Software Engineering Manager (Marketing & Privacy Engineering)

Affirm, Inc.; Ottawa; Remote; CAD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first compensation structure

Spending Wallets for tech, food, and生活

Health benefits

Parental Leave: 18 weeks + transition

Away Days: 20 company-wide days off

Learning & Development

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Marketing & Privacy Engineering (MPE) team.

You will guide two pillars—Marketing and Consumer Privacy Engineering—toward a shared mission of privacy-aware consumer web experiences and measurement systems that enable sustainable growth. You will partner with Product Managers and pillar leads to translate priorities into clear plans, align roadmaps, and deliver across logging, experiments, and consent/privacy tooling.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of software engineers at scale.
• Experience with privacy engineering and measurement systems.
• Strong collaboration across product, design, and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead two pillars: Marketing and Consumer Privacy Engineering.
• Translate product priorities into engineering plans and roadmaps.
• Set an operating model uniting pillars with clear ownership.
• Partner with Product Manager and tech lead to align on priorities.
• Drive strategy across logging, web experiments, analytics, and privacy experiences.
• Foster collaboration across Engineering, Product, Marketing, Privacy, and Legal.
• Ensure privacy, consent, cookies, and data collection are considered in design.
• Deliver reliable, scalable solutions balancing quality, speed, and risk.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Privacy engineering

Web measurement systems

Marketing technology

Team development

Tools

Client-side tagging

Server-side tagging

Measurement infrastructure

Consent management

Cookies

Data collection

Job description

• As Engineering Manager for the Marketing & Privacy Engineering (MPE) team, you’ll lead two engineering pillars - Marketing and Consumer Privacy Engineering - under a shared mission to build trusted, privacy-aware consumer web experiences and measurement systems that enable sustainable growth
• 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

Benefits

• Compensation: We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote‑first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
• Spending Wallets: Access tech, food, lifestyle, and family planning wallets for your expenses
• Supportive Communities: Get involved with our employee resource groups and community groups
• Remote‑first Workforce: If your role is remote, you can set up shop anywhere in your home country
• Generous Time Off: Take the time you need when life happens
• Health Benefits: Get a plan that fits your needs
• Mental Healthcare: Take care of your mind with great mental health programs
• Parental Leave: Birth and non‑birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return‑to‑work transition program, at full base pay
• Away Days: We offer 20 company‑wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge
• Learning & Development: Engage in exciting learning programs to level up your growth

Sound judgment navigating ambiguity, competing priorities, dependencies, and risk, with a focus on engineering quality and operational excellence while balancing reliability, scalability, speed, and business needsExperience with marketing technology, web experimentation, analytics, attribution, instrumentation, or measurement systems is a plusFamiliarity with global privacy and data protection requirements such as GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and the Australian Privacy Act (APPs), and/or experience with privacy‑aware systems such as consent management, cookies, tagging, data collection, or consumer privacy experiences, is a plusExperience managing and developing software engineers, with a track record of building collaborative, high‑performing teams through coaching, candid feedback, and accountabilityAbility to build alignment across Product, Engineering, and other cross‑functional stakeholders, with strong communication skills and the ability to make complex technical topics clear to technical and non-technical audiencesStrong software engineering foundation and technical judgment, ideally with experience leading teams responsible for consumer‑facing or high‑traffic web platforms and complex systems or integrationsExperience translating product and business priorities into engineering plans and leading execution across distinct technical domains, product partners, and roadmaps toward a shared mission