Senior Manager, Talent Management

About The People Team

The People team helps Affirmers cultivate a high-performing, inclusive organization. They focus on three core areas: attracting talent aligned to our mission, enabling growth through people and team development, and retaining employees through thoughtful experiences and rewards. They develop Affirm’s people programs and systems to create a workplace where all employees can thrive and contribute meaningfully. By investing in our people, they create a long-term advantage for the business.

About The Team

Affirm’s Talent Management team designs and evolves the practices, frameworks, and talent routines that create clarity around performance, growth, potential, and opportunity across the organization. Their work spans performance management, talent planning, career development, and other core talent practices that help connect talent decisions with evolving business needs. They partner closely with leaders and cross-functional teams to evolve thoughtful, scalable approaches that support consistent talent decisions, strengthen organizational capability, and ensure their talent practices continue to grow alongside the business over time.

What you’ll do

• Define and evolve Affirm’s career philosophy, creating a clear and cohesive approach to how employees grow, build skills, and navigate career opportunities across the company.
• Architect enterprise-wide career frameworks and practices, including internal mobility, career pathing, and tools that enable more transparent and consistent talent decisions.
• Establish forward-looking talent strategies that connect career growth to evolving business capabilities, workforce planning, and long-term organizational needs.
• Partner with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to shape alignment on complex talent topics, influencing decisions through insight, strong judgment, and thoughtful recommendations.
• Develop and integrate mechanisms (e.g., success profiles and related frameworks) that clarify expectations for growth and support more consistent approaches to development and talent decisions.
• Drive intentional change management strategies that help leaders and employees adopt new ways of thinking about careers, growth, and mobility at Affirm.

What we look for

• You are a strategic and influential talent practitioner who brings clarity to complex organizational challenges and helps shape thoughtful, evolving approaches to careers and growth at Affirm.
• Proven experience designing and evolving enterprise talent strategies related to careers, internal mobility, career frameworks, workforce capability planning, or organizational growth.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and build alignment with senior and executive leaders on complex, evolving talent topics.
• Strong strategic and conceptual thinking skills, with the ability to bring clarity and structure to ambiguous challenges and translate ideas into scalable approaches.
• Experience leading organization-wide change efforts, including introducing thoughtful, iterative approaches that balance long-term vision with organizational readiness and adoption.
• Organizational judgment and problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate competing priorities and make thoughtful, balanced recommendations.
• Ability to operate effectively across cross-functional partners and stakeholders, building trust and momentum in complex environments.
• A proactive, adaptable, and collaborative approach, with a commitment to building transparent and inclusive talent practices that support meaningful employee growth.

Pay & Benefits

Base Pay Grade - M
Equity Grade - 9
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.
USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $185,000 - $245,000
USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $164,000 - $224,000
Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will 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 job responsibilities.

Benefits
We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:
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