Senior Director, Software Engineering (Machine Learning)

Overview

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Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. Affirm is seeking to hire a Senior Director to lead a centralized Machine Learning capability.

What You’ll Do

• Set the vision for Machine Learning and AI at Affirm. Hire world class Machine Learning modelers, Platform and Software engineers to execute on that vision.
• Take ownership of our core model development lifecycle and business outcomes across our established verticals – underwriting, fraud, servicing, personalization.
• Work closely with product and business leadership to champion AI adoption in both existing and new products.
• Balance ML investments across traditional ML and transformer based models.
• Evolve ML platform to support our increasing ML needs across Affirm with a special emphasis on training, tuning and serving AI models.
• Run a robust, yet shortened ML development lifecycle establishing a culture for experimenting and failing fast.
• Work with a wide variety of cross functional partners outside of engineering ranging from product, risk, servicing, legal and compliance.

What We Look For

• 15+ years of relevant experience in Machine Learning, AI, or related technical domains
• Experience leading centralized ML teams comprising of both ML modelers and ML platform engineers
• Successful track record in landing key models responsible for the company’s success that directly drive PnL
• Comfortable working in matrix organizations and influencing across a wide variety of leaders
• Experience hiring and growing, and retaining talent
• Keeps up with evolving ML landscape — understands when to buy vs build, and what tools/ techniques can drive the most business value

Base Pay and Equity

Base Pay Grade – V

Equity Grade – 13

Base pay range per year: $270,000 - $310,000

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). Employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company).

Work Location

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company. The majority of roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Some roles may require working from an Affirm office.

Benefits

• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets - stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules
• ESPP - Employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount

We believe it’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.

(For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco) Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Seniority level

• Director

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

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