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.

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 that teams can execute against.
• Set the bar for craft, create development paths, and cultivate a culture of ownership, rigor, and candor.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Accounting, Treasury, Capital Markets, Legal, Compliance, and Client Success teams.
• Drive cross-functional alignment at scale, navigating complexity, balancing competing stakeholder needs, and building trust through clear communication and a strong delivery track record.
• Enable platform scalability and international expansion by architecting platform 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, including settlement success rates, reconciliation coverage, exception volumes, and time-to-resolution, and hold teams accountable to the reliability and accuracy standards these critical systems demand.
• Influence up and across the organization by regularly presenting strategy, tradeoffs, and priorities to senior leadership and shaping organizational thinking on where to invest and what to deprioritize.

Money Movement

• Own the vision and strategy for Money Movement, ensuring scalability, compliance, and rapid product innovation.
• Translate vision into clear roadmaps and decisions that teams can execute against.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Accounting, Treasury, Capital Markets, Legal, Compliance, and Client Success teams.
• Drive cross-functional alignment at scale, navigating complexity, balancing competing stakeholder needs, and building trust through clear communication and a strong delivery track record.
• Enable platform scalability and international expansion by architecting platform strategies that simplify domain boundaries, standardize payment rails, and unlock faster time-to-market for new geographies and product lines.
• Measure and improve platform health by defining success metrics, including settlement success rates, reconciliation coverage, exception volumes, and time-to-resolution, and hold teams accountable to the reliability and accuracy standards these critical systems demand.
• Influence up and across the organization by regularly presenting strategy, tradeoffs, and priorities to senior leadership and shaping organizational thinking on where to invest and what to deprioritize.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience, with at least 3–5 years managing and developing PM teams including people managers.
• Deep experience in loans or lending systems — understanding of loan lifecycle mechanics, platform architecture for loan servicing, and the compliance and operational requirements that come with it.
• Meaningful experience in money movement, payments infrastructure, or financial operations — fluency in payment rails, settlement flows, cross-border transfers, and the reliability and accuracy standards these systems demand.
• Experience in fintech, financial services, or banking; familiarity with BNPL, platform products, or backend infrastructure is strongly preferred; capital markets background is a plus.
• 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 (e.g., Claude, Cursor) to accelerate your own work and raise the bar for your team.
• Track record of building and scaling distributed, high-performing PM teams across multiple domains simultaneously.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills — able to align Legal, Finance, Engineering, and executive leadership around a common direction.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication; able to tell 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, experience, and job-related skills. Affirm offers competitive benefits including health care coverage, flexible spending wallets, time off, ESPP, and more. Affirm is remote-first and provides reasonable accommodations for candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.