Process Excellence Lead

Summary

Join Affirm's Shared Services team as a Process Excellence Lead and contribute to reinventing credit. You will be responsible for leading programs, coordinating cross-functional teams, and ensuring operational readiness for key business changes. Leverage your expertise in product and process to inform and execute new strategies, monitor effectiveness, and make recommendations for improvement. Accountability for key KPIs and resolution of technical issues is crucial. You will also design and implement process improvement initiatives using Lean Six Sigma methodologies and conduct user acceptance testing. This role requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills, experience in program management, and a deep understanding of the financial services regulatory environment. The position offers a competitive compensation package and benefits.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Program Management, Product Operations, Business Analytics or a similar function
• Certification in Six Sigma, Project Management or Design Thinking
• Experience in delivering large scale business changes
• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
• Experience in managing and delivering a successful programs, consistently meeting or exceeding timelines
• Experience using critical thinking/problem solving, leveraging data to articulate problems, develop recommendations, and measure performance
• Experience analyzing, documenting, and mapping operational processes through workflows
• Strong understanding of regulatory requirements in the financial services space

Responsibilities

• Operate as a product and process expert in business areas & pillars
• Inform, influence, and execute new strategies and tactics using sound analysis and impact metrics to drive product investments
• Monitor the effectiveness of key product work streams and make recommendations for improvement
• Hold Operations and Product accountable to key KPI’s, ensuring any missed metrics are addressed with a comprehensive mitigation plan
• Work with product and engineering partners to enhance their knowledge of the current customer experiences and existing opportunities
• Maintain and utilize complex dashboards for performance insights
• Attend Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly governance meetings with Product, Operations and Analytics
• Manage the development and implementation process of the company’s products and services
• Act as primary escalation point for Product and Engineering Leads and manage/coordinate the resolution of technical issues
• Plan, perform and implement process improvement initiatives utilizing Lean Six Sigma methodologies
• Organize, lead and facilitate cross-functional project teams
• Diagram, evaluate and maintain operational processes
• Design and conduct technical user acceptance testing providing feedback and guidance to product partners to improve process performance and product quality

Preferred Qualifications

SQL experience and ability to pull data from data warehouses is a plus

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