People Intelligence Architect

Remote or Bay Area, CA

Block is structured as one company built from many blocks, with foundational teams including People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, and Platform Infrastructure Engineering providing support and guidance at the corporate level across business groups globally.

About the Role

This is a senior individual contributor position focused on building an integrated people data ecosystem. The role spans data engineering, data science, people analytics, and agentic AI — designing an end-to-end system that makes People data trustworthy, intelligent, and increasingly autonomous.

Key Responsibilities

Design and maintain reliable data pipelines unifying people data across HRIS, ATS, performance, compensation, and engagement systems
Model data for analytics and ML with a focus on quality, lineage, privacy, and governance of workforce data
Build predictive models for attrition, hiring funnel health, organizational network analysis, compensation equity, and workforce planning
Translate people questions into rigorous analyses and communicate results to leaders
Partner on semi-annual employee engagement surveys from design through actionable insights
Design and deploy AI agents and automations that operationalize insights without manual effort
Establish guardrails and human-in-the-loop patterns for safe, trustworthy agentic systems
Own system architecture connecting pipelines, models, and agents
Set technical direction and standards through code review, design documentation, and peer mentorship
Partner with People, Data Platform, Security, and Legal teams

Required Qualifications

8+ years relevant experience
Proven experience building data pipelines (SQL, Python, dbt/Airflow or similar, cloud data warehouses)
Solid data science foundation including statistics, ML, and experiment design
Working knowledge of people/HR data including sensitivity and ethics
Hands-on experience with LLMs and agentic frameworks
Strong systems thinking and design capability
Excellent communication with both executives and engineers

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with people analytics platforms (Workday, Visier)
Background in organizational network analysis or workforce planning
Experience deploying AI in regulated or privacy-sensitive environments

Compensation

Zone A: $135,200–$202,800 USD
Zone B: $125,800–$188,600 USD
Zone C: $119,000–$178,400 USD
Zone D: $108,200–$162,200 USD

Benefits

Remote work
Medical insurance
Flexible time off
Retirement savings plans
Modern family planning support

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