive outreach, retention activities, and growth opportunities through strong organisation and time management.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Sales, Product, Support) to deliver solutions tailored to each merchant.
  • Own clear outcome-based growth and retention goals for your portfolio, ensuring merchants see real results from your partnership.

Block builds a broad financial services ecosystem. Its Square product handles point-of-sale and payment processing for small businesses. Cash App lets people transfer money, invest in stocks and Bitcoin, and use a customizable debit card. Block also owns TIDAL and develops Bitcoin tools (Spiral) and a hardware wallet to expand use and security. The goal is to provide an integrated platform for payments, consumer finance, digital currencies, and services like music streaming.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Oakland, California

Founded

2009

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Square Handheld can expand merchant adoption of portable, integrated checkout.
  • Afterpay can lift conversion and basket size across Block's commerce stack.
  • Cross-sell from 4 million sellers and Cash App users supports higher attach rates.

What critics are saying

  • Cash App earnings depend heavily on payments and Bitcoin trading volatility.
  • Large integrated POS rivals compress Square's take rates and merchant retention.
  • Regulatory action against Cash App crypto, AML, or fraud controls would hit growth fast.

What makes Block unique

  • Square bundles POS hardware, software, payroll, and banking for small businesses.
  • Cash App extends beyond transfers into investing, Bitcoin, direct deposit, and tax prep.
  • Bitkey and Spiral give Block a distinct Bitcoin self-custody and infrastructure angle.

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Benefits

Remote Work Options

Health Insurance

Flexible Work Hours

Family Planning Benefits

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

1%

1 year growth

-7%

2 year growth

2%
Doshby Blog
Jul 23rd, 2026
What is MCP (Model Context Protocol)?

What is MCP (Model Context Protocol)? By chris linus. July 23, 2026. Before MCP existed, connecting an AI model to an external tool was a custom engineering job. Every time. Connecting Claude to your company's GitHub repository required one integration. Connecting it to Slack required another. A database, another. A CRM, another. Every new AI model your team evaluated, or every new tool your stack adopted, meant the same custom work again from scratch. Anthropic called this the MxN problem: M models multiplied by N tools equals MxN separate integrations to build, maintain, and debug. As AI use in enterprises scaled through 2024, the integration tax was quietly becoming the thing that made serious AI adoption unscalable - not the models themselves, but the engineering effort to wire them to anything useful. MCP was the answer to that specific problem. And it worked fast enough that even Anthropic's direct competitors adopted it within months. What is MCP? MCP - Model Context Protocol - is an open standard that gives AI models a single, standardized way to connect to external tools, data sources, and services which was developed by Anthropic and publicly released on November 25, 2024. Instead of a separate custom integration for every model-to-tool pair, each AI model implements MCP once and each tool or service implements MCP once therefore collapsing the MxN integration problem into M+N. The simplest analogy is USB-C: before it, every device needed its own cable. After it, one connector works across everything. MCP does the same thing for AI integrations, not because the analogy is perfect, but because the underlying logic is identical. One standard, adopted on both sides, eliminating the need for proprietary adapters in between. FURTHER READING What is an MCP Server? The architecture behind MCP involves three roles, each with a specific job. The MCP host is the AI application the user actually interacts with doubling as the environment where the AI model lives. Claude Desktop and Claude Code are Anthropic's reference MCP host implementations, meaning they are designed from the ground up to connect to MCP servers. Cursor, VS Code with Copilot, and ChatGPT's desktop app are other examples of hosts that have adopted the standard. The MCP client is a component that lives inside the host. It manages the connection to a specific server - one client per server connection, kept isolated to simplify error handling and security. The MCP server is the external programme or service that exposes capabilities to the AI. As Zuplo's technical guide describes it, an MCP server receives structured requests from clients, executes the requested operations, and returns results. Each server can expose three types of capabilities: tools (functions the AI can call, like running a search or creating a ticket), resources (data the AI can read, like files or database records), and prompts (reusable templates for specific interaction patterns). GitHub's MCP Server, which entered public preview on April 4, 2025, is one of the most widely used examples: it exposes GitHub's APIs - repositories, pull requests, issues, actions - as MCP tools, so any MCP-compatible AI model can read and interact with a GitHub codebase without a custom integration. Slack, Google Drive, Postgres, Jira, Linear, Snowflake, Stripe, and hundreds of other services have published their own MCP servers following the same pattern. Anthropic's official MCP documentation provides the full technical specification, server-building guides in TypeScript, Python, Java, Kotlin, Go, and several other languages, and a growing registry of available servers. From Anthropic's idea to industry infrastructure. In March 2025, OpenAI who stands as Anthropic's most direct competitor, officially adopted MCP across its Agents SDK, Responses API, and ChatGPT desktop app. CEO Sam Altman posted simply: "People love MCP and we are excited to add support across our products." As technology analyst Shelly Palmer noted at the time: "Why would OpenAI adopt its rival's protocol? Because standardization will speed AI adoption." It was the clearest possible signal that MCP was solving a real infrastructure problem, not just serving Anthropic's interests. In April 2025, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis confirmed MCP support for upcoming Gemini models. In May 2025, at Microsoft Build 2025, GitHub and Microsoft joined MCP's steering committee, with Microsoft announcing a preview of Windows 11 MCP integration. By December 2025, Anthropic donated the MCP specification to the Agentic AI Foundation - a new directed fund under the Linux Foundation, with Google, Microsoft, AWS, and Cloudflare as founding co-sponsors. MCP had stopped being "Anthropic's protocol" and become neutral infrastructure. The adoption numbers reflect that shift. By December 2025, MCP had more than 10,000 active public servers and 97 million monthly SDK downloads across its Python and TypeScript implementations - up from roughly 100,000 downloads at launch thirteen months earlier. By May 2026, the GitHub ecosystem showed over 15,900 repositories tagged with the mcp-server topic, with the core modelcontextprotocol/servers repository accumulating over 86,000 stars. What MCP means in practice. The most concrete production result available comes from "Block" the parent company of Square and Cash App, which co-developed the MCP standard with Anthropic and built an open-source MCP-compatible AI agent called Goose for internal use. Block's deployed Goose connects by default to Snowflake, GitHub, Jira, Slack, Google Drive, and internal APIs - all through MCP - turning the AI agent into a single interface for the entire tool stack. Reported employee outcomes: 50-75% time savings on common tasks, with work that previously took days completing in hours. That result illustrates the structural shift MCP enables. The value of an AI agent in an enterprise context is not primarily the model's intelligence - it's the model's access to the systems, data, and tools that make intelligence actionable. An AI agent that can only work with information inside its context window is useful. One that can read your database, query your GitHub repos, pull a Jira ticket, and draft a Slack message, all from a single prompt making this instance a different category of tool. Before MCP, building that second type of agent meant custom integration work for every connection. With MCP, each connection is one standard implementation, reusable across any MCP-compatible model. The integration sprint that used to be a prerequisite for every new AI deployment is, increasingly, a solved problem. For enterprises evaluating AI agents and agentic AI workflows, MCP is now effectively table stakes - the infrastructure layer that needs to be present before serious deployment begins, in the same way TCP/IP needed to be present before the internet could become useful. The take away. MCP arrived quietly in November 2024 as an answer to a specific, tedious, expensive engineering problem: the cost of wiring AI models to the tools they need to be useful. Within thirteen months, it had been adopted by every major AI platform, donated to neutral governance under the Linux Foundation, and generated 97 million monthly SDK downloads. The speed of that adoption is the signal. Standards that solve real infrastructure problems spread without needing marketing. MCP spread because the MxN integration problem was genuinely painful, and a clean M+N solution was genuinely valuable. The enterprise AI deployments that move fastest in 2026 are the ones that treated MCP as infrastructure from the start - not as a feature to add later.

Daily AI Tools
Jul 21st, 2026
Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting.

Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting. By ryanmerket Tuesday, July 21, 2026 Hacker News Front Page Jack Dorsey's Block has unveiled Buzz, an integrated platform merging team communication, Git hosting, and AI-driven automation. By centralizing core developer workflows into a single ecosystem, Dorsey aims to reduce tool sprawl and streamline production, positioning Buzz as a direct, AI-native challenger to establishe Hacker News Front Page

The Michigan Times
Jul 12th, 2026
Michigan joins $45 million settlement accusing Cash App of weak fraud controls: "Customer safety should always be a top priority"

Michigan joins $45 million settlement accusing Cash App of weak fraud controls: "Customer safety should always be a top priority" July 12, 2026 2 min. read Lansing, Michigan - Cash App built its reputation on speed. Money could move in seconds, paychecks could land directly in an account, and users without traditional banking relationships had a simple way to manage daily finances. But regulators say that convenience came with gaps that left consumers exposed when fraud struck. Now Block, Inc., the company behind Cash App, has agreed to a $45 million multistate settlement over allegations that it misled users about the app's safety, failed to prevent fraud and did not provide customer support and refunds required by law. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced the agreement, under which Michigan will receive $936,540. The settlement also requires Block to strengthen fraud protections, improve live customer service and stop making misleading claims about how Cash App protects users. "Customer safety should always be a top priority, and when a company misleads and fails to protect its users from fraud, it must be held accountable," Nessel said. Discover more Courts & Judiciary Vehicle & Traffic Safety "This settlement requires Cash App to maintain strong safeguards for consumers and commits the company to putting stolen money back into the pockets of Michigan residents." According to the states, Block promoted Cash App in ways that suggested users' money carried protections similar to those offered by a bank. Regulators said that impression was not accurate. At the same time, fraud on the platform was rising, yet the company continued marketing direct deposits for wages and government benefits. That outreach targeted unbanked and underbanked consumers, many of whom used Cash App as their main financial account. Regulators alleged that Block expanded rapidly without building enough support for customers who lost access to accounts or reported unauthorized transactions. Discover more Geographic Reference Mobile Apps & Add-Ons Several features also created openings for scammers. Cash App's quick sign-up system used limited identity verification, making it easier for fraudsters to open accounts. For years, users had no official phone support and often searched online for help. Some reached fake customer service numbers operated by scammers who then took control of accounts or accessed other financial information. The company also ran its Cash App Fridays promotion, encouraging people to post their public $cashtag for a chance to win prizes. Fraudsters used those posts to contact users, falsely claim they had won and trick them into sharing login details. Regulators said Block knew about the scams but continued the promotion for years. Consumers also reported being locked out after automated security systems flagged transactions. Some waited weeks to regain access to their money. Fraud victims were sometimes left without reimbursement because investigations were delayed, unauthorized transactions were not properly reviewed or refunds were not issued when required. Under the settlement, Cash App must maintain customer support capable of handling fraud complaints and account lockouts. Live support must be available around the clock, with human phone assistance for at least 13.5 hours each day and live chat for at least 18 hours. Block must also educate users about common scams, end marketing practices known to increase fraud, investigate complaints properly and reimburse consumers for unauthorized transactions when legally required. The agreement further reaffirms Block's commitment to distribute between $75 million and $120 million to consumers nationwide through a separate settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Together, the actions put pressure on Cash App to match its promise of easy money movement with stronger protection when something goes wrong.

BBC
Apr 15th, 2026
Snapchat owner cuts 1,000 jobs as says AI will reduce repetitive work.

Snapchat owner cuts 1,000 jobs as says AI will reduce repetitive work. 1 hour ago Kali HaysTechnology reporter Snap is the latest tech company to cut jobs, citing the growing ability of artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The Snapchat owner has axed about 1,000 employees - 16% of staff - and withdrawn hundreds of open job roles, according to a financial disclosure. Evan Spiegel, Snap's co-founder and CEO, told employees the company was in "a crucible moment" and the goal of the cuts was to reduce yearly costs by $500m (£368m). Spiegel said that workers who remain at the company will be using AI tools to "reduce repetitive work and increase velocity," as "small squads" of employees have been doing in recent months. "Change of this magnitude and at this speed is never easy and it will not be seamless," Spiegel added in his memo. This cut at Snap marks at least the third larger scale layoff at the company since 2022, when it conducted its first major layoff which impacted 20% of its staff at the time. Spiegel's comments on Wednesday are the first time he has pointed to AI as an explanation for staffing decisions. This year, activist investor Irenic Capital Management took a stake in Snap, saying in a public letter to Spiegel that it was "strange" the company remained unprofitable after 15 years in business and with hundreds of millions of monthly users. Irenic noted that an investor who put $1 into Snap when it went public in 2017 would be left with a stake worth only 23 cents today. An activist investor is a person or investment firm that buys shares in a company it believes is underperforming and then applies pressure for management and business changes. Snap now requires "a new way of working that is faster and more efficient, while pivoting towards profitable growth", Spiegel wrote in his memo to staff. His explanation echoed that of other tech executives this year who have begun citing the increased capability of AI technology, mainly tools that help software engineers do coding work, as they order their own mass job cuts. Already this year Amazon, Meta, Block, Pinterest and Atlassian, among others, have collectively laid off several thousand workers. Company executives have either pointed to increased use of AI tools meaning they need fewer workers, or noted that plans to spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year on investing in AI requires cost-cutting in other parts of the company. Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Block and the former leader of Twitter, said at the end of February that the rise of AI tools for tech workers "fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company". He also said people in the industry should expect further job cuts at "the majority of companies" over the next year.

Yahoo Finance
Apr 8th, 2026
Block launches Square Restaurant Inventory to deepen merchant ecosystem and drive revenue growth

Block has launched Square Restaurant Inventory by MarketMan globally, a tool providing restaurants with forecasting capabilities and ingredient-level insights within the Square platform. The integration enables merchants to manage recipes, batch preparation and menu optimisation without requiring multiple third-party systems, aiming to deepen Block's ecosystem and drive merchant engagement. On 31 March, Loop Capital analyst Dominick Gabriele initiated coverage of Block with a Buy rating and $75 price target, citing the company's differentiated point-of-sale tools and potential for above-industry gross profit growth despite near-term volatility from recent workforce reductions. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, Block offers financial technology services including seller services and Cash App peer-to-peer payments.