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Affirm hires Technical Program Managers to drive complex, cross-functional initiatives across its payments infrastructure and financial products. The company has a consistent track record of sponsoring work visas for this function, supporting candidates through H-1B, OPT, and other pathways across the full employment lifecycle.
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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. The Data and Storage Services team is responsible for handling all of Affirm’s Data (OLAP and OLTP) requirements and encompasses the entire range from critical online checkout databases all the way to our Batch Orchestration, Streaming Infrastructure, Event Driven Frameworks, BI and analytics tools and systems. Our mission is to provide trustworthy, intuitive, and cost-efficient solutions for Affirmers to secure, store, analyze, and transform data at exceptional scale. We're looking for an experienced Engineering Leader to lead our growing Data and Storage Services organization, specifically our Lakehouse Analytics team. You will bring a wealth of experience in managing teams and success in delivering highly technical multi-quarter roadmaps. You will also need to be fairly comfortable with ambiguity and possess tools to work through tough deadlines, craft strategy and drive execution. You will be able to work with your teams, as well as product stakeholder teams, to define architectural/organizational future states that we can scale to in the future. You will need to make balanced calls that align with our forward-looking vision and current business & technology critical needs.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead a team of engineers and managers with empathy while fostering a high-performance, ownership-driven & inclusive culture to develop frameworks, systems, and tools for new Affirm products.
Oversee teams managing storage services including relational, key-value, and analytics storage infrastructure and tools at scale.
Understand and drive business and engineering metrics, promoting a culture of reliability, security, and productivity.
Collaborate with tech leads, program managers, and other engineering managers on security, tools, architecture, planning, and delivery of multiple concurrent projects.
Work across the engineering organization and with internal and external partners.
Provide leadership and growth opportunities to team members, mentor engineers, recruit, and represent Affirm hiring brands.
Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within the Lakehouse Analytics, Analytics Engineering and Privacy Engineering teams, shaping Affirm’s strategy for managing and serving orchestration workloads.
Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across platform engineering and product engineering organizations.
In collaboration with tech leads, develop a multi-year roadmap to design and implement frameworks, services, and tools for new Affirm products and business needs.
Guide, tutor, and aid in the professional growth of junior and senior engineers within the team.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Solid leadership and interpersonal skills.
10+ years of experience in managing multiple diverse and inclusive teams and delivering large cross-functional technical programs.
Proven track record in stakeholder management, ownership, and successful delivery.
Expertise in managing large-scale, geographically distributed compute and data processing systems, including data lake solutions and Workflow Orchestration frameworks.
Expertise in scaling frameworks like Snowflake, Spark, Flink and, Kafka on Kubernetes and cloud providers like AWS, leveraging storage systems such as AWS S3 and Apache Iceberg.
Capable of mentorship, cross-functional project execution, and individual contribution.
Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with a growth mindset.
Experience in the data infrastructure domain and a passion for leading technical teams and contributing to Open Source solutions.
* This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
COMPENSATION
Pay Grade - R
Equity Grade - 15
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: $260,000 - $310,000
USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $232,000 - $282,000
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. The Data and Storage Services team is responsible for handling all of Affirm’s Data (OLAP and OLTP) requirements and encompasses the entire range from critical online checkout databases all the way to our Batch Orchestration, Streaming Infrastructure, Event Driven Frameworks, BI and analytics tools and systems. Our mission is to provide trustworthy, intuitive, and cost-efficient solutions for Affirmers to secure, store, analyze, and transform data at exceptional scale. We're looking for an experienced Engineering Leader to lead our growing Data and Storage Services organization, specifically our Lakehouse Analytics team. You will bring a wealth of experience in managing teams and success in delivering highly technical multi-quarter roadmaps. You will also need to be fairly comfortable with ambiguity and possess tools to work through tough deadlines, craft strategy and drive execution. You will be able to work with your teams, as well as product stakeholder teams, to define architectural/organizational future states that we can scale to in the future. You will need to make balanced calls that align with our forward-looking vision and current business & technology critical needs.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead a team of engineers and managers with empathy while fostering a high-performance, ownership-driven & inclusive culture to develop frameworks, systems, and tools for new Affirm products.
Oversee teams managing storage services including relational, key-value, and analytics storage infrastructure and tools at scale.
Understand and drive business and engineering metrics, promoting a culture of reliability, security, and productivity.
Collaborate with tech leads, program managers, and other engineering managers on security, tools, architecture, planning, and delivery of multiple concurrent projects.
Work across the engineering organization and with internal and external partners.
Provide leadership and growth opportunities to team members, mentor engineers, recruit, and represent Affirm hiring brands.
Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within the Lakehouse Analytics, Analytics Engineering and Privacy Engineering teams, shaping Affirm’s strategy for managing and serving orchestration workloads.
Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across platform engineering and product engineering organizations.
In collaboration with tech leads, develop a multi-year roadmap to design and implement frameworks, services, and tools for new Affirm products and business needs.
Guide, tutor, and aid in the professional growth of junior and senior engineers within the team.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Solid leadership and interpersonal skills.
10+ years of experience in managing multiple diverse and inclusive teams and delivering large cross-functional technical programs.
Proven track record in stakeholder management, ownership, and successful delivery.
Expertise in managing large-scale, geographically distributed compute and data processing systems, including data lake solutions and Workflow Orchestration frameworks.
Expertise in scaling frameworks like Snowflake, Spark, Flink and, Kafka on Kubernetes and cloud providers like AWS, leveraging storage systems such as AWS S3 and Apache Iceberg.
Capable of mentorship, cross-functional project execution, and individual contribution.
Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with a growth mindset.
Experience in the data infrastructure domain and a passion for leading technical teams and contributing to Open Source solutions.
* This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
COMPENSATION
Pay Grade - R
Equity Grade - 15
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: $260,000 - $310,000
USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $232,000 - $282,000
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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Frame your TPM credentials around financial systems
Affirm's TPM roles focus on payment rails, credit underwriting, and regulatory compliance programs. Tailor your resume to show experience managing technical programs in regulated financial environments, not just general software delivery.
Target roles that cross engineering and compliance
Affirm frequently needs TPMs who can coordinate between product engineering and risk or compliance teams. Roles at this intersection tend to require specialized domain knowledge, which strengthens the specialty occupation argument for H-1B petitions.
Ask recruiters about cap-exempt filing options early
If you've held H-1B status before or were counted against the cap at a prior employer, you may be eligible for cap-exempt transfer. Clarify this with Affirm's recruiting team before the April H-1B lottery window closes.
Use Migrate Mate to identify open TPM roles at Affirm
Affirm posts Technical Program Manager openings across multiple teams and locations. Use Migrate Mate to filter specifically for Affirm TPM roles that align with your visa type, so you're applying to positions the company is actively sponsoring.
Align your offer timeline with USCIS processing windows
H-1B employment can begin October 1 after an April lottery selection. If you receive an offer outside that window, discuss whether Affirm will file with premium processing to reduce the USCIS adjudication period to roughly 15 business days.
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Find Technical Program Manager at Affirm JobsFrequently Asked Questions
Does Affirm sponsor H-1B visas for Technical Program Managers?
Yes, Affirm sponsors H-1B visas for Technical Program Manager roles. TPM positions at Affirm generally qualify as specialty occupations under USCIS standards because they require a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific technical field. Affirm has a consistent history of filing H-1B petitions for this function, including both new cap-subject filings and transfers for candidates already holding H-1B status.
How do I apply for Technical Program Manager jobs at Affirm?
Apply directly through Affirm's careers site or use Migrate Mate to browse open Technical Program Manager positions at Affirm filtered by visa sponsorship eligibility. When applying, highlight experience managing technical programs in fintech, payments, or regulated financial services. Affirm's TPM hiring process typically includes recruiter screens, technical program design assessments, and cross-functional stakeholder interviews.
Which visa types does Affirm sponsor for Technical Program Manager roles?
Affirm sponsors H-1B visas for experienced TPM hires and supports F-1 OPT and CPT for students and recent graduates entering TPM roles. TN status is available for Canadian and Mexican nationals whose background meets the applicable USMCA occupation categories. For longer-term permanent residence, Affirm has pursued EB-2 and EB-3 Green Card sponsorship for employees in this function.
What qualifications does Affirm expect for Technical Program Manager roles?
Affirm typically looks for candidates with a bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, combined with experience managing large-scale, cross-functional programs in a technology-driven environment. For fintech-focused TPM roles, familiarity with payment systems, risk infrastructure, or regulatory compliance programs is a strong differentiator. Senior roles often expect prior experience leading programs that span engineering, product, and operations.
How do I time my application around H-1B sponsorship at Affirm?
The H-1B cap lottery opens in March each year, with employment starting October 1 if selected. To align, target an offer from Affirm by late February or early March. If you miss the lottery cycle, discuss whether Affirm will consider premium processing for a cap-exempt scenario or whether your OPT authorization covers the gap until the next filing window.
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