Staff Technical Program Manager

About the Position

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.

We're looking for an experienced, motivated Staff Technical Program Manager to oversee high visibility programs for our team and streamline our processes for building great customer and merchant products. As our products scale in complexity to meet our accelerating business and expanding product lines, our program management practices need to scale with it. You will help our Product and Engineering teams develop processes and frameworks for building quality software, while evaluating new technology developments to drive potential features and products.

Responsibilities

• Drive complex, multi-disciplinary, and highly visible technical programs in service of our team’s mission of expanding our consumer product suite and platform capabilities.
• Coordinate across engineering teams and non-engineering stakeholders through the full program lifecycle to plan requirements, identify risks, manage program schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company.
• Understand technical implementation at the architecture level and propose technical alternatives, ask questions that clarify priorities and push the team to be effective, and develop domain and technical knowledge.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to plan requirements, identify risks, manage program schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company.
• Track progress, resolve dependencies, evaluate risks, and communicate status to upper management and program stakeholders, and engage the program teams to achieve goals.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of proven experience managing technical programs.
• Passion and drive to change consumer finance for the better.
• Organized and strategic approach to collaborating across multi-disciplinary teams.
• Obsesses over getting the details right but knows how to ship on time.
• Working and driving strategic programs and building a remote friendly culture.
• Actively mentors and levels up team members.
• Track record of successfully driving complex large technology applications and geographically distributed backend systems.
• Track record of strong stakeholder management with Engineering, Product, Design, Analytics, and other cross-functional teams.
• Prior experience in FinTech, Payments or Commerce is a plus.

We Offer

• Competitive salary range: $173,000 - $255,000 per year (based on location and experience).
• Equity rewards.
• Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending.
• 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental, and vision for you and your dependents.
• Flexible Spending Wallets for various lifestyle needs and family forming expenses.
• Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount.

About the Company

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.

We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. We are committed to providing an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities, and will provide reasonable accommodations as needed.

[For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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