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Own Affirm’s B2B product marketing strategy and operating systems, including merchant narratives, segmentation, go-to-market planning, measurement, revenue enablement, and merchant feedback programs. Lead ambiguous cross-portfolio initiatives from discovery through commercialization, influence product and investment priorities, align Product, Revenue, Partnerships, Analytics, and Marketing, and coach teams toward stronger collaboration and execution.

Owns fraud performance analytics for depository products, including monitoring losses, approval rates, false positives, customer friction, and risk metrics. Builds data models, transformation pipelines, dashboards, scorecards, and monitoring frameworks. Conducts fraud deep dives and develops optimized rules, policies, thresholds, models, and decision strategies. Partners with Product, Engineering, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, Fraud Operations, and Risk teams to improve fraud detection and support product launches.

Manages the Marketplace Performance software engineering team, setting technical strategy and delivering business-critical backend and consumer marketplace systems. Partners with product, design, analytics, revenue, and merchant teams; oversees system reliability, monitoring, testing, on-call operations, and technical standards. Develops engineering talent, drives quality and ownership, and contributes to Affirm’s ads platform and marketplace monetization initiatives.

Lead backend engineering strategy for Affirm’s international Identity team. Design and launch highly available distributed systems supporting KYC, user lifecycle management, and identity decisioning. Drive technical planning, cross-functional collaboration, operational excellence, monitoring, testing, and on-call readiness. Establish engineering quality standards, influence architecture, mentor team members, and deliver scalable systems using Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.

Lead four Account Executives selling platform partnerships to ISVs and SaaS providers. Define the ISV go-to-market strategy, manage complex negotiations, oversee opportunities from creation through launch and activation, improve prospecting and forecasting, and represent partner insights in commercial and product decisions. Responsibilities include coaching, hiring, talent planning, performance management, executive relationship building, and driving revenue growth across the platform ecosystem.

Lead and scale product teams responsible for Affirm’s loan lifecycle and money movement platforms. Define long-term strategy, oversee roadmaps, guide platform architecture, and ensure scalable, compliant, reliable financial systems. Manage 6–10 product managers, including people managers, while aligning Engineering, Finance, Treasury, Legal, Compliance, and executive stakeholders. Drive international expansion, establish platform health metrics, and improve settlement, reconciliation, and operational performance.

Manage post-sale relationships with merchant partners, driving retention, product adoption, upsells, cross-sells, revenue growth, and account health. Conduct performance reviews, address client needs, gather feedback, and coordinate with internal teams to resolve issues and execute client strategies. Maintain product expertise while aligning client goals with company priorities.

Lead Affirm’s enterprise AI security review program, threat model LLM and agentic systems, review code and configurations, and develop security guardrails, tooling, policies, and monitoring. Evaluate AI-enabled SaaS vendors, identify emerging vulnerabilities, support incident response, and lead cross-functional initiatives across Security, Engineering, Legal, Privacy, and Compliance. The role requires expertise in AI security architecture, threat modeling, IAM, cloud infrastructure, policy-as-code, and regulated enterprise environments.

Own and deliver engineering onboarding across North America and EMEA, including technical learning, hands-on programming, onboarding plans, and community building. Partner with Engineering, Developer Productivity, SRE, Security, Architecture, Product, and corporate teams to create credible content covering AI-assisted development, testing, deployment, observability, and production support. Coordinate cohort logistics, gather feedback, and continuously improve onboarding operations and experiences.

Build and scale backend data platforms and services for real-time loan origination and financial reporting. Lead quarterly delivery, guide engineers, define technical plans, collaborate with product and design partners, improve reliability and operational practices, monitor service metrics, participate in on-call support, uphold engineering quality standards, and mentor team members. The role requires developing highly available distributed systems and scalable data pipelines using technologies such as Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes, Spark, and Airflow.