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Build, operate, and scale backend systems for card issuing and transaction processing. Break down projects, collaborate with product and cross-functional teams, write tested extensible code, support monitoring and on-call operations, and participate in team growth activities including interviews.

The Strategic Finance Manager will partner with various teams to drive performance, manage forecasting, reporting, and support executive decision-making by providing insightful analysis and strategic recommendations.

Lead design and implementation of Affirm's Lakehouse Platform using Iceberg, Spark, Snowflake, and cloud storage. Drive platform roadmap, governance, access controls, performance and cost optimization, analytics engineering best practices, observability, and on-call readiness. Partner cross-functionally, mentor engineers, and build scalable, secure, self-service data infrastructure and semantic/agentic data tools.

Lead AI-driven product design initiatives to create hybrid search/discovery and agentic interfaces. Define design language for proactive, conversational experiences; prototype multi-modal flows; partner cross-functionally to execute roadmaps; prioritize trust, scalability, experimentation, and polished interaction and visual design for consumer financial products.

Manage Affirm's licensing portfolio and regulatory filings across U.S. and international markets. Support product launches, prepare renewals and reports (NMLS, MSB), maintain licensing repository, collaborate cross-functionally, improve processes using AI, and ensure timely regulatory compliance.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Affirm Bank's cloud, data, vendor integrations, and operational tooling. Design, build, and operate high-stakes systems end-to-end, own incident response, vendor selection, and the Bank↔Affirm Inc integration boundary. Ensure examiner-ready documentation, compliance, reliability, and observability while mentoring engineers and pushing AI-assisted engineering practices to increase velocity and product safety.

Lead development of scalable, well-tested data products for Revenue: design dbt models, metrics, dashboards, governance, and AI-enable analytics. Drive technical direction, automation, quality, and mentor cross-functional partners to deliver trusted reporting and self-service analytics.

Design, train, and productionize underwriting ML models for real-time transaction decisions. Build feature pipelines and training datasets, run experiments, integrate models into batch/real-time systems, and monitor data and model health while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The Senior Director will lead Affirm's retail sales organization, ensuring strategic partnerships, managing teams, and driving revenue through key merchant relationships.

Lead design and delivery of a reliability platform for production systems. Own quarterly goals, guide engineers through ambiguity, collaborate with PM/design/analytics, monitor and operate services (on-call), set quality and code standards, and mentor teammates. Integrate AI/LLM tooling to improve automation, debugging, and service health.