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Director of Product Management, Financial Platforms

Affirm · San Diego, CA · 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.

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.
  • Guide product, engineering, and business partners on tradeoffs, best practices, and platform decisions.
  • Partner with Engineering, Accounting, Treasury, Capital Markets, Legal, Compliance, and Client Success teams to navigate complexity and balance stakeholder needs.
  • Hold teams accountable to reliability and accuracy standards for critical systems.
  • Present strategy, tradeoffs, and priorities to senior leadership and shape organizational thinking on investments and priorities.

Money Movement

  • Own the vision and strategy for global money movement infrastructure.
  • Define the multi-year product strategy for foundational money movement systems, ensuring scalability, compliance, and rapid product innovation.
  • Translate vision into clear roadmaps and decisions for teams to execute.
  • Partner with Engineering, Accounting, Treasury, Capital Markets, Legal, Compliance, and Client Success teams to navigate complexity and balance stakeholder needs.
  • Hold teams accountable to reliability and accuracy standards for critical systems.
  • Present strategy, tradeoffs, and priorities to senior leadership and shape organizational thinking on investments and priorities.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of product management experience, including 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 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.
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Pay & Benefits

  • Pay Range: $267,000 - $327,000 per year (USA, all other U.S. states)
  • $300,000 - $360,000 per year (USA, CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT)
  • Base pay is part of a total compensation package including equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending, and benefits (100% subsidized medical coverage, dental, and vision for you and your dependents).
  • Remote-first company with flexible work arrangements.
  • Benefits include health care coverage, flexible spending wallets, time off, ESPP, and more.

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