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Affirm

Staff Technical Program Manager

engineeringfull-timeRemote US
SALARY
$169k – $240k/yr
WORK TYPE
remote
JOB TYPE
full-time
INDUSTRY
fintech
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About the role

What you'll do

  • Drive complex, multi-disciplinary, and highly visible technical programs in service of our team's mission of expanding our consumer product suite and platform capabilities.
  • Coordinate across engineering teams and non-engineering stakeholders through the full program lifecycle to plan requirements, identify risks, manage program schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company.
  • Understand technical implementation at the architecture level and propose technical alternatives, ask questions that clarify priorities and push the team to be effective, and develop domain and technical knowledge.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to plan requirements, identify risks, manage program schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company.
  • Track progress, resolve dependencies, evaluate risks, and communicate status to upper management and program stakeholders, and engage the program teams to achieve goals.

What we look for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of proven experience managing technical programs.
  • Passion and drive to change consumer finance for the better.
  • Organized and strategic approach to collaborating across multi-disciplinary teams.
  • Obsesses over getting the details right but knows how to ship on time.
  • Working and driving strategic programs and building a remote friendly culture.
  • Actively mentors and levels up team members.
  • Track record of successfully driving complex large technology applications and geographically distributed backend systems.
  • Track record of strong stakeholder management with Engineering, Product, Design, Analytics, and other cross-functional teams.
  • Prior experience in FinTech, Payments or Commerce is a plus.
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Staff Technical Program Manager at Affirm — Remote