Staff Technical Program Manager
Remote US
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 Staff 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 communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company
- Track progress, resolve dependencies, evaluate risks, and communicate status to upper management and program stakeholders, and engage the program teams to achieve goals
What we look for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 8 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.
- Actively mentors and levels up team members
- 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 - N
Equity Grade - 10
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Benefits/Perks100% subsidized medical coverage Competitive benefits Dental and vision for dependents Employee stock purchase plan Equity rewards ESPP Flexible Spending Flexible Spending Wallets Health care coverage Inclusive interview experience Inclusive interview experience for all Monthly stipends Monthly stipends for health and wellness Remote-first company Subsidized medical coverage Time off Transparent pay structure
Tasks- Communicate with stakeholders
- Coordinate across teams
- Design
- Evaluate risks
- Manage program schedules
- Oversee technical programs
Agile methodologies Analytics Backend Backend systems Commerce Cross-functional Collaboration Finance Fintech Payments Program Management REST Risk Management Software Development Stakeholder management Technical Implementation Technical Program Management
Experience8 years
EducationBachelor's Bachelor's degree Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Computer Science Electrical Engineering Engineering Finance
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