Licensing Manager

About the role

The Legal, Compliance, and Public Affairs team is a group of dedicated professionals committed to helping Affirm scale, innovate, and provide outstanding products for consumers, merchants, and key partners. The Licensing team enables Affirm's ability to operate and scale in regulated markets globally by managing the licensing portfolio, regulatory relationships, and licensing strategy across the U.S. and international markets. This role reports to the Director, Global Licensing and Regulatory Programs.

Responsibilities

• Support new product and service launches related to state licensing and reporting, including money transmission, servicing/collections, lending, and international expansion.
• Work cross-functionally with legal, public affairs, compliance, finance, and tax teams to meet regulatory licensing and reporting obligations.
• Maintain the central repository for licensing and reporting obligations for new license types, including workflows and regulatory guidance.
• Collaborate with the Licensing team to interpret, prepare, and submit state licensing annual reports, MSB call reports, and other regulatory obligations.
• Ensure timely regulatory filings, identify licensing issues, and supervise ongoing regulatory obligations in the licensing management tool.
• Lead ongoing preparation of renewal applications and other forms to be filed in various licensing jurisdictions.
• Collaborate on NMLS licensing, reporting, and other regulatory filings.
• Analyze and develop new processes, leveraging AI to increase efficiency within the licensing program.
• Assist the department in researching and integrating licensing requirements into the licensing management tool.
• Coordinate with senior leadership to fulfill ongoing state licensing requirements.
• Partner with the team on licensing projects and initiatives.

Requirements

• 5 years of licensing, compliance, or regulatory experience, ideally related to consumer financial services.
• Outstanding time management, administrative, and organizational skills, including the ability to balance multiple priorities and overlapping projects.
• Proven project management, critical thinking, and analytical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Humility, integrity, and a desire to be part of a small but strong, supportive team.
• Inquisitive, eager to learn, and willing to take ownership of projects.
• Highly focused, able to make independent decisions, and work with limited supervision while excelling in a fast-paced environment.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where priorities shift and ambiguity is part of the landscape.

Pay

Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure 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.

• USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT): $165,000 – $225,000 per year
• USA base pay range (all other U.S. states): $146,000 – $206,000 per year

Schedule

Affirm is a remote-first company. The majority of roles are remote, and employees can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have flexibility to work remotely but may occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their responsibilities.

Benefits

• Health care coverage – Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents.
• Flexible Spending Wallets – generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses.
• Time off – competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge.
• ESPP – An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount.