Chief of Staff Director, Product

Find Operators; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 226,000 - 335,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Time off

ESPP

Job summary

Affirm is seeking a Chief of Staff to the SVP of Product to scale the product leadership function. You will anchor on the leveraged people problems, own the external product narrative end-to-end, and drive strategic bets like AI enablement, ensuring high-quality decisions with less latency.

In this remote-first role, you’ll design rhythms, co-own hiring and budgeting, partner with Tech Ops and Finance, and help the Product org move with clarity and speed across the business.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in roles that built product credibility and strategic-narrative chops.
• Track record of running people processes at scale in fast-growing companies.
• Exceptional written communication and narrative drafting ability.
• Ability to spot organizational dysfunction and leadership gaps early.
• Comfort influencing across senior leaders without formal authority.
• Strong grasp of product metrics, finance, and growth analytics.

Responsibilities

• Design and run the product leadership team's rhythms and ceremonies.
• Co-own hiring, calibrations, and talent reviews with HRBP.
• Partner with Tech Ops to define roadmaps and OKRs, track progress.
• Lead headcount planning and budget management with Finance/HR.
• Drive AI retooling and embed AI-enabled processes across the function.
• Curate the external product narrative and prepare leadership communications.
• Run ongoing org health pulse and escalate early signals.

Skills

Product leadership

People processes

Written communication

Organizational diagnosis

Influence without authority

Analytical mindset

Job description

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.

About the Product team

The Product team listens to our customers’ needs and translates those insights into a clear product vision. The team works closely with design, engineering, and analytics to build scalable financial products that empower people to manage their money with confidence. We rely on empathy, curiosity, and business sense to prioritize features and improve experiences. Our role is to lead with clarity, support cross-functional execution, and champion the user in every decision.

About the role

The Chief of Staff to the SVP of Product is the strategic thought partner and proxy to the leader. The role exists to scale the product leadership function: by anchoring on the leveraged people problems most central to the org, by owning the external product narrative end-to-end, and by being on point for strategic bets that need a single accountable owner (ex: AI enablement, special projects).

The end goal is a healthy Product org with pillar leads running independently at high quality, decisions made with less latency, and a clearer story about where Product is going, and why.

What you’ll do

• Design and run the product leadership team’s rhythms (staff meetings, product reviews, all-teams, offsites): agenda architecture, pre-reads, decision capture, follow-through

• Co-own the people rhythms with the HRBP across hiring, calibrations, performance, and talent reviews. Surface emergent structural risks (broken hiring funnels, attrition signals, single points of failure) with proactive solutions

• Partners with Technology Operations function to define and improve processes for roadmap planning, driving prioritization decisions, setting annual OKRs and tracking progress to goals throughout the year

• Own headcount planning and budget management alongside the Finance and HR Business Partners: annual planning, quarterly reforecasts, hire-prioritization tradeoffs

• Drive AI retooling and enablement, including running internal AI masterclasses for leadership and natively embedding AI-enabled processes across the function

• Curate the external product narrative (all-hands, written updates, major external talks): operate as a speechwriter, partnering with PR, comms, and brand

• Prepare executive briefings and leadership communications, and reduce decision latency across the Product leadership team

• Run a recurring org health pulse (engagement scores, regrettable attrition, leveling drift, manager effectiveness), escalating early signals before they become structural problems

What you’ll bring

• 10+ years in roles that built product credibility and strategic-narrative chops: strategy with deep product partnership, or a prior CoS role to a senior product or engineering executive at a high-growth tech company

• A track record of running people processes at scale (hiring, calibrations, leveling, talent reviews) in a fast-growing organization

• Exceptional written communication: you can ghostwrite, synthesize narrative from raw inputs, and draft a board page that holds up under scrutiny

• Pattern-matching for organizational dysfunction: the muscle to spot a broken hiring funnel, a single point of failure, or a leadership gap before anyone names it

• Comfort operating with influence and without authority across senior leaders in Product, Engineering, Design, Revenue, Finance, and HR

• Strong analytical foundation and business acumen: fluent enough in product metrics, financials, and growth analytics to reason about tradeoffs without delegating every quantitative question

Why this role matters

Affirm’s next phase of growth depends on Product moving from a function powered by heroics to a function powered by a world-class operating system. The Chief of Staff is the linchpin of the strategic side of that change: the partner who helps make the strategy clear, the org stronger, and the leader’s leverage real.

Base Pay Grade - S

Equity Grade - USA11

Employees new to affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.

Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.)

USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $255,000 - $335,000

USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $226,000 - $306,000

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

#LI-Remote

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment.affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.

We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:

• Health care coverage - affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of affirm at a discount

We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.

[For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.