Chief of Staff, Product Leadership & Strategy

Affirm; Chicago (IL); Presencial; USD 226.000 - 306.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health insurance

Flexible Spending Wallets

Time off

Descripción de la vacante

Affirm, a remote-first fintech company, seeks a Chief of Staff to the SVP of Product to scale the product leadership function. You will anchor on core people problems, own external product narrative, and lead strategic bets such as AI enablement across the organization.

You will design leadership rhythms, partner on hiring and talent reviews, and drive roadmap prioritization, budgets, and annual OKRs. The role requires strong narrative skills and cross-functional influence.

Formación

• 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.
• Proven track record of running people processes at scale: hiring, calibrations, leveling, talent reviews in a fast-growing organization.
• Exceptional written communication and the ability to ghostwrite and draft board pages.

Responsabilidades

• 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 risks with proactive solutions
• Partner with Technology Operations to define and improve roadmap planning, prioritization, and annual OKRs
• Own headcount planning and budget management with Finance and HRBP: annual planning, quarterly reforecasts
• Drive AI retooling and enablement, including internal AI masterclasses for leadership
• Curate external product narrative; operate as a speechwriter with PR, comms, and brand
• Prepare executive briefings and leadership communications; reduce decision latency across Product leadership
• Run org health pulse and escalate signals before they become problems

Conocimientos

Cross-functional leadership

Narrative strategy

CoS experience

Written communication

People processes at scale

Org health patterns

Influence without authority

Analytical mindset

Descripción del empleo

Affirm, a remote-first fintech company, seeks a Chief of Staff to the SVP of Product to scale the product leadership function. You will anchor on core people problems, own external product narrative, and lead strategic bets such as AI enablement across the organization.

You will design leadership rhythms, partner on hiring and talent reviews, and drive roadmap prioritization, budgets, and annual OKRs. The role requires strong narrative skills and cross-functional influence.