Director of Technical Program Management, Affirm
$200-277.8k
Salary dependent on location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training
POS installment loans
Job no longer available
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$200-277.8k
Salary dependent on location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- 10 years of experience managing technical projects in a software engineering domain
- 5 years of experience leading teams within technical program management or equivalent roles
- Experience creating, executing, and delivering against a product roadmap and driving business impact
- Experience collaborating across organizational boundaries, building relationships, and importing and exporting talent and ideas to achieve broader organizational goals
- Experience with cross-functional stakeholder management and leadership through influence
- Organizational leadership, with ability to collaborate with and influence teams across boundaries
- Committed to building inclusive teams and team culture, with outstanding business judgment, and excellent project management, problem solving, and analysis skills
- Comfort with changing specifications or standards, creating the conditions in which the team feels comfortable and capable of working through in response to ambiguity
- Nice to have- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
What the job involves
- Lead and inspire a distributed team of Technical Program Managers (TPM) drawn from several parts of the business, with a goal of driving alignment amongst key stakeholders
- Partner closely with Engineering VPs/Directors, Product Managers, and leadership to ensure TPM alignment with engineering and product priorities. Forecast resourcing requirements for TPM, while driving sublinear scaling
- Build a healthy, scalable, and growth-oriented TPM organization across multiple business units, geos and disciplines
- Lead TPM groups to streamline product and engineering planning processes, simplify execution, manage objective key results (OKRs), release on time, bring tooling efficiencies, and help teams in overall execution
- Manage communication of progress/status within the core team and with our XFN partners
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.
Boasting over 21M consumers and 337,000+ 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
-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
- Compensation: We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
- Spending Wallets: Access tech, food, lifestyle, and family planning wallets for your expenses
- Supportive Communities: Get involved with our employee resource groups and community groups
- Remote-first Workforce: If your role is remote, you can set up shop anywhere in your home country
- Generous Time Off: Take the time you need when life happens
- Health Benefits: Get a plan that fits your needs
- Mental Healthcare: Take care of your mind with great mental health programs
- Parental Leave: Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay
- Away Days: We offer 20 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge
- Learning & Development: Engage in exciting learning programs to level up your growth
Company HQ
Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Max Levchin
(Co-Founder & 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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