Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.
Trust is foundational to everything we do. As Affirm scales globally, protecting our consumers, merchants, and platform from fraud —while maintaining a seamless, friendly experience—is critical to our mission.
As a Senior Product Manager for Merchant Risk, you will play a key role in building and scaling systems, experiences, and policies that keep Affirm safe for consumers and merchants worldwide. You will drive the product strategy for the key product areas of merchant underwriting and portfolio management, and build robust systems to assess, monitor, and mitigate credit and fraud risk across platforms, channels, and geographies.
What You'll Do
Develop the vision and strategy for new and existing merchant risk products to maximize the value we provide to our customers and scale operational workflows
Drive product roadmap and own prioritization process for the Merchant Risk domain.
Lead and guide product direction for a cross-functional team of engineering, analytics, and platform partners. All with a platform mindset.
Define product requirements, work with engineering teams in sprint planning and prioritization of user stories to deliver the requirements, work with other stakeholders on planning and launching the products/features.
Engage and cultivate relationships with product, engineering, and platform partners to influence shared cross-team directions and manage risks or trade-offs.
Communicate clearly and crisply with leadership stakeholders and drive alignment across multiple teams and organizations through formal operational processes and in scrappy ways
What We Look For
5+ years experience in Product Management
Ability to work in a global environment across multiple locations and time zones to drive consensus in cross-functional teams
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to articulate customer problems and drive alignment with cross-functional teams and leadership
Comfortable in an ambiguous matrixed organization
The ability to turn incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous inputs into solid action plans
Excellent at identifying and prioritizing high impact initiatives
Experience developing data-driven strategies for streamlining and improving operations - all without sacrificing product quality
Familiarity with a highly regulated industry preferred
Pay Grade - N
Equity Grade - 6
Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.
Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.)
CAN base pay range per year: $150,000 - $200,000
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
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