Senior Technical Program Manager
Remote Canada
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 FinTech, Payments or Commerce is a plus
Base Pay Grade - L
Equity Grade - 6
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 monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents). In addition, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company).
CAN base pay range per year: $125,000 - $175,000
#LI-Remote
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. 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.
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Limited number of roles remain office-based Must work occasionally from assigned office Remote work within Canada
Benefits/Perks100% subsidized medical 100% subsidized medical coverage Competitive benefits Competitive vacation Competitive vacation and holiday schedules Dental Dental and vision Dental and vision coverage Employee stock purchase plan Equity Equity rewards ESPP Flexible Spending Flexible Spending Wallets Generous stipends Health and wellness stipends Health care coverage Inclusive interview experience Inclusive interview experience for all Monthly stipends Monthly stipends for health Remote-first company Subsidized medical coverage Tech spending Time off Transparent pay structure Vision Wellness Wellness and tech spending
Tasks- Communicate with stakeholders
- Coordinate across teams
- Design
- Drive alignment
- Evaluate risks
- Manage program schedules
- Managing
- Oversee technical programs
Agile methodologies Analytics Architecture Backend Backend systems Benefits Commerce Compensation Consumer Finance Cross-functional Collaboration Engineering Finance Fintech Payments Program Management REST Risk Management Software Development Stakeholder management Technical Implementation Technical Program Management Technology
Experience5 years
EducationBachelor's Bachelor's degree Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Science Electrical Engineering Engineering Equivalent practical experience Finance IT
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