Remote Staff Technical Program Manager

Summary

Join Affirm's team as a Staff Technical Program Manager to oversee high visibility programs for our team and streamline processes for building great customer and merchant products.

Requirements

• 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

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 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

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