Global Licensing & Compliance Manager (Remote)

Affirm, Inc.; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 146,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage at no cost

Spending stipends for tech setup

Flexible time off

ESPP – employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Affim is seeking a Senior Licensing and Regulatory Programs specialist to join our remote-first Licensing team. You will drive licensing strategy, coordinate cross-functional filings, and ensure timely regulatory obligations across U.S. jurisdictions.

You will leverage AI to improve processes, collaborate with senior leadership, and help scale our products in consumer financial services while maintaining strong compliance and governance standards.

Qualifications

• 5 years of licensing/compliance/regulatory experience ideally related to consumer financial services.
• Outstanding time management, administrative, and organizational skills, including the ability to balance multiple priorities and overlapping projects
• Proven project management, critical thinking, and analytical skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Humility, integrity, and a desire to be part of a small but strong, supportive team
• Inquisitive, eager to learn, and a willingness to take ownership of projects
• Highly focused, able to make independent decisions and work with limited supervision while excelling in a fast-paced environment
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where priorities shift and ambiguity is part of the landscape

Responsibilities

• Support new product & service launches related to state licensing and reporting including money transmission, servicing/collections, lending, international expansion, etc.
• Work cross-functionally with legal, public affairs, compliance, finance, tax to meet regulatory licensing and reporting obligations
• Maintain the central repository for licensing and reporting obligations for new license types including workflows, regulatory guidance, etc.
• Collaborate with Licensing team to interpret, prepare, and submit state licensing annual reports, MSB call reports, and other regulatory obligations
• Ensure timely regulatory filings, call out any licensing issues, supervise ongoing regulatory obligations in licensing management tool
• Lead ongoing preparation of renewal applications and other forms to be filed in various licensing jurisdictions
• Collaborate on NMLS licensing, reporting, and other regulatory filings
• Analyze and develop new processes, leveraging AI, to increase efficiency within the licensing program
• Assist Department in the research and build of licensing requirements into the licensing management tool
• Coordinate with senior leadership to fulfill ongoing state licensing requirements
• Partner with team on any licensing projects and initiatives

Skills

licensing/compliance experience

time management

project management

communication skills

integrity

ownership

independent decision making

Job description

Affim is seeking a Senior Licensing and Regulatory Programs specialist to join our remote-first Licensing team. You will drive licensing strategy, coordinate cross-functional filings, and ensure timely regulatory obligations across U.S. jurisdictions.

You will leverage AI to improve processes, collaborate with senior leadership, and help scale our products in consumer financial services while maintaining strong compliance and governance standards.