Teams at Affirm

Leads Affirm’s zero-to-one product initiatives in partnership with the CEO and executive team. Owns product vision, strategy, roadmaps, customer discovery, prototyping, experimentation, launches, and iteration for new products and platforms. Coordinates engineering, design, data, risk, legal, operations, and revenue teams without direct authority. Defines success metrics, analyzes customer behavior, communicates tradeoffs, and establishes repeatable product development standards.

Own end-to-end analytical problems across risk, fraud, growth, and lending products. Develop strategies, monitor portfolio and macroeconomic trends, build metrics and analytical frameworks with Engineering and Machine Learning teams, and influence product, regulatory, compliance, and launch decisions. Engage external partners, translate complex insights into action, create AI-assisted workflows, and mentor junior analysts.

Lead backend engineering for capacity modeling systems that forecast traffic, resource needs, and infrastructure scaling. Own quarterly team goals, guide engineers through complex problems, collaborate with product and analytics stakeholders, improve code and design standards, monitor system availability, support on-call operations, and develop team talent. Build highly available distributed systems, tune autoscaling and compute performance, and deliver scalable features using Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.