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.