Senior Technical Program Manager

Summary

Join Affirm, a company reinventing credit, as a Senior Technical Program Manager to oversee high-visibility programs and streamline processes for building customer and merchant products. You will help Product and Engineering teams develop processes and frameworks for quality software, evaluating new technologies for potential features and products. This role involves driving complex, multi-disciplinary programs, coordinating across teams, understanding technical implementation, and partnering with various departments. You will track progress, resolve dependencies, and communicate status to upper management. The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, 5+ years of experience managing technical programs, and a passion for improving consumer finance. Affirm offers competitive benefits, including 100% subsidized medical coverage, flexible spending wallets, and competitive time off.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

Prior experience in FinTech, Payments or Commerce 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