Staff Product Manager, App Platform & Experience
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About the Role
Affirm is seeking a Staff Product Manager to own the foundational systems and experience architecture for its consumer mobile apps and web experiences. You will define the long-term vision, lead cross-functional initiatives, and partner with engineering teams to build scalable, intuitive consumer platforms.
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Responsibilities
- Define and drive the long term vision for Affirm’s core consumer experience across app, web, and future consumer surfaces
- Own foundational experience domains including navigation, information architecture, design systems, shared UX frameworks, and platform capabilities
- Lead major experience initiatives, including large scale redesigns and structural improvements to the consumer journey
- Partner closely with Mobile and Web Engineering teams to shape the architecture, capabilities, and developer experience of Affirm’s consumer platforms
- Establish principles, standards, and frameworks that help product teams deliver consistent and intuitive experiences
- Create scalable approaches for common consumer experience patterns across onboarding, discovery, personalization, engagement, servicing, and account management
- Serve as a strong advocate for consumers, ensuring user needs remain at the center of product and platform decisions
- Drive alignment across multiple organizations and influence roadmaps without direct authority
- Establish mechanisms that raise the quality bar across the Consumer organization, including experience reviews, standards, and governance processes
- Use research, experimentation, analytics, and product judgment to identify opportunities to improve the overall consumer experience
Requirements
- 8+ years of product management experience building consumer technology products at scale
- Demonstrated success leading highly cross functional initiatives spanning multiple teams and product areas
- Strong consumer product instincts and exceptional product taste
- Experience owning or influencing core mobile and web experiences, navigation systems, information architecture, platform experiences, or design systems
- Experience partnering deeply with Design and Engineering organizations to deliver polished consumer experiences
- Experience working within React Native environments
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and organizational influence skills
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About the Role
- 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 Staff Product Manager on our Consumer team, you’ll help define how millions of consumers experience Affirm across our mobile apps, web experiences, and future consumer surfaces.
- You will own the foundational systems, frameworks, and experiences that make Affirm intuitive, cohesive, and scalable.
What You’ll Do
- Define and drive the long term vision for Affirm’s core consumer experience across app, web, and future consumer surfaces.
- Own foundational experience domains including navigation, information architecture, design systems, shared UX frameworks, and platform capabilities.
- Lead major experience initiatives, including large scale redesigns and structural improvements to the consumer journey.
- Partner closely with Mobile and Web Engineering teams to shape the architecture, capabilities, and developer experience of Affirm’s consumer platforms, including our React Native application stack.
- Help define the shared capabilities, navigation patterns, component frameworks, and platform investments that enable product teams to build high quality experiences consistently across React Native and web surfaces.
- Establish principles, standards, and frameworks that help product teams deliver consistent and intuitive experiences.
- Create scalable approaches for common consumer experience patterns across onboarding, discovery, personalization, engagement, servicing, and account management.
- Serve as a strong advocate for consumers, ensuring that user needs remain at the center of product and platform decisions.
- Drive alignment across multiple organizations and influence roadmaps without direct authority.
- Establish mechanisms that raise the quality bar across the Consumer organization, including experience reviews, standards, and governance processes.
- Use research, experimentation, analytics, and product judgment to identify opportunities to improve the overall consumer experience.
What We Look For
- 8+ years of product management experience building consumer technology products at scale.
- Demonstrated success leading highly cross functional initiatives that span multiple teams and product areas.
- Strong consumer product instincts and exceptional product taste.
- Experience owning or influencing core mobile and web experiences, navigation systems, information architecture, platform experiences, or design systems.
- Experience partnering deeply with Design and Engineering organizations to deliver polished consumer experiences.
- Experience partnering closely with engineering teams building large scale consumer applications, including experience working within React Native environments.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills, with the ability to balance customer needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
- Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and organizational influence skills.
- Proven ability to build alignment and drive outcomes in complex environments without direct authority.
Benefits
- 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.
Pay & Equity
- Pay Grade P
- Equity Grade 7
- CAN base pay range per year: CAD 181,000 CAD 241,000
- Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits.
Workplace
- 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.
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