Director of Product Management, Financial Platforms
Affirm · New York, NY · 1 wk ago
RemoteRemoteMarketing$300k–$360k/yrFull-time
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 they are scalable, compliant, and capable of supporting 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.
- Measure and improve platform health, defining success metrics such as settlement success rates, reconciliation coverage, exception volumes, and time-to-resolution.
- Enable platform scalability and international expansion by architecting strategies that simplify domain boundaries, standardize loan behaviors across products and markets, and unlock faster time-to-market for new geographies and product lines.
- 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.
- 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.
- Measure and improve platform health, defining success metrics such as settlement success rates, reconciliation coverage, exception volumes, and time-to-resolution.
- Enable platform scalability and international expansion by architecting strategies that simplify domain boundaries, standardize payment rails, settlement flows, cross-border transfers, and unlock faster time-to-market for new geographies and product lines.
- 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
- 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; 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 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 to $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. Affirm is remote-first and offers a Global Candidate Privacy Notice.