Analyst, Affirm
Strategic Insights
CA$91.8-133.1k
Plus stock purchase plan
POS installment loans
Job no longer available
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$91.8-133.1k
Plus stock purchase plan
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for intelligent, driven professionals to join our Client Strategy & Insights team
- The ideal candidate will have strong analytical and problem solving skills, and have the ability to craft comprehensive narratives for both internal and external audiences of all levels
- In addition to analytical rigor, the ideal candidate has strong interpersonal skills to work within the organization and with clients to drive forward recommendations
- 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 a client-facing, analytically-driven role (consulting, finance, analytics, etc.)
- Track record of successfully driving projects from end to end (from building strategy to execution)
- Strong working knowledge of analytical tools, including SQL, and Excel. Basic understanding or a demonstrated aptitude to learn Python
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team environment and cross-functionally with peers and executives
- Ability to craft compelling, and cohesive narratives, and to communicate findings and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to apply business context to know what insight and implications will lead to actionable change, while having enough curiosity to find the story within the data
- Ability to think creatively and critically and thrive in a fast-paced, and dynamic work environment
- 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
What the job involves
- This client-facing team is responsible for supporting and growing our largest merchants with our Client Success teams, supporting Sales teams in creating business cases, and creating scalable, reporting and analyses
- Build Relationships: You’ll partner with both internal and external stakeholders. You’ll build cross-functional relationships and partner with our Client Success, Sales, and Data/Analytics teams to grow our existing portfolio of accounts, and convey Affirm’s value propositions to prospective merchants. Develop client relationships to ensure the best outcome for both the merchant and Affirm
- Make Data Driven Decisions: You’ll track, analyze, and report performance of financing programs and A/B tests. Build out analytics/insights that are value-adds to our merchant partners and differentiate Affirm from competitors. You’ll use data and visualizations to guide conversations, and tell compelling stories to audiences of various levels
- Scale Out Impact: You’ll create repeatable analyses and dashboards to help scale out the impact to your partners internally and externally
- Keep Learning: You’ll become an expert in the retail POS financing and e-commerce space, and maintain a strong understanding of our evolving data warehouse, and financing products
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
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.
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-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
Founders
Max Levchin
(CEO)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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