Affirm

Senior Accounts Management Manager

Affirm$205K — $306K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree with 7-10 years of B2B client-facing experience in a high-tech environment
  • Proven track record of negotiating and closing large, complex commercial contracts with F100 companies
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capable of delivering compelling presentations
  • Experienced in leading cross-functional projects with keen attention to detail
  • Ability to foster and manage productive relationships to influence outcomes, demonstrating strong executive presence
  • Strong analytical skills to evaluate merchant performance and communicate results effectively
  • Familiarity with retail, consumer finance offerings, and e-commerce preferred
  • Proficient with Salesforce and standard BI tools
  • Willingness to travel 10% - 20% of the time

Responsibilities

  • Act as SEM and team lead across omni-retail for managing complex accounts
  • Oversee a portfolio of key strategic accounts, driving strategic initiatives and contract negotiations
  • Execute account plans that include financing optimizations and marketing strategies
  • Analyze partner performance and recommend programs to boost product adoption
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams to implement partnership initiatives
  • Manage customer health to ensure satisfaction and desired business outcomes
  • Drive customer advocacy by collaborating with product and support teams to enhance offerings

Benefits

  • 100% subsidized medical coverage for you and your dependents
  • Generous stipends for technology, food, lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
  • Competitive vacation and holiday schedules for rest and recharge
  • Employee stock purchase plan allowing purchase of shares at a discount
Full Job Description
About the Role:

Affirm is committed to building lasting partnerships with merchants for long term growth and ongoing revenue generation. As a Key Account Manager, you will join a growing team driving value and growth with large strategic merchants. This is a high-profile, customer-facing role requiring outstanding results-oriented, relationship and program management skills.

This role oversees a portfolio of Affirm's strategic accounts with the goal of driving ambitious results across the business. Success in this role entails delivering strong results, collaborating across different teams and levels with key stakeholders, strong analytical skills and excellent executive presence including written and verbal communications.
What You'll Do:
  • Act as SEM and team lead across omni-retail for best practices on managing complex accounts, driving outcomes and building relationships
  • You will oversee a large portfolio of key strategic accounts and will be responsible for developing and driving strategic initiatives including complex contract negotiation, pricing and expansion opportunities to drive revenue and General Merchandise Volume (GMV).
  • You will lead and execute sophisticated account plans that include financing optimizations, executive relationship engagement, and marketing strategies, often against ambitious timelines
  • You will analyze partner performance and recommend programs to increase product adoption, grow up-funnel awareness and visibility, and sell into expansion opportunities.
  • You will orchestrate cross-functional teams across our Product, Technical, Credit, Analytics, Marketing, and Risk teams to execute partnership initiatives and drive business results.
  • Manage customer health to ensure overall customer satisfaction and business results
  • Drive customer advocacy and critical issues by collaborating with development, product management, and support teams to improve the Affirm offering for our merchants
What We Look For:
  • Bachelor's degree with 7-10 years of B2B client-facing experience in a high-tech environment and evidence of account growth/impact
  • Experience negotiating and closing large, complex commercial contracts for F100 companies
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to give compelling presentations
  • Experience in leading cross-functional projects with a high attention to detail
  • Ability to build and manage productive internal and external relationships and influence towards outcomes; outstanding executive presence
  • Excellent analytical abilities to review merchant performance and report on the impact of specific programs to internal and external stakeholders
  • Knowledge of retail, consumer finance offerings, integrated software solutions, and e-commerce preferred
  • Comfortable using Salesforce and standard BI tools
  • Comfortable with travel 10% - 20% of the time


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. For sales roles, the range provided is the role's On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, which includes the annual base pay and the sales incentive target.

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 On Target Earnings (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $231,250 - $306,250

USA On Target Earnings (all other U.S. states) per year: $205,000 - $280,000

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

#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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