Affirm

Analytics Lead, Full Stack (Strategic Revenue Insights)

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

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in an analytically-driven role (consulting, finance, analytics, etc.)
  • Strong SQL proficiency and familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g. Sigma, Looker, Tableau)
  • Experience leveraging AI tools for analytics (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.)
  • Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills, particularly in ambiguous settings
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively and influence stakeholders
  • Strong organization and multi-project execution skills
  • Experience building cross-functional relationships internally and externally

Responsibilities

  • Optimize decisions by analyzing data and communicating insights to partners
  • Serve as a strategic data partner for Client Success and Marketplace Teams
  • Create business cases, insights, and dashboards to engage external merchants
  • Conduct internal analyses to assess performance and drive recommendations
  • Standardize use cases and automate analytics to enhance decision-making
  • Define KPIs and methodologies using structured and unstructured data
  • Provide analytics guidance to cross-functional teams and monitor experiment designs

Benefits

  • 100% subsidized medical coverage for employees and dependents
  • Generous stipends for Technology, Food, Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
  • Competitive vacation and holiday schedules for employee well-being
  • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) at a discount
  • Remote-first working model with flexibility in office requirements
Full Job Description
About the Role

We're looking for intelligent, driven professionals to join our Revenue Analytics team. This team is responsible for comprehensive analyses, reporting, and data solutions to support and grow our Revenue segments.

The ideal candidate will have strong analytical and problem solving skills, the ability to craft comprehensive narratives for both internal and external stakeholders, and produce tools and solutions to scale data usage with Revenue. In addition to analytical rigor, the ideal candidate has strong interpersonal skills to work proactively within the organization and with clients to drive forward recommendations.

What You'll Do

Optimize decisions and execution with analyses, and communicate to internal and external partners
  • Be a strategic partner with our Client Success and Marketplace Teams as the data SME for respective Revenue segments and merchants for their point-of-sale and Marketplace business
  • Create business cases, insights, and dashboards as well as handle experiments to engage Affirm's external merchant base; demonstrating Affirm's value proposition and product performance
  • Create internal analyses to assess Revenue performance, drive recommendations, and inform critical decisions; using insights to serve segment strategy and execution

Scale impact
  • Standardize common use cases, provide the analytics infrastructure, and automate analyses and dashboards to scale decisions and execution within Revenue and with top external merchants

Own comprehensive analytics solution
  • Define KPIs, performance benchmarks, and methodologies, including identifying and working with unstructured and structured data sources (in-house and third-party) to enable solutions and generate actionable insights
  • Provide project and analytics guidance to a cross-functional team, acting as the analytics point of contact
  • Propose, monitor, and contextualize experiment design and execution to drive optimizations of Affirm's GTM efforts, empirically quantify the value of Affirm to our prospective merchants, and upsell enhanced offers to existing merchants


What We Look For
  • 5+ years of experience in an analytically-driven role (consulting, finance, analytics, etc.)
  • Strong working knowledge of SQL, data visualization tools (e.g. Sigma, Looker, Tableau). Understanding or a demonstrated aptitude to learn Python is a plus
  • Demonstrated aptitude in leveraging AI tools for analytics (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.)
  • Exceptional problem-solving skills, including ability to operate in ambiguity and establishing analytical frameworks to apply to business problems
  • Ability to create structure in ambiguous situations, such as aligning stakeholders, or choosing the most impactful data to drive decisions
  • Ability to communicate effectively, and craft compelling narratives to influence business and technical stakeholders across all levels of the organization, internally and externally
  • Strong organization and execution skills, including ability to operate independently and drive multiple strategic initiatives simultaneously to drive business goals
  • Prior track record in building successful cross-functional relationships with partners internally and externally
  • Self-starter and a track record of successfully driving projects from end to end (from building strategy to implementation)
  • Passion and drive to disrupt both the retail and lending industry for the better
  • Enough laziness to find a faster way to do your least favorite tasks
  • Humility and a team player - you go out of your way to help teammates

Nice to Have
  • Knowledge of the FinTech or Payments industry
  • Prior experience performing data analytics for marketplace platforms
  • Demonstrated aptitude in AI tools for analytics (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.)

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 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: $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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