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
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