Senior Technical Program Manager

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 Senior 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.

What You’ll Do

• 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 drive alignment with cross-functional partners across the company
• Track progress, resolve dependencies, evaluate risks, and communicate status to upper management and project stakeholders, and engage the project teams to achieve goals

What We Look For

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 5 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
• 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 Fin Tech, Payments or Commerce is a plus

We offer a competitive compensation package, including a salary range of $125,000 - $175,000 per year, equity rewards, and benefits such as 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental, and vision for you and your dependents.

Benefits

• 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

Affirm is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We believe in providing a fair and inclusive hiring process and are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support.