Operations Account Program Manager

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Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.

We're looking for an exceptional Operations Account Program Manager to scale operations, support our growing business and adapt the servicing operating model based on the new or differentiated products, manage and report out servicing contractual service levels, agreed governance, communication and reporting across the merchant relationships. The ideal candidate will have strong business acumen and judgement with the ability to lead cross functional programs/projects, build new processes, drive continuous improvements and implement technology to support new businesses, vendors and partners.What you'll need to succeed

Analytical and strategic individuals who are not afraid of rolling up their sleeves, digging deep into data to find meaningful insights, and driving growth-focused initiatives end-to-end. This is a highly cross-functional role that will quarterback initiatives across Product, Sales, Engineering, Finance and Marketing, leading stakeholders towards a set of business objectives.

What you'll do

  • Lead cross-functional discovery and prioritization sessions to bring structure and life to interpersonal objectives, defining and refining strategy, goals, plans and results
  • Build project scope, schedule and budget plans and lead the team projects execution
  • Identify project stakeholders leading expectations through the project lifecycle
  • Partner with cross-functional project leads and managers to coordinate planning and oversee dependencies to effectively operationalize new products and merchant launches
  • Fully understand the impact of new product or differentiated products on the operating model, workflows, and tools and factor the dependencies into the project plan
  • Ensure launch readiness (e.g. go/no-go decisions), coordinate post-launch monitoring and be an authoritative source of information for the project management team, contributing actively to improving project management practice
  • Drive project governance framework such as Working Groups, Steering Committees etc to drive issue resolution and decision making
  • Project Risk, Issues, Actions & Dependencies including the processes for logging and tracking
  • Develop full understanding of the contractual obligations for each strategic merchant/funding partners, the committed servicing SLA(metric & thresholds), penalty/termination(if any) and deliver the set expectations on governance based on the SOW/MSA
  • Work in conjunction with the BI (Business Intelligence) team to lead the reporting cadence with internal teams (Operations and Customer Success Manager)and external teams (Merchants and/or Funding Partners). Should have ability to be fully engaged and proactively identify and raise risks to the potential SLA breach and work immediately on the remediation plan to prevent the breach
  • Work cross-functionally with Customer Care Operations and Ops Analytics, Fraud Operations and Merchant Help teams to own the key operations requirement
  • Have a good understanding of the servicing landscape, the terms and conditions in the contract and work with the operations team to ensure that they are delivered.
  • Account governance and represent the servicing team in key partner forums (Weekly, monthly and steering committee reviews), manage SL report outs, any deviations from the standard should be supported by root cause analysis and preventive and corrective actions

What we look for

  • Outstanding interpersonal skills, with a deep command of the written word
  • Strong project management skills, capable of influencing internal and external partners to stay on schedule
  • Prior project management experience (PMP is nice to have). Process management experience (lean six sigma black belt nice to have)
  • Full understanding of how the contracts are structured, ability to comprehend the servicing commitments, skilled in contract negotiations
  • Demonstrated understanding of underlying client operations, product, workflow & servicing technology
  • Prior experience in consumer lending or financial services a plus
  • Self-starter with strong sense of urgency and accountability
  • Excellent teammate who is highly self-motivated, detailed-oriented, and enjoys learning new things
  • Skilled at focusing on desired results, resolving is important, clarifying next steps and prioritizing work optimally to meet deadlines and achieve desired results
  • Ability to make discretionary decisions based on research, with certain degree of creativity and latitude
Location

We’re excited to announce that Affirm is now a remote-first company! This role can be located anywhere in the U.S. Remote based employees may occasionally travel to an Affirm office for meetings or team building events. Our offices in San Francisco, New York City, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Salt Lake City will remain operational and accessible for anyone to use on a voluntary basis.

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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