Analytics Lead, Full Stack — Growth & Strategy

Affirm; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 164,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for dependents

Tech setup stipends

Flexible time off

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Job summary

affirm is a remote-first company reimagining lending analytics. We are seeking an Analytics Lead, Full Stack to own the analytics portfolio for a major product area, partnering with Strategic Partnerships, Product, Finance, Engineering and Pricing to set growth strategies and measure impact.

You will design scalable data models, dashboards, and AI-powered workflows, mentor analysts, and translate complex analyses into clear business cases for leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field; advanced degree a plus.
• Strong SQL and Python skills with analytics experience.
• Experience with A/B testing and experimental design.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritize the analytics portfolio for a significant product or business area, operating with a business owner mindset to define success, identify investment opportunities, recommend actions, and measure impact across customer experience, growth, risk, and profitability.
• Lead complex analyses that balance growth, credit performance, customer experience, and unit economics.
• Translate analytical findings into clear and compelling narratives and business cases that help leadership make informed decisions.
• Tackle ambiguous problems by identifying the core hypotheses and designing actionable experiments to validate product-market fit and economic viability.
• Lead through influence across Product, Engineering, Finance, and Revenue, building alignment around important decisions without formal authority.
• Build scalable data models, metrics, dashboards, and AI-assisted analytical workflows that improve access to trusted insights while maintaining rigorous validation, reproducibility, and data governance.
• Raise the impact of the analytics organization by mentoring analysts and developing reusable analytical practices and tools.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Python

A/B testing

AI tools (Cursor)

Cross-functional leadership

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field

Advanced degree (preferred)

Tools

Cursor AI

Claude AI

SQL tooling (dbt, etc)

Job description

affirm is a remote-first company reimagining lending analytics. We are seeking an Analytics Lead, Full Stack to own the analytics portfolio for a major product area, partnering with Strategic Partnerships, Product, Finance, Engineering and Pricing to set growth strategies and measure impact.

You will design scalable data models, dashboards, and AI-powered workflows, mentor analysts, and translate complex analyses into clear business cases for leadership.