Senior Technical Program Manager - FinTech, Remote

Affirm; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 146,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for dependents

ESPP stock purchase plan

Tech 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. You will scale our processes as product lines grow and work with cross-functional teams to align goals, identify opportunities, and drive change.

In this remote-first role, you will implement lean methods, manage dependencies, and build data-driven frameworks to measure portfolio health and drive value.

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
• Prior experience in FinTech, Payments or Commerce is a plus.

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

Stakeholder management

Software development knowledge

Communication

Remote collaboration

Education

CS or Engineering degree

Job description

Affirm is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to oversee high-visibility planning programs across engineering, product, and analytics. You will scale our processes as product lines grow and work with cross-functional teams to align goals, identify opportunities, and drive change.

In this remote-first role, you will implement lean methods, manage dependencies, and build data-driven frameworks to measure portfolio health and drive value.