Director of Product, Partners & Platforms

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.

Our mission to deliver honest financial products that improve lives extends beyond borders. Consumers across the globe need safe, transparent financing. Our retail partners need Affirm to be there for them, wherever that might be. To help achieve this vision, we are expanding our product lines and becoming a global company.

As a Director of Product on the Network Growth team at Affirm, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of consumer financial services, commerce, and payments. The Network Growth team is responsible for growing the adoption of the Affirm payments amongst merchants, consumers and partners. We do this by building Merchant Solutions that scale whether by building our own merchant self service experiences or growing via strategic partners and custom, API-based solutions. You will work closely with cross-functional teams including Sales, Partnerships, Design, Engineering, Product Analytics, Finance, Risk and more to define and build end-to-end solutions that will help enable Affirm to merchants at scale via our own first-party solutions or via our key partners. You should be outcomes driven with a very high bias for action and are undaunted by multiple dependencies both internal and external.

What You'll Do

• Integrations & Enterprise Expertise: Leverage your deep enterprise experience to navigate complex integrations and ensure seamless partnerships inclusive of detailed partner / merchant kickoffs.
• API Development: Demonstrate a strong familiarity with developing internal and external APIs, enabling a native experience whether within Affirm’s hosted experience or within a partner's existing ecosystem.
• Partnership Excellence: Collaborate externally with marquee partners to develop custom, scalable integrations that align with their unique needs while supporting Affirm's mission and objectives.
• Go-To-Market Alignment: Pair from opportunity identification through delivery with GTM teams inclusive of Sales, Revenue Operations, Partnerships and Product Marketing
• Detailed Program Management: Provide visibility into key workstreams and programs, inclusive of P&L details. Pipeline, roadmap, risks and upcoming trade-offs.
• Autonomous Innovation & Planning: Work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where ambiguity is a constant and exercise autonomy to drive product innovation and make strategic decisions. Wholly responsible for Quarterly, Bi-Annual, Annual, and Budget planning processes, inclusive of planning for partner planning processes.
• Decision Frameworks: Apply common decision-making frameworks to evaluate opportunities and risks, and draft Decision Memos to communicate and guide these decisions.
• Product Opportunity Identification: Identify new product opportunities and drive a comprehensive roadmap that’s informed by data analysis, qualitative research, and your own discovery.
• Senior Leader Interaction: Interact effectively with senior leaders both internally and externally, presenting insights and strategies that drive our company’s objectives.
  
  

What We Look For

• 10 years of product management experience in the software tech industry
• Equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
• Track record of experimenting and successfully launching products at scale
• Experience working with external partners and being an ambassador of your company and company’s brand
• Familiarity considering and building within partner ecosystems
• Solid technical chops that allow you to have in depth technical discussions and opinions
• Outstanding written and verbal communication with a diverse stakeholder audience
• Experience balancing time to market and rigor, striking the right balance between flexibility and consistency, and comfortable communicating priorities
• An obsession for getting the details right, but also knowing how to ship on time
• Comfortable in an ambiguous, matrixed organization
• Ability to identify product opportunities through data analysis, qualitative research, and field research.
  
  

Base Pay Grade - T

Equity Grade - USA 18

Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.

Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.)

USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $260,000 - $340,000

USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $230,000 - $310,000

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.

Benefits

We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:

• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
  
  

We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.

[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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