Staff Tech Program Manager, AI-First Engineering Onboarding

Affirm, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 230,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% health coverage

Monthly tech stipend

Flexible time off

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager, Engineering Onboarding to build an AI-first onboarding experience that helps new engineers become confident, effective builders.

You will create the technical learning, practical support, and community that enable engineers to understand Affirm’s systems, ship, and grow their impact. You will collaborate with Engineering leaders across Developer Productivity, SRE, Security, Architecture, and Product to translate AI-first practices into

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of experience as a technical leader in a software engineering organization.
• Understand modern software development practices including AI-assisted development, code review, testing, CI, deployment, observability, and incident response.
• Improved engineering workflows or learning programs through thoughtful program design and cross-functional execution.
• Able to turn ambiguous problems into clear plans, playbooks, and operating rhythms.
• Influence and align partners across Engineering, Learning, Recruiting, People Ops, IT, Facilities, and other teams without direct authority.
• Communicate clearly and create inclusive learning environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and delivery of Engineering onboarding for North America and EMEA.
• Lead hands-on learning experiences at the San Francisco office, plus virtual and regional programming.
• Partner with Engineering leaders to build and maintain onboarding content across multiple teams.
• Translate AI-first engineering practices into practical learning experiences including agent-assisted development, code review, testing, CI, deployment, observability, and production support.
• Create clear, role-relevant onboarding plans to help new engineers establish context and contribute quickly.
• Coordinate with Recruiting, Learning, People Ops, IT, Facilities, Finance, and regional partners to ensure access, equipment and support.
• Gather feedback from new hires and facilitators to continuously improve content and the onboarding experience.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Program design

Effective communication

Ambiguity resolution

AI-assisted development

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager, Engineering Onboarding to build an AI-first onboarding experience that helps new engineers become confident, effective builders.

You will create the technical learning, practical support, and community that enable engineers to understand Affirm’s systems, ship, and grow their impact. You will collaborate with Engineering leaders across Developer Productivity, SRE, Security, Architecture, and Product to translate AI-first practices into