Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Specialist, Affirm
CA$80-100k
+Employee stock purchase plan
POS installment loans
Be an early applicant
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$80-100k
+Employee stock purchase plan
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- 3 to 4+ years of program/project management experience, ideally in DEI or people-related programs
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an appetite for distilling sophisticated information into what matters most. Simpler is better
- Experience in simultaneously executing short-term and long-term projects, with attention to detail and organization
- Strong relationship-building skills and ability to work collaboratively with diverse cross-functional teams
- Ability to maturely handle sensitive and confidential information
- Passionate about DEI and enthusiastic about growing DEI knowledge for yourself and others
- Data-driven problem solver and strategist
- Creative thinker who can generate innovative program ideas to improve the Affirmer experience and has a growth mindset (i.e., you're excited to try new things and believe challenges will help you grow)
- A “how can we make this better?” mentality. You recognize that “perfect” is not an end state and continually drive for program improvement
What the job involves
- As a DEI Specialist, you'll work closely with the DEI Manager (to whom this position reports) on executing our DEI strategy across the company
- You'll partner cross-functionally on projects and programs that support DEI at Affirm, and you'll have the opportunity to project manage small-mid scale programs from start to finish and support the day-to-day operations of larger-scale programs
- Drive small-mid scale, end-to-end projects and programs that support Affirm's DEI strategy
- Provide project and program management support, including monitoring project progress and keeping projects and tasks on track, keeping cross-functional partners appropriately engaged and informed, and actively resolving issues
- Assist with vendor management, project budgeting/planning/logistics management, and internal/external communication on DEI matters
- Collaborate with our People Business Partners, Onboarding/Engagement/Learning & Development/Talent Management partners, ERG leaders, and business leaders to understand DEI needs
- Help analyze engagement and DEI survey data; help set and execute DEI goals and action plans using data
- Serve as first-in-line support for team support channels (e.g. , Workday ticketing and general learning Slack messages from employees)
- Support the administrative elements across our portfolio of programs (e.g. , calendaring, drafting employee communications, building project plans, tracking deliverables, updating and organizing data, and responding to employee/manager questions)
- Support maintaining data integrity for our program's systems/tools and dashboards to help track programs' effectiveness using various metrics
- Input, analyze, synthesize data, and complete external research to identify patterns and new ideas that can help improve programs and processes
Our take
Affirm offers point-of-sale loans to consumers, working with merchants like Shopify, KAYAK, and Walmart. Buy now, pay later transactions have grown in popularity in recent years, and this business is tapping into the market with a totally different approach to credit - by delivering the Affirm card, the first US debit card with the option to pay-over-time.
Boating over 15 million customers and 245,000+ merchants, the company offers flexible payback options, ranging from 3 to 36 months. The interest rates run between 0% and 30%, so, while they are not necessarily the cheapest option, Affirm prides itself on having no fees for late payments, no hidden charges, and total transparency about what people will pay before they take out a loan.
Affirm collects payments from the customers and pays the merchants directly, shouldering the risk itself. The company has boosted its market share, expanding its availability beyond the US to include most of Canada, and continues to launch new features and create new partnerships towards bettering its offering.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2020
$500m
SERIES G
Apr 2019
$300m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Spending wallets
- Supportive communities
- Remote-first workforce
- Generous time off
- Health benefits
- Mental healthcare
- Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay
- We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
- We offer 24 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge
- Learning & development
Company values
- People Come First
- No Fine Print
- It's On Us
- Simpler is Better
- Push the Envelope
Company HQ
Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Max Levchin
(CEO)Has founded/co-founded numerous companies, holding various executive positions at each, including Paypal, Slide, Glow, HVF Labs, and SciFi VC. Also worked at large brands including Google, Yelp, Yahoo, and Evernote.
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