Director of Product Management, Financial Platforms

The Director of Product Management will lead and scale the teams behind two critical domains: Loans Lifecycle and Money Movement. This role requires 10+ years of product management experience, including 3-5 years managing and developing PM teams.

Loans Lifecycle

• Define the multi-year product strategy for foundational loan systems, ensuring scalability, compliance, and rapid product innovation.
• Translate vision into clear roadmaps and decisions for teams to execute.
• Set the bar for craft, create development paths, and cultivate a culture of ownership, rigor, and candor.
• Be the domain authority on loan lifecycle mechanics, payment rails, settlement flows, and institutional transfers.
• Partner with Engineering, Accounting, Treasury, Capital Markets, Legal, Compliance, and Client Success teams to navigate complexity, balance stakeholder needs, and build trust through clear communication and strong delivery.
• Drive platform scalability and international expansion by architecting strategies that simplify domain boundaries, standardize loan behaviors, and unlock faster time-to-market for new geographies and product lines.
• Measure and improve platform health by defining success metrics and holding teams accountable to reliability and accuracy standards.
• Influence up and across the organization by presenting strategy, tradeoffs, and priorities to senior leadership and shaping organizational thinking on investments and priorities.

Money Movement

• Own the vision and strategy for Money Movement, ensuring scalability, compliance, and rapid product innovation.
• Translate vision into clear roadmaps and decisions for teams to execute.
• Set the bar for craft, create development paths, and cultivate a culture of ownership, rigor, and candor.
• Be the domain authority on payment rails, settlement flows, cross-border transfers, and reliability and accuracy standards.
• Partner with Engineering, Accounting, Treasury, Capital Markets, Legal, Compliance, and Client Success teams to navigate complexity, balance stakeholder needs, and build trust through clear communication and strong delivery.
• Drive platform scalability and international expansion by architecting strategies that simplify domain boundaries, standardize money movement behaviors, and unlock faster time-to-market for new geographies and product lines.
• Measure and improve platform health by defining success metrics and holding teams accountable to reliability and accuracy standards.
• Influence up and across the organization by presenting strategy, tradeoffs, and priorities to senior leadership and shaping organizational thinking on investments and priorities.

Qualifications

• Deep experience in loans or lending systems, understanding loan lifecycle mechanics, platform architecture for loan servicing, and compliance and operational requirements.
• Meaningful experience in money movement, payments infrastructure, or financial operations, fluency in payment rails, settlement flows, cross-border transfers, and reliability and accuracy standards.
• Experience in fintech, financial services, or banking, familiarity with BNPL, platform products, or backend infrastructure, and capital markets background.
• Demonstrated ability to set and execute long-term platform strategy in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• Strong technical fluency, comfortable diving into data models and API discussions with engineers and holding informed opinions.
• Proficiency with AI-assisted tools to accelerate work and raise the bar for the team.
• Track record of building and scaling distributed, high-performing PM teams across multiple domains simultaneously.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, aligning Legal, Finance, Engineering, and executive leadership around a common direction.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication, telling crisp, data-driven stories to diverse audiences.

Pay & Benefits

Base pay ranges from $267,000 - $327,000 per year in the United States, depending on location. Affirm offers competitive benefits including health care coverage, flexible spending wallets, time off, ESPP, and more. Remote work is available, with some roles requiring occasional office visits.