Analyst II, Strategic Insights

Summary

Join Affirm's Key & Enterprise Analytics team as a client-facing data expert, supporting our largest merchants. You will partner with Client Success, Sales, and Partnerships teams, creating business cases, insights, and dashboards. Responsibilities include optimizing decisions through analysis, scaling impact by standardizing use cases and automating analyses, and owning comprehensive analytics solutions. You will define KPIs and methodologies, guide cross-functional teams, and design and execute experiments to optimize GTM efforts. The ideal candidate possesses strong analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent communication abilities, and a proven track record of driving projects from strategy to implementation. Affirm offers a competitive compensation package, including comprehensive health benefits, flexible spending stipends, generous time off, and an employee stock purchase plan.

Requirements

• Passion and drive to disrupt both the retail and lending industry for the better
• A desire to use data to drive business optimizations and enough curiosity to dig in deep to find the right data to drive impact
• 3+ years of experience in an analytically-driven role (consulting, finance, analytics, etc.)
• Track record of successfully driving projects from end to end (from building strategy to implementation
• Strong working knowledge of SQL, data visualization tools (e.g. Sigma, Looker, Tableau). Basic understanding or a demonstrated aptitude to learn Python is a plus
• Ability to create structure in ambiguous situations, such as aligning stakeholders, or choosing the most impactful data to drive decisions
• Enough laziness to find a faster way to do your least favorite tasks
• Humility and a team player - you go out of your way to help teammates

Responsibilities

• Optimize decisions and execution with analyses
• Partner with our Client Success, Sales, and Partnerships teams as the data SME for respective Revenue segments
• Create business cases, insights, and dashboards as well as handle experiments to engage Affirm’s external merchant base; demonstrating Affirm’s value proposition and product performance
• Create internal analyses to assess Revenue performance, drive recommendations, and inform critical decisions; using insights to serve segment strategy and execution
• Scale impact
• Standardize common use cases, provide the analytics infrastructure, and automate analyses and dashboards to scale decisions and execution within Revenue and with top external merchants
• Own comprehensive analytics solution
• Define KPIs, performance benchmarks, and methodologies, including identifying and working with unstructured and structured data sources (in-house and third-party) to enable solutions and generate actionable insights
• Provide project and analytics guidance to a cross-functional team, acting as the analytics point of contact
• Propose, monitor, and contextualize experiment design and execution to drive optimizations of Affirm’s GTM efforts, empirically quantify the value of Affirm to our prospective merchants, and upsell enhanced offers to existing merchants

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