Remote Senior Technical Program Manager - FinTech

Affirm; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 146,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% covered medical

Stock purchase plan

Tech setup stipends

Flexible time off

Job summary

Affirm is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to oversee high-visibility planning programs across engineering, product, and analytics, aligning efforts with business goals and driving change. You will partner with cross-functional teams to implement lean processes, build data-driven dashboards, manage dependencies, and scale our planning framework as product lines grow.

This remote-first role offers flexible work arrangements, a competitive total compensation package including equity, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of proven experience managing programs, processes, and change management in a technology-focused environment.
• Strong technical background with a deep understanding of software development processes.
• Organized and strategic approach to collaborating across multi-disciplinary teams.
• Obsesses over getting the details right but knows how to make tradeoff decisions.
• Strong stakeholder management with Product, Engineering, Design, Analytics, and other cross-functional teams.
• Track record of successfully implementing frameworks at scale and building relationships in a remote friendly culture.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and consulting skills.
• Passion and drive to change consumer finance for the better.

Responsibilities

• Drive complex, multi-disciplinary, and highly visible transformation & operational programs in service of our team’s mission to deliver honest financial products that improve lives
• Coordinate and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders across the company to drive alignment on strategy, priorities, and key decisions.
• Implement lean processes and drive towards better ways of working to realize value from planning, ask questions that clarify priorities and push the team to be effective, and build a culture of continuous iteration and improvement
• Establish and run data-driven operational frameworks to view portfolio performance against OKRs, accelerate value realization by enabling right investment decisions, influence and train teams on more effective ways of working, and create excitement around change to increase adoption
• Develop communication strategies to ensure critical information flows seamlessly across the organization
• Partner with cross-functional teams to plan change requirements, identify risks, manage dependencies, and establish tools and forums to drive clarity and efficiency
• Identify and distill needs, experiment with new ideas to address systemic inefficiencies and bring transparency, visibility, alignment, and promote accountability across the organization

Skills

Program management

Technical background

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent

Job description

Affirm is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to oversee high-visibility planning programs across engineering, product, and analytics, aligning efforts with business goals and driving change. You will partner with cross-functional teams to implement lean processes, build data-driven dashboards, manage dependencies, and scale our planning framework as product lines grow.

This remote-first role offers flexible work arrangements, a competitive total compensation package including equity, and