Director of Product Management, Financial Platforms
The Director of Product Management will lead and scale the teams behind two critical domains at Affirm: Loans Lifecycle and Money Movement. This role requires 10+ years of product management experience, with at least 3–5 years managing and developing PM teams including people managers. Key responsibilities include:
Leading and growing a high-performing PM team.
Setting the bar for craft, creating development paths, and cultivating a culture of ownership, rigor, and candor.
Own the vision and strategy for Loans Lifecycle and Money Movement, defining multi-year product strategies for foundational loan systems and global money movement infrastructure.
Translating vision into clear roadmaps and decisions that teams can execute against.
Serving as the executive-level subject matter expert on loan lifecycle mechanics, payment rails, settlement flows, and institutional transfers.
Driving cross-functional alignment at scale with Engineering, Accounting, Treasury, Capital Markets, Legal, Compliance, and Client Success teams.
Partnering closely with these teams to navigate complexity, balance competing stakeholder needs, and build trust through clear communication and a strong delivery record.
Enabling platform scalability and international expansion by architecting strategies that simplify domain boundaries, standardize loan behaviors, and unlock faster time-to-market for new geographies and product lines.
Measuring and improving platform health by defining success metrics such as settlement success rates, reconciliation coverage, exception volumes, and time-to-resolution, and holding teams accountable to reliability and accuracy standards.
Influencing up and across the organization by regularly presenting strategy, tradeoffs, and priorities to senior leadership and shaping organizational thinking on investments and priorities.
Vision and Strategy
Own the vision and strategy for Loans Lifecycle and Money Movement, ensuring they are scalable, compliant, and capable of supporting rapid product innovation. Define multi-year product strategies for foundational loan systems and global money movement infrastructure.
Domain Authority
Be the domain authority on loan lifecycle mechanics, payment rails, settlement flows, and institutional transfers. Guide product, engineering, and business partners on tradeoffs, best practices, and platform decisions.
Platform Scalability and International Expansion
Architect platform strategies that simplify domain boundaries, standardize loan behaviors across products and markets, and unlock faster time-to-market for new geographies and product lines.
Measurement and Improvement
Define success metrics for platform health, including settlement success rates, reconciliation coverage, exception volumes, and time-to-resolution, and hold teams accountable to reliability and accuracy standards.
Influence and Alignment
Influence up and across the organization by regularly presenting strategy, tradeoffs, and priorities to senior leadership and shaping organizational thinking on investments and priorities.
Qualifications include 10+ years of product management experience, deep experience in loans or lending systems, meaningful experience in money movement, payments infrastructure, or financial operations, experience in fintech, financial services, or banking, proficiency with AI-assisted tools, strong technical fluency, and exceptional stakeholder management skills.
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.)