Staff Technical Program Manager

September 17

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eCommerce • Payments • Installment Loans • Millennials • Financial Services

1001 - 5000

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01

Description

• 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.