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 for teams to execute.
• 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 global money movement infrastructure ensuring scalability, compliance, and rapid product innovation.
• Translate vision into clear roadmaps and decisions for teams to execute.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Pay Grade - T Equity Grade - 18 Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills. Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.)