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Affirm hires Marketing Directors to lead growth across its buy-now-pay-later platform, working at the intersection of fintech and consumer finance. The company has a consistent track record of sponsoring work visas for marketing leadership roles, making it a realistic target if you need sponsorship.
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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. We are looking for a strategic and inspiring Senior Director of Product Marketing to lead our go-to-market strategy and narrative development across Affirm’s commerce, payments, and merchant ecosystem. This role is pivotal in shaping how Affirm shows up in the market — influencing enterprise customer adoption, informing company strategy through market and customer insights, and crafting stories that resonate across key audiences including merchants, partners, consumers, and investors. You’ll play a critical role in connecting product strategy to business impact, ensuring our messaging is consistent, differentiated, and grounded in customer truth. You will collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Sales, Marketing, Communications, and Data Science, and work closely with senior leadership to translate complex product capabilities into powerful narratives that drive understanding, adoption, and growth. This is a high-impact, highly visible role — ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of storytelling, systems thinking, and strategy, and who can build scalable programs that connect market insights to product decisions.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead Product Marketing Strategy
Define and execute Affirm’s enterprise and merchant product marketing strategy across payments, commerce, and retail products. Partner with Product, Marketing, and Sales leaders to define positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategies that differentiate Affirm in the market.
Champion Product Narratives and External Storytelling
Craft key product narratives for company keynotes, investor relations, executive communications, and customer advisory boards. Turn complex technical concepts into clear, compelling stories that resonate with enterprise customers, partners, and the broader market.
Drive Go-To-Market Excellence
Partner with cross-functional teams to launch new products and features, ensuring clear value propositions and aligned enablement for sales, partnerships, and customer success. Create playbooks, messaging frameworks, and sales narratives that help internal teams effectively position Affirm’s value.
Create Feedback Systems and Market Insight Loops
Build and operationalize structured feedback loops between customer-facing teams (Sales, Success, Merchant Operations) and Product. Translate market, customer, and competitive insights into actionable product and business recommendations. Ensure that insights from merchants, partners, and consumers inform future product strategy and roadmap prioritization.
Partner Cross-Functionally to Drive Impact
Collaborate with Product and Data teams to synthesize insights from customer data, market trends, and usage analytics to inform strategic decisions. Partner with Communications, Brand, and Investor Relations to ensure consistent messaging across audiences and moments.
Represent Affirm Externally
Serve as a visible, credible voice of the company — participating in key customer meetings, industry panels, and thought leadership events. Act as a trusted advisor to enterprise partners, communicating Affirm’s innovation roadmap and market vision.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 15+ years of experience in Product Marketing, with deep expertise in enterprise, B2B, and payments or commerce ecosystems.
- Proven ability to translate complex product capabilities into differentiated market narratives.
- Experience building and leading feedback systems that connect customer insights to product decisions.
- Strong understanding of merchant and partner ecosystems across retail, commerce, or fintech.
- Demonstrated success leading go-to-market strategy for enterprise or platform products.
- Exceptional storytelling, communication, and executive influence skills — both written and verbal.
- Experience shaping and presenting narratives for executive audiences, including investor relations, keynotes, and customer advisory boards.
- Data-driven mindset with the ability to synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights.
- Comfortable operating in high-visibility, cross-functional environments with senior leaders and external stakeholders.
- A systems thinker who can connect dots between market forces, customer needs, and company strategy.
COMPENSATION
- Pay Grade - U
- Equity Grade - 17
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.
USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $285,000 - $355,000
USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $253,000 - $323,000
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.
BENEFITS
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.
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.
By clicking "Submit Application," you acknowledge that you have read Affirm's Global Candidate Privacy Notice and hereby freely and unambiguously give informed consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of your personal information as described therein.
INTRODUCTION
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. We are looking for a strategic and inspiring Senior Director of Product Marketing to lead our go-to-market strategy and narrative development across Affirm’s commerce, payments, and merchant ecosystem. This role is pivotal in shaping how Affirm shows up in the market — influencing enterprise customer adoption, informing company strategy through market and customer insights, and crafting stories that resonate across key audiences including merchants, partners, consumers, and investors. You’ll play a critical role in connecting product strategy to business impact, ensuring our messaging is consistent, differentiated, and grounded in customer truth. You will collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Sales, Marketing, Communications, and Data Science, and work closely with senior leadership to translate complex product capabilities into powerful narratives that drive understanding, adoption, and growth. This is a high-impact, highly visible role — ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of storytelling, systems thinking, and strategy, and who can build scalable programs that connect market insights to product decisions.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead Product Marketing Strategy
Define and execute Affirm’s enterprise and merchant product marketing strategy across payments, commerce, and retail products. Partner with Product, Marketing, and Sales leaders to define positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategies that differentiate Affirm in the market.
Champion Product Narratives and External Storytelling
Craft key product narratives for company keynotes, investor relations, executive communications, and customer advisory boards. Turn complex technical concepts into clear, compelling stories that resonate with enterprise customers, partners, and the broader market.
Drive Go-To-Market Excellence
Partner with cross-functional teams to launch new products and features, ensuring clear value propositions and aligned enablement for sales, partnerships, and customer success. Create playbooks, messaging frameworks, and sales narratives that help internal teams effectively position Affirm’s value.
Create Feedback Systems and Market Insight Loops
Build and operationalize structured feedback loops between customer-facing teams (Sales, Success, Merchant Operations) and Product. Translate market, customer, and competitive insights into actionable product and business recommendations. Ensure that insights from merchants, partners, and consumers inform future product strategy and roadmap prioritization.
Partner Cross-Functionally to Drive Impact
Collaborate with Product and Data teams to synthesize insights from customer data, market trends, and usage analytics to inform strategic decisions. Partner with Communications, Brand, and Investor Relations to ensure consistent messaging across audiences and moments.
Represent Affirm Externally
Serve as a visible, credible voice of the company — participating in key customer meetings, industry panels, and thought leadership events. Act as a trusted advisor to enterprise partners, communicating Affirm’s innovation roadmap and market vision.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 15+ years of experience in Product Marketing, with deep expertise in enterprise, B2B, and payments or commerce ecosystems.
- Proven ability to translate complex product capabilities into differentiated market narratives.
- Experience building and leading feedback systems that connect customer insights to product decisions.
- Strong understanding of merchant and partner ecosystems across retail, commerce, or fintech.
- Demonstrated success leading go-to-market strategy for enterprise or platform products.
- Exceptional storytelling, communication, and executive influence skills — both written and verbal.
- Experience shaping and presenting narratives for executive audiences, including investor relations, keynotes, and customer advisory boards.
- Data-driven mindset with the ability to synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights.
- Comfortable operating in high-visibility, cross-functional environments with senior leaders and external stakeholders.
- A systems thinker who can connect dots between market forces, customer needs, and company strategy.
COMPENSATION
- Pay Grade - U
- Equity Grade - 17
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.
USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $285,000 - $355,000
USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $253,000 - $323,000
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.
BENEFITS
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.
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.
By clicking "Submit Application," you acknowledge that you have read Affirm's Global Candidate Privacy Notice and hereby freely and unambiguously give informed consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of your personal information as described therein.
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Align your portfolio to fintech growth narratives
Affirm's marketing leadership hires skew toward candidates who've driven acquisition or retention in regulated financial products. Before applying, reframe your portfolio around performance metrics in payments, lending, or consumer finance rather than general brand work.
Confirm LCA filing before accepting any offer
For H-1B transfers or new filings, your employer must file a certified Labor Condition Application with DOL before USCIS can process your petition. Ask Affirm's recruiting team which law firm handles their immigration matters and confirm this step is in their offer workflow.
Target roles that sit above the marketing manager tier
Affirm's Director-level marketing openings are typically tied to product lines like Adaptive Checkout or Affirm Card. Applying to a role with clear product ownership strengthens your specialty occupation case because the degree-to-job connection is more defensible than a generalist marketing title.
Use Migrate Mate to filter Affirm's open Marketing Director roles
Affirm posts across multiple job boards, but not all listings are current. Use Migrate Mate to filter verified Marketing Director openings at Affirm that are actively sponsoring visas, so you're not wasting time on roles that won't support your visa type.
Prepare for a longer timeline if PERM is required
If you're targeting a Green Card through Affirm via the PERM labor certification process, DOL recruitment requirements add several months before your I-140 petition can be filed. Factor this into your current status expiration and discuss timeline expectations during the offer stage.
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Does Affirm sponsor H-1B visas for Marketing Directors?
Yes, Affirm sponsors H-1B visas for Marketing Director roles. Marketing Directors at Affirm typically qualify as specialty occupation workers given the degree requirements in marketing, business, or a related field. Affirm works with outside immigration counsel to handle LCA filings with DOL and petition submissions to USCIS, so the infrastructure for sponsorship is already in place.
How do I apply for Marketing Director jobs at Affirm?
Applications go through Affirm's careers portal. Most Marketing Director roles require a cover letter and resume tailored to Affirm's product ecosystem, particularly their buy-now-pay-later and merchant partnership verticals. Before applying, confirm the role explicitly mentions visa sponsorship or reach out to the recruiter directly to avoid investing time in a role that won't support your status. Migrate Mate curates verified sponsorship-eligible listings from Affirm in one place.
Which visa types does Affirm commonly use for Marketing Director roles?
Affirm sponsors H-1B, TN, and F-1 OPT for marketing leadership hires, and supports EB-2 and EB-3 Green Card pathways for longer-term employees. TN visas apply to Canadian and Mexican nationals in qualifying professional categories. F-1 OPT and STEM OPT are common entry points before transitioning to H-1B sponsorship after the annual lottery.
What qualifications does Affirm expect for a sponsored Marketing Director?
Affirm's Marketing Director roles typically require a bachelor's degree or higher in marketing, business, communications, or a closely related field, plus substantial experience in growth, brand, or product marketing within fintech or financial services. Leadership experience managing cross-functional teams and ownership of measurable revenue or acquisition outcomes are consistently emphasized across their Director-level marketing postings.
How do I think about timing when pursuing a Marketing Director role at Affirm on a work visa?
If you need an H-1B cap filing, the annual lottery runs in March for an October 1 start date. If you're already in H-1B status with another employer, Affirm can file an H-1B transfer and you can start after USCIS acknowledges receipt. OPT holders should apply early enough to leave room for premium processing if needed, since USCIS premium processing currently runs about 15 business days.
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