Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.
As a member of the Information Security team at Affirm, you will be joining a team of fun, passionate and highly skilled individuals who like solving security challenges and enjoy learning new skills. We partner together with a team-first mindset and are keen on redefining security in the fintech space.
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Staff Technical Program Manager to lead impactful programs within our Security team. Your focus will be on optimizing processes to ensure the delivery of secure and exceptional products for our customers and merchants. As our business expands and product offerings grow in complexity, you will play a key role in scaling our security practices to match. This involves collaborating with Product and Engineering teams to establish frameworks and processes for developing high-quality software, while also assessing emerging technologies to identify potential features and products. The ideal candidate will possess a blend of program management skills, technical knowledge, and security expertise.
What you’ll do:
- Drive complex, multi-disciplinary, and highly visible technical projects in service of our team’s mission of securing Affirm’s product, services, and platform.
- Coordinate across many information security teams, engineering teams, and non-engineering stakeholders through the full project lifecycle to plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company.
- Understand information security frameworks and technical implementation at the architecture level, propose security/technical alternatives, ask questions that clarify priorities and push the team to be effective, and develop domain and technical knowledge.
- Work closely with our leads and partners in Security, Product, Engineering, Design, Infrastructure (Cloud Native), Operations, and Analytics to map out strategies and roadmaps.
- Track progress, resolve dependencies, evaluate risks, regularly communicate status to upper management and project stakeholders, and engage the project teams to achieve goals.
- Partner with teams to elevate awareness of reported vulnerabilities and drive timely remediation within defined SLAs.
- When needed, collaborate with the relevant Security team and cross functional stakeholders to coordinate necessary remediation (particularly for ambiguous long term remediation items) including but not limited to risks, incidents, vulnerabilities, other security issues.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience; advanced certifications such as CISSP or CISM is a plus
- 8 years of proven experience managing information security programs, such as; risk assessments, vulnerability management, platform, product security, and IAM
- Knowledgeable about implementing metrics to effectively manage and evaluate the progress and success of programs
- Remain up-to-date with the latest threat landscape and be aware of new vulnerabilities/risks that could potentially impact the product/platform
- Skilled at working with diverse teams to plan strategies, experienced in successfully launching software projects, and excellent at communicating clearly
- Passion and drive to change consumer finance for the better
- Obsesses over getting the details right but knows how to ship on time
- Working and driving strategic programs and building a remote friendly culture.
- Actively mentors and levels up team members
- Track record of successfully driving complex large technology applications and geographically distributed backend systems.
- Track record of strong stakeholder management with Infrastructure, Engineering, Product, Design, Analytics, and other cross-functional teams.
- Prior experience in FinTech, Payments or Commerce is a plus.
Pay Grade - N
Equity Grade - 10
Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.
Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.)
USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $190,000 - $240,000
USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $169,000 - $219,000
#LI-Remote
Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.
We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:
- Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
- Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
- Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
- ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.
[For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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