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Lead Affirm’s zero-to-one product initiatives in partnership with the CEO and executive team. Own product vision, strategy, roadmap, discovery, prototyping, experimentation, launch, and iteration for new products and platforms. Analyze customer behavior, define success metrics, write product content, and coordinate engineering, design, data, risk, operations, revenue, legal, and compliance teams. This hands-on role has no direct people-management responsibilities and requires strong judgment in ambiguous environments.

Counsel II will negotiate and execute diverse vendor agreements, including technology, cloud, SaaS, marketing technology, data platform, contractor, lease, and payment processing contracts. The role partners with Procurement, Finance, Engineering, Product, Information Security, Privacy, and other teams; develops legal playbooks, templates, and training; improves contracting processes; manages high deal volume; and provides practical guidance on privacy, data protection, and commercial legal matters.

Manage commercial and vendor agreements, amendments, NDAs, legal intake, contract approvals, and cross-functional reviews. Maintain templates, playbooks, training materials, and knowledge resources while communicating contract risks and requirements to business partners. Identify process improvements, meet internal service-level agreements, manage competing priorities, and partner with Legal Operations, Finance, Procurement, and other teams. The role independently handles routine and moderately complex matters and supports attorneys with strategic negotiations.

Build and enforce workload safety standards across Affirm’s Amazon EKS fleet. Responsibilities include Kubernetes resource management, workload isolation, disruption handling, cluster capacity analysis, policy automation, production debugging, incident response, fleet-wide rollouts, technical leadership, mentoring, and measuring infrastructure impacts on availability, latency, risk, and cost.

Develop and execute merchant acquisition and activation programs through platform and ISV channels. Own channel strategy, integrated campaigns, partner collaboration, messaging, content, execution, measurement, and optimization. Work cross-functionally with Partnerships, Sales, Product Marketing, Brand, Legal, and Revenue Intelligence to drive acquisition, activation, pipeline, GMV, and revenue. Analyze performance, manage multiple programs, and turn successful campaigns into reusable playbooks.

Leads performance, governance, strategy, and transformation across a global BPO vendor network. Owns customer experience, service levels, compliance, quality, analytics, escalations, and vendor accountability. Partners cross-functionally across Operations, Compliance, Product, Risk, Training, QA, and Workforce Management to deliver rollouts, migrations, regulatory implementations, and continuous improvement. Uses data and scenario modeling to diagnose gaps, prioritize interventions, and drive measurable outcomes.

Leads and develops a team of senior enterprise Account Executives selling complex solutions to major retail merchants. Owns pipeline, forecasting, deal progression, merchant acquisition, expansion, and revenue outcomes. Coaches strategic deal execution, builds executive merchant relationships, shapes enterprise retail go-to-market strategy, and partners cross-functionally across Product, Client Success, Marketing, Finance, Legal, and RevOps. Uses data, AI, automation, and modern sales tools to improve effectiveness. Travel supports merchant meetings, events, and team gatherings.

Manage the Loans Lifecycle software engineering team at Affirm. Set technical strategy, lead delivery of business-critical projects, ensure system reliability and operational readiness, establish quality standards, collaborate with product and analytics teams, and coach engineers. The role focuses on highly available distributed financial systems and audit-grade ledger technology using backend technologies including Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.

Leads Affirm’s Marketing Services organization and long-term partner marketing strategy. Oversees marketplace, partner, and platform marketing teams; manages co-marketing investments, events, monetization programs, measurement frameworks, governance, and partner-funded initiatives. Collaborates with Product, Sales, Partnerships, Finance, Analytics, Legal, and other teams to drive merchant growth, improve return on investment, and strengthen strategic relationships. Builds scalable operating models and develops senior marketing leaders.

Develop and ship phased software projects for Affirm’s mobile card acquisition team. Collaborate with product, design, and analytics stakeholders; build web and mobile applications and scalable APIs; monitor operational metrics; support availability and on-call efforts; participate in code reviews, interviews, and team development.