Director of IT Engineering, Affirm

CA$179-259k

+ Employee stock purchase plan

Expert level
Remote in Canada
Affirm

POS installment loans

Be an early applicant

Affirm

POS installment loans

1001+ employees

FintechB2CPersonal financePaymentsSaaS

Be an early applicant

CA$179-259k

+ Employee stock purchase plan

Expert level
Remote in Canada

1001+ employees

FintechB2CPersonal financePaymentsSaaS

Company mission

To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.

Role

Who you are

  • 10+ years of experience with IT management or related experience
  • Hands-on experience working in a matrixed organization
  • An understanding of leveraging Jamf MDM to ensure accurate, secure, and efficient data governance
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Experience with negotiation and resolving conflict from a place of listening and collaboration

What the job involves

  • Join the IT Engineering team to help build the next chapter of enterprise IT at Affirm – ensuring great employee experiences and supporting the company’s ongoing growth. As a remote-first company, our tools and technology are critical to enabling all Affirmers; if you're passionate about delivering work with meaningful impact, this is the place for you!
  • We’re looking for a Director of IT to lead our Asset Management, Logistics, and Client Engineering functions. In this role, you will be directly responsible for driving our IT maturity forward and enabling the enterprise’s future growth
  • You will partner closely with the SAAS Engineering and IT Support teams to deliver process and technology solutions that enable them to support our internal customers while meeting our security, compliance and business objectives
  • This role will report directly to the Senior Director, IT Engineering
  • Define and implement Affirm’s ITSM strategy
  • Implement new Asset management platform
  • Define and track health metrics
  • Develop software asset management strategy and approach
  • Recommend cmdb approach that makes sense for managing a primarily SAAS environment
  • Establish IT governance and change control processes as needed
  • Ensure internal policy adherence
  • Lead the Client Engineering Team
  • Remotely deploy and manage Affirm devices
  • Define and implement OS version testing strategy
  • Improve Affirm’s security posture through active vulnerability management
  • Responsible for logistics and hardware acquisition
  • Help develop IT’s 3-year strategy
  • Serve as a trusted member of the IT leadership team
  • Navigate and manage within an environment of ambiguity with diverse partners

Our take

Affirm offers point-of-sale loans to consumers, working with merchants like Shopify, KAYAK, and Walmart. Buy now, pay later transactions have grown in popularity in recent years, and this business is tapping into the market with a totally different approach to credit - by delivering the Affirm card, the first US debit card with the option to pay-over-time.

Boating over 15 million customers and 245,000+ merchants, the company offers flexible payback options, ranging from 3 to 36 months. The interest rates run between 0% and 30%, so, while they are not necessarily the cheapest option, Affirm prides itself on having no fees for late payments, no hidden charges, and total transparency about what people will pay before they take out a loan.

Affirm collects payments from the customers and pays the merchants directly, shouldering the risk itself. The company has boosted its market share, expanding its availability beyond the US to include most of Canada, and continues to launch new features and create new partnerships towards bettering its offering.

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-11% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Sep 2020

$500m

SERIES G

Apr 2019

$300m

SERIES F

Total funding: $1.1bn

Company benefits

  • Spending wallets
  • Supportive communities
  • Remote-first workforce
  • Generous time off
  • Health benefits
  • Mental healthcare
  • Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay
  • We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
  • We offer 24 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge
  • Learning & development

Company values

  • People Come First
  • No Fine Print
  • It's On Us
  • Simpler is Better
  • Push the Envelope

Company HQ

Chinatown, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Has founded/co-founded numerous companies, holding various executive positions at each, including Paypal, Slide, Glow, HVF Labs, and SciFi VC. Also worked at large brands including Google, Yelp, Yahoo, and Evernote.

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