Director of Product, Machine Learning and Decision Platform
Join a movement in which everyone can win. We started a movement in which everyone can win – shoppers, retailers, society and every person on our team. To play fair, trust people and reward them for doing the right thing. We see and feel the impact of our work as more and more people gain financial freedom and retailers grow across the globe. Founded five years ago in Sydney, Australia, Afterpay has over 13.1 million active customers globally and more than 74,000 of the world’s best retailers around the world including Anthropologie, Revolve, DSW, GOAT, Finish Line, Levi’s, Mac Cosmetics, Ray-Ban and many others. Afterpay is on a mission to power an economy in which everyone wins.
Afterpay is completely free for customers who pay on time – helping people spend responsibly without incurring interest, fees or extended debt. Afterpay empowers customers to access the things they want and need, while still allowing them to maintain financial wellness and control, by splitting payments in four, for both online and in-store purchases. Afterpay is deeply committed to delivering positive outcomes for customers. We are focused on supporting our community of shoppers. We trust in the next generation and share a vision of a more accessible and sustainable world in which people are rewarded for doing the right thing.
The Role
We’re looking for a Director of Product Management to lead our Machine Learning and Decision Platform team, which is responsible for ensuring that Afterpay makes accurate, data-driven decisions across its product lines, including online checkout, mobile app, shop directory, loyalty and our card products. This role will focus on building and scaling both the platforms and the teams that enable machine learning, feature engineering, decisioning, experimentation and scheduling to elevate our risk management, payment recovery, data enrichment, personalization and search capabilities at Afterpay. You’ll create both the vision and platform that allows Afterpay to operate at internet scale and work closely with many cross-functional stakeholders, such as data and feature science, risk, payments, operations, and marketing teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Work with business leaders, engineers, data scientists and other PMs to define and launch our next wave of machine learning and decisioning capabilities
- Lead the ideation and development of innovative solutions aimed at driving value and revenue and drive the promotion and adoption by internal teams
- Align product roadmap development with product and engineering objectives and business needs, working cross-functionally with internal stakeholders including data and feature science, engineering, risk, payments, customer service and marketing teams
- Determine build vs. buy for internal tooling needsHire and manage team of product managers
Minimum Qualifications
-SB or BA Computer Science or related preferred, MBA or advanced degree helpful
- 8+ years of product management experience8+ years of experience in technical architecture or infrastructure preferred
- Excellent leadership skills with experience working across global markets and with geographically dispersed teams
- Previous experience directly managing a team
- Strong collaborator
- Ability to build relationships at all levels across the company, communicate complex topics to non-technical stakeholders and deeply understand what drives the business
How to Apply
If you are brave, if you are committed to doing the right thing, if you always keep it real, and your background matches the description above then please apply today! Afterpay is continuing to hire for all open roles with all interviewing and on-boarding done virtually due to COVID-19. All new team members, in addition to current staff, will temporarily work from home until it is safe to return to our offices.