Senior Policy & Campaigns Leader

Affirm, Inc.; Portland (OR); Hybrid; USD 164,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage at no cost for you and

Monthly stipends for tech setup

Time off to recharge

ESPP stock purchase plan

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a senior Brand & Communications professional to shape public understanding and steer coverage across policy, media, and culture.

You’ll architect narratives that travel beyond headlines and collaborate with policy, comms, and product teams to elevate credible, consumer-friendly credit storytelling. This remote-first role requires building trusted relationships with reporters, editors, advocates, and experts, and translating complex financial topics into clear language for

Qualifications

• Campaign mindset and arc-based thinking for shaping public conversation.
• Elite media relationships and craft across policy, business, and tech media.
• Experience running complex press strategies end-to-end, including difficult situations.
• A connector who builds cross-world relationships and creates useful linkages.
• Proactive instinct to craft stories and push ideas beyond initial objections.
• Ability to understand underwriting, disclosure, and credit topics and explain in plain language.
• Strong, persuasive writing that carries and convinces skeptical audiences.
• Sound judgment in high-stakes, high-visibility moments; quick, trustworthy action.
• Collaborative partner across Comms, Brand, Public Affairs, Legal, and Marketing.
• Belief that transparency is an advantage for the brand and trust.

Responsibilities

• Develop the strategy and run the campaign. Decide what we’re trying to change, with whom, and in what order.
• Shape what becomes news by weaving affirm into conversations instead of reacting to them.
• Build the proof by shaping consumer research and third-party data into persuasive arguments.
• Build the media bench by earning trust of reporters, editors, and producers.
• Partner with public affairs and government relations to engage consumer advocates and academics.
• Prepare executives and outside spokespeople for moments that matter, including op-eds and panels.
• Track impact: how reporters frame the category, how advocates speak, and the overall sentiment.

Skills

Campaign mindset

Media relationships

Policy communications experience

A connector

Proactive instinct

Appetite for a complicated subject

Sharp, persuasive writing

Sound judgment

Collaborative partnership

Belief that transparency is an advant*

Job description

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a senior Brand & Communications professional to shape public understanding and steer coverage across policy, media, and culture.

You’ll architect narratives that travel beyond headlines and collaborate with policy, comms, and product teams to elevate credible, consumer-friendly credit storytelling. This remote-first role requires building trusted relationships with reporters, editors, advocates, and experts, and translating complex financial topics into clear language for