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Leads policy and communications campaigns shaping public understanding of consumer credit. Develops campaign strategy, media narratives, research-backed proof points, reporter and influencer relationships, executive messaging, stakeholder events, and measurement frameworks. Partners with policy, public affairs, legal, brand, and marketing teams to influence media coverage, policymakers, regulators, advocates, and broader public opinion.

Lead technical strategy and execution for Affirm’s account management team, building secure, scalable fullstack systems and customer account security experiences. Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering teams; establish quality, monitoring, testing, and operational standards; support availability and on-call practices; communicate technical decisions; and mentor engineers.

Designs and presents scalable technical solutions for enterprise merchants using Affirm’s payment platform. Leads technical discovery, solution architecture, custom integrations, demos, and pre-sales support while partnering with Sales, Engineering, Product, and partner teams. Builds customer trust, identifies technical risks, influences product development, creates enablement materials, and supports successful implementations. The role requires payments or fintech experience, strong API and enterprise architecture expertise, technical communication skills, and travel up to 30%.

Leads Affirm’s global Product, Regulatory, Innovation, Licensing, Litigation, and Enforcement legal functions. Advises executives, board members, regulators, and cross-functional leaders on consumer financial products, payments, product development, regulatory matters, litigation, enforcement, and risk mitigation. Develops strategic plans, oversees regulatory inquiries and examinations, manages legal teams and budgets, and partners with senior leadership to support business growth and organizational effectiveness.

Designs, delivers, and improves leadership development programs for aspiring, first-time, and newly hired managers. Creates scalable learning journeys, workshops, peer communities, coaching and assessment experiences, and practical leadership resources. Partners with People teams to connect development with hiring, onboarding, promotions, and talent growth. Uses audience insights, data, feedback, and emerging technologies to measure impact and continuously improve programs while managing vendors, communications, resources, and budgets.

Build and maintain scalable backend platforms for capital orchestration, transaction reconciliation, collateral movement, data pipelines, and business workflows. Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, analysts, and business stakeholders to design systems, write tested code, improve reliability, and deliver projects incrementally. Support production operations through monitoring, metrics, debugging, code reviews, and on-call responsibilities.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for technical strategy, scalable full-stack systems, team operations, reliability, monitoring, code quality, and talent development. The role involves building customer-facing card experiences and backend services using Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, Kubernetes, and React-based frameworks. The engineer will own features end to end, collaborate cross-functionally, manage technical risks and trade-offs, support on-call health, and apply AI safely to improve development and customer experiences.

Leads and develops a team of Sales Engineers while participating in enterprise technical sales, API integration discussions, solution presentations, and merchant onboarding. Builds, tests, and troubleshoots integrations; coaches teams on AI development tools; collaborates with Engineering, Product, and Revenue; translates merchant challenges into product improvements; and maintains relationships with technical and business stakeholders.

Architect and operate Affirm’s large-scale Amazon EKS compute platform, including cluster lifecycle, node management, autoscaling, shared components, infrastructure automation, workload safety policies, observability, cost and capacity optimization, and self-service workflows. The role drives technical strategy, mentors engineers, partners cross-functionally, and participates in on-call incident response.

Lead annual and mid-year compensation cycles, manage project planning and communications, conduct market and workforce analyses, support incentive compensation programs, maintain job architecture in Workday, and advise stakeholders on compensation structures and programs. The role partners closely with People, Technology, Business, and Compensation teams while developing data-driven recommendations and maintaining competitive rewards frameworks.