Affirm

Staff Product Manager, Affirm Bank

Affirm$200K — $275K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of product management experience
  • Experience in financial services or highly regulated environments
  • Deep card payments ecosystem expertise
  • Bonus: experience with customer support platforms and AI service operations
  • Exceptional communication and storytelling skills
  • Strong product judgment and ability to improve operational efficiency
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguity and drive execution
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

  • Understand customer and agent needs through research and data
  • Champion operational excellence to streamline workflows
  • Design scalable systems with AI and automation
  • Drive an ambitious roadmap from concept to launch
  • Translate insights into a clear product vision
  • Define metrics for performance measurement
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • Own ambiguity and lead innovation in a fast-paced environment

Benefits

  • 100% subsidized medical coverage for you and dependents
  • Generous stipends for technology, food, and lifestyle needs
  • Competitive vacation and holiday schedules
  • Employee stock purchase plan at a discount
Full Job Description
We're looking for a Staff Product Manager to own the end-to-end bank product: operationalizing a new bank charter within Affirm's ecosystem, launching the deposit product, driving loan originations through the bank entity, and ensuring seamless integration across Affirm's platform. This is a rare opportunity to build a foundational new business line from the ground up - one that will reshape how Affirm funds, serves, and grows relationships with its consumers. You'll work at the intersection of regulated banking, platform engineering, and consumer products to bring Affirm's bank to life.

What You'll Do
  • Own the end-to-end bank product. Serve as the single-threaded product owner across deposits, loan originations, banking compliance, and operations. You are the person who holds the full picture of how the bank works within Affirm's ecosystem - and you drive it forward.
  • Launch and own the bank's deposit product. Ship Affirm's bank deposit offering as part of launch, then own the deposit product roadmap on a go-forward basis - scaling from early launch to a multi-billion-dollar deposit base, making strategic decisions about how deposits integrate with Affirm's credit products and broader consumer experience.
  • Operationalize the de novo bank build. Drive the cross-functional work required to stand up and scale bank operations - ensuring regulatory readiness, process maturity, vendor integrations, and seamless connectivity with Affirm's existing lending and money movement infrastructure.
  • Drive originations through the bank entity. Shape how Affirm originates and retains loans through its own bank, working closely with Credit, Capital Markets, Engineering, and Treasury to optimize volume ramp, unit economics, loan sale and retention mechanics, and regulatory compliance.
  • Navigate banking compliance and regulatory requirements. Partner with Legal, Compliance, Risk, and the Bank's executive team to ensure all products and operations meet federal and state regulatory standards. Build compliance into the product from day one - not as an afterthought. Understand the unique demands of a de novo bank under FDIC and state supervision.
  • Integrate the bank deposit product into Affirm's consumer ecosystem. Define clear domain boundaries, design requirements for new data flows, and integration points between the bank and Affirm Inc. - working across Servicing, Settlements, Consumer Payments, Checkout, and Growth teams to ensure the bank's products work seamlessly within the Affirm app and platform.
  • Influence up and across the organization. Communicate strategy, tradeoffs, and priorities to senior leadership and the Bank Board with clarity and conviction. Build alignment across a broad set of stakeholders - Engineering, Legal, Compliance, Treasury, Capital Markets, and executive leadership - who each bring different constraints and incentives.

What we look for
  • 6+ years of product management experience, with demonstrated ability to operate as a strategic, independent leader on complex, ambiguous initiatives
  • Proven program leadership at scale - you've owned high visibility cross-functional launches across many stakeholders, with direct exposure to executive leadership and/or boards.
  • Experience in banking, deposits, or lending - you understand deposit products, bank charter operations, or loan origination mechanics and the regulatory landscape that governs them
  • Bank charter experience is strongly preferred - you've been through or contributed meaningfully to a de novo bank launch or early-stage bank buildout
  • Deposit product strategy experience is a strong plus - you've defined or scaled deposit products such as high yield savings accounts, spending accounts, or CDs, and you understand the levers of deposit growth, pricing, and consumer acquisition
  • Experience in fintech, financial services, or banking; familiarity with BNPL, neobanking, or platform products is a plus
  • Strong technical fluency - you're comfortable working with engineers on system design, data models, API architecture, and core banking platform integrations
  • Proficiency with AI-assisted tools (e.g., Claude, Cursor) to accelerate your own work and raise the bar for quality and speed
  • Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional alignment across Legal, Compliance, Engineering, Finance, and executive leadership in highly regulated environments
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication - you can distill complex regulatory and financial concepts into clear, compelling narratives for diverse audiences including regulators, executives, and engineering teams
  • Bias for action and intellectual curiosity - you move fast, ask hard questions, and take ownership before being asked
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience


Pay Grade - P
Equity Grade - 13

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: $225,000 - $275,000
USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $200,000 - $250,000

#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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