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 Affirm's 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.
• Enable platform scalability and international expansion.
• Measure and improve platform health.
• Influence up and across the organization.
• Regularly present strategy, tradeoffs, and priorities to senior leadership.
• Shape organizational thinking on where to invest and what to deprioritize.

Money Movement

• Own the vision and strategy for Money Movement.
• Define the multi-year product strategy for Affirm's global money movement infrastructure, ensuring it is scalable, compliant, and capable of supporting 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.
• Enable platform scalability and international expansion.
• Measure and improve platform health.
• Influence up and across the organization.
• Regularly present strategy, tradeoffs, and priorities to senior leadership.
• Shape 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 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.
• 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.

What We Look For

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Pay Grade - T
• Equity Grade - 18