Senior Technical Account Manager – Strategic Alliances

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About the role

  • Senior Technical Account Manager maintaining strategic merchant integrations for Affirm’s pay-over-time platform. Troubleshooting operational issues, delivering SLAs, designing solutions, and leading technical initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Own operational technical account management across Affirm's strategic alliance portfolio, including alerting, monitoring, troubleshooting, and technical inquiries
  • Deliver against SLAs and proactively surface technical risks before customer impact
  • Conduct investigations and root-cause analysis across logs, queries, and integration data; own resolution end to end
  • Drive technical initiatives and partner with internal and merchant stakeholders on expansions, promotions, product adoption, and integration optimizations
  • Design and deliver custom integration solutions based on Affirm's standard integrations
  • Act as technical lead for internal projects, defining milestones and executing roadmaps
  • Create and update playbooks, runbooks, alerting, and UAT certification plans; reduce KTLO work
  • Partner with Product and Engineering leads to prioritize projects and influence the roadmap as the merchant voice
  • Mentor less-experienced TAMs and contribute to interviewing and team development
  • Grow into ownership of a dedicated strategic alliance account book over the first 6–12 months

Requirements

  • At least six years in a technical, external-facing role such as Technical Account Management, Solutions/Partner Engineering, or Solutions Architecture
  • Ideally experience within FinTech, payments, or SaaS
  • Track record of owning the operational health of technical accounts and delivering against SLAs
  • Ability to run alerting, monitoring, troubleshooting, and technical inquiries across accounts
  • Ability to independently scope and deliver complex, open-ended technical work
  • Strong project management and follow-through
  • Deep understanding of RESTful APIs, webhooks, and HTTP
  • Hands-on experience using tools like Postman to debug and validate integrations
  • Experience with API integrations and designing custom solutions
  • Ability to read and understand production-level HTML, JavaScript, SQL, and ideally a server-side language such as Python
  • Ability to author novel queries to diagnose merchant or system issues
  • Ability to diagnose issues using browser developer consoles, log analysis, observability platforms such as Snowflake and Chronosphere, and ticketing systems such as Jira and Notion
  • Excellent verbal and written communication
  • Ability to tailor explanations to non-technical leaders and technical teams
  • Ability to develop relationships with technical decision-makers and secure written consensus on integration milestones
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor teammates, set best practices, and lead technical initiatives
  • Familiarity with the payments ecosystem, web/mobile application architecture, e-commerce platforms, payment gateways, or point-of-sale systems is nice to have

Benefits

  • Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending
  • 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for employees and dependents
  • Flexible time off
  • Generous holiday calendars
  • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) to buy Affirm stock at a discount
  • Remote-first flexibility
  • In-person onboarding experience
  • Inclusive interview process and accommodations for candidates with disabilities

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$133,000 - CA$183,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

JavaScriptPythonSQL

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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