Director of Product, Affirm
Partners & Platforms
CA$203-283k
Plus an employee stock purchase plan
POS installment loans
Open for applications
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$203-283k
Plus an employee stock purchase plan
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of product management experience in the software tech industry
- Track record of experimenting and successfully launching products at scale
- Experience working with external partners and being an ambassador of your company and company’s brand
- Familiarity considering and building within partner ecosystems
- Solid technical chops that allow you to have in depth technical discussions and opinions
- Outstanding written and verbal communication with a diverse stakeholder audience
- Experience balancing time to market and rigor, striking the right balance between flexibility and consistency, and comfortable communicating priorities
- An obsession for getting the details right, but also knowing how to ship on time
- Comfortable in an ambiguous matrixed organization
- Ability to identify product opportunities through data analysis, qualitative research, and field research
What the job involves
- As a Director of Product on the Network Growth team at Affirm, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of consumer financial services, commerce, and payments
- The Network Growth team is responsible for growing the adoption of the Affirm payments amongst merchants, consumers and partners
- We do this by building Merchant Solutions that scale whether by building our own merchant self service experiences or growing via strategic partners and custom, API-based solutions
- You will work closely with cross-functional teams including Sales, Partnerships, Design, Engineering, Product Analytics, Finance, Risk and more to define and build end-to-end solutions that will help enable Affirm to merchants at scale via our own first-party solutions or via our key partners
- You should be outcomes driven with a very high bias for action and are undaunted by multiple dependencies both internal and external
- Integrations & Enterprise Expertise: Leverage your deep enterprise experience to navigate complex integrations and ensure seamless partnerships inclusive of detailed partner / merchant kickoffs
- API Development: Demonstrate a strong familiarity with developing internal and external APIs, enabling a native experience whether within Affirm’s hosted experience or within a partner's existing ecosystem
- Partnership Excellence: Collaborate externally with marquee partners to develop custom, scalable integrations that align with their unique needs while supporting Affirm's mission and objectives
- Go-To-Market Alignment: Pair from opportunity identification through delivery with GTM teams inclusive of Sales, Revenue Operations, Partnerships and Product Marketing
- Detailed Program Management: Provide visibility into key workstreams and programs, inclusive of P&L details. Pipeline, roadmap, risks and upcoming trade-offs
- Autonomous Innovation & Planning: Work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where ambiguity is a constant and exercise autonomy to drive product innovation and make strategic decisions. Wholly responsible for Quarterly, Bi-Annual, Annual, and Budget planning processes, inclusive of planning for partner planning processes
- Decision Frameworks: Apply common decision-making frameworks to evaluate opportunities and risks, and draft Decision Memos to communicate and guide these decisions
- Product Opportunity Identification: Identify new product opportunities and drive a comprehensive roadmap that’s informed by data analysis, qualitative research, and your own discovery
- Senior Leader Interaction: Interact effectively with senior leaders both internally and externally, presenting insights and strategies that drive our company’s objectives
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
Insights
Some 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
Articles
Leadership
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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