Affirm

Analytics Lead, Full Stack

Affirm$164K — $245K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in analytical roles affecting product or business decisions
  • Expertise in consumer lending and credit, especially in risk and product areas
  • Advanced skills in SQL and Python with focus on statistical analysis
  • Exceptional communication skills tailored for both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Demonstrated leadership ability to mentor others and manage multiple projects

Responsibilities

  • Own analytics strategy for a significant business area, driving investment and performance metrics
  • Lead complex analyses balancing growth, credit risk, and customer experience
  • Convert analytical insights into actionable business recommendations for leadership
  • Design experiments to test product-market fit and economic viability of solutions
  • Collaborate across teams to influence decision-making without formal authority
  • Create scalable models and dashboards to enhance data insights and governance
  • Mentor junior analysts and formalize reusable analytical practices

Benefits

  • 100% subsidized medical coverage for you and your dependents
  • Generous stipends for technology, food, lifestyle, and family-forming expenses
  • Competitive vacation and holiday schedules to support work-life balance
  • Discounted employee stock purchase plan to enable ownership in the company
Full Job Description
The POS Analytics team is looking for an Analytics Lead, Full Stack to support our next phase of growth with major platform partners. In this role, you will drive the growth strategy for these partnerships, identify and size growth opportunities, shape product and investment decisions, and measure the impact of key initiatives. You will work closely with our Strategic Partnerships, Product, Finance, Engineering, and Pricing teams. You should combine exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills with a general manager mindset, strong cross-functional leadership, and deep knowledge of the lending and/or payments space.

What you'll do
  • Own and prioritize the analytics portfolio for a significant product or business area, operating with a business owner mindset to define success, identify investment opportunities, recommend actions, and measure impact across customer experience, growth, risk, and profitability.
  • Lead complex analyses that balance growth, credit performance, customer experience, and unit economics.
  • Translate analytical findings into clear and compelling narratives and business cases that help leadership make informed decisions.
  • Tackle ambiguous problems by identifying the core hypotheses and designing actionable experiments to validate product-market fit and economic viability.
  • Lead through influence across Product, Engineering, Finance, and Revenue, building alignment around important decisions without formal authority.
  • Build scalable data models, metrics, dashboards, and AI-assisted analytical workflows that improve access to trusted insights while maintaining rigorous validation, reproducibility, and data governance.
  • Raise the impact of the analytics organization by mentoring analysts and developing reusable analytical practices and tools.

What we look for
  • A General Manager mindset, strong product and credit risk judgment, and a track record of proactively identifying high-impact opportunities.
  • Strong understanding of the consumer lending and credit industry, including lending economics, portfolio performance, and credit metrics. The strongest candidates will bring experience across both risk and product and understand the tradeoffs among growth, credit performance, customer experience, and profitability.
  • The ability to perform complex analyses and translate the results into clear, actionable business recommendations.
  • Exceptional communication and influencing skills across technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leaders.
  • 6 or more years of experience in a cross-functional analytical role, with demonstrated impact on significant product, risk, or business decisions.
  • Advanced SQL and Python skills, including statistical analysis, experimental design, and practical experience with A/B testing.
  • Demonstrated curiosity and a growth mindset, with hands-on experience using AI-powered tools such as Cursor, Claude, or similar assistants to accelerate analysis, automate workflows, enhance problem-solving, and advocate for AI adoption across analytical workflows.
  • The ability to independently prioritize a roadmap, manage multiple workstreams, and mentor other analysts.
  • A bachelor's degree in a quantitatively rigorous field-or equivalent practical experience. An advanced degree is a plus.

Pay Grade - M
Equity Grade - 8

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 monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents). In addition, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company).

USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $185,000 - $245,000
USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $164,000 - $224,000

#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

About Affirm

Affirm is a publicly traded financial technology company headquartered in San Francisco, United States. Founded in 2012, the company operates as a financial lender of installment loans for consumers to use at the point of sale to finance a purchase. Affirm was founded in 2012 by Max Levchin, Nathan Gettings, Jeffrey Kaditz, and Alex Rampell as part of the initial portfolio of startup studio HVF. Levchin, who co-founded PayPal, became CEO of Affirm in 2014. In October 2017, the company launched a consumer app that allowed loans for purchases at any retailer. The company announced a partnership with Walmart in February 2019. Under the partnership, Affirm is available to customers in-store and on the Walmart website. Affirm has partnered with e-commerce platforms including Shopify, BigCommerce, and Zen-Cart. On November 18, 2020, Affirm filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in preparation for an initial public offering. On December 12, 2020, it was reported that Affirm had postponed its IPO. On January 13, 2021, Affirm became listed on NASDAQ with symbol AFRM, raising about $1.2 billion in its IPO. By the next day, the price of shares had doubled, making Levchin's stake worth about $2.5 billion. In May 2021, Affirm acquired Returnly, a financial technology service company, for $300 million.
Learn more about Affirm
Size
1,300 employees
Market Cap
$2.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$97.6 million
Founded
2012
Revenue
$617.1 million
NASDAQ

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