Staff Technical Program Manager

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About the role

  • Staff Technical Program Manager at Affirm managing technical programs and driving strategic initiatives. Overseeing cross-functional collaborations to build consumer products and platform capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Drive complex, multi-disciplinary, and highly visible technical programs in service of our team’s mission of expanding our consumer product suite and platform capabilities.
  • Coordinate across engineering teams and non-engineering stakeholders through the full program lifecycle to plan requirements, identify risks, manage program schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company.
  • Understand technical implementation at the architecture level and propose technical alternatives, ask questions that clarify priorities and push the team to be effective, and develop domain and technical knowledge.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to plan requirements, identify risks, manage program schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company.
  • Track progress, resolve dependencies, evaluate risks, and communicate status to upper management and program stakeholders, and engage the program teams to achieve goals.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of proven experience managing technical programs.
  • Passion and drive to change consumer finance for the better.
  • Organized and strategic approach to collaborating across multi-disciplinary teams.
  • Obsesses over getting the details right but knows how to ship on time.
  • Working and driving strategic programs and building a remote friendly culture.
  • Actively mentors and levels up team members.
  • Track record of successfully driving complex large technology applications and geographically distributed backend systems.
  • Track record of strong stakeholder management with Engineering, Product, Design, Analytics, and other cross-functional teams.
  • Prior experience in FinTech, Payments or Commerce is a plus.

Benefits

  • Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
  • Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
  • Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
  • ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$150,000 - CA$200,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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