Engineering Manager - Marketing & Privacy Tech (Remote)

Affirm; Ottawa; Remote; CAD 181,000 - 241,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% subsidized medical coverage

Monthly tech stipend

Flexible time off

Equity rewards via ESPP

Job summary

Affirm is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Marketing & Privacy Engineering (MPE) team. You will lead two engineering pillars—Marketing and Consumer Privacy— to build trusted, privacy-aware web experiences and measurement systems that support sustainable growth.

You’ll partner with product managers, guide strategy across web platforms and tagging infrastructure, and mentor engineers to deliver reliable, scalable solutions while balancing speed, quality, and privacy requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience managing software engineers and building high-performing teams.
• Strong engineering foundation and technical judgment.
• Ability to translate product priorities into engineering plans and roadmaps.
• Excellent communication across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Privacy and Legal.
• Familiarity with privacy and data protection requirements is a plus.
• Experience with marketing technology or analytics is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and support engineers across the Marketing and Consumer Privacy pillars, creating an environment where they can do their best work, grow their craft, and take on greater responsibility.
• Establish and continuously improve a shared operating model for MPE that unites Marketing and Privacy around a common mission while creating clarity around each pillar’s priorities, technical ownership, decision-making, and ways of working.
• Partner closely with the Product Manager and technical lead for each pillar to translate product and business priorities into clear engineering plans and deliver against their respective roadmaps while maintaining alignment to MPE’s shared mission.
• Guide engineering strategy and execution across Logged-Out Web, web experimentation, marketing integrations, attribution and measurement, consent, privacy experiences, and consumer data collection.
• Build strong partnerships across Engineering, Product, Marketing, Privacy, Legal, and adjacent engineering teams, establishing clear ownership and reliable ways of working across shared systems such as client-side and server-side tagging and measurement infrastructure.
• Enable privacy-aware engineering by ensuring consent, cookies, tagging, and consumer data collection are considered as part of solution design and by creating alignment where growth, measurement, and consumer privacy intersect.
• Hold the team accountable for delivering reliable, scalable solutions while balancing engineering quality, customer needs, business priorities, speed, and appropriate risk.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Stakeholder alignment

Technical judgment

Communication

Job description

Affirm is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Marketing & Privacy Engineering (MPE) team. You will lead two engineering pillars—Marketing and Consumer Privacy— to build trusted, privacy-aware web experiences and measurement systems that support sustainable growth.

You’ll partner with product managers, guide strategy across web platforms and tagging infrastructure, and mentor engineers to deliver reliable, scalable solutions while balancing speed, quality, and privacy requirements.