Senior Product Design Manager, Debit+

At Affirm, we’re reinventing consumer finance by delivering honest financial products that improve lives. We offer financing better than traditional credit, and because of our values, we never charge hidden fees. Affirm is dedicated to changing the way consumer finance works, and we’re just getting started.

We're looking for a Product Design Leader for Debit+, a new category of product that is currently in beta and will continue to expand its reach. You’ll create the long term design strategy working with a GM of product management, engineering and analytics to continuously grow the product and offering. You’ve demonstrated delivering high quality consumer financial experience through building high functioning design teams that are inspired by consumer insights and data. You’re intrigued how you can enable our consumers' lives through payments and see an opportunity for a win-win-win relationship for our consumers, merchants and Affirm. You’re opinionated about product direction down to the pixels, words, and are relentless about improving the experience.

You partner well with other experience design leadership including design, research and content to ensure cohesion across the design organization and help drive internal cultural change to champion our merchants and consumers. 

This role will report to the VP of Design and Research.

What you’ll do:

• Drive and lead the vision for our Debit+ Financial Product
• Lead teams from complex and ambiguous situations to clarity and focus
• Hire and build a healthy team culture of highly talented designers through ambiguity and change during hypergrowth
• Able to engage internally with stakeholders & execs to enable the team's success
• Co-develop the product strategy with product management and engineering through identifying opportunities to invest in for long term growth and innovation
• Support with prioritization of short term to long term results-oriented work that drives impact through high quality and successful execution across several product areas
• Establish operational rigor for design: using principles, frameworks, qualitative and quantitative insights to guide your team for continuous growth of the function and the product
• Foster an inclusive environment to allow teams to thrive

What we look for:

• 7+ years experience in product design focused roles, with specific experience in consumer financial products
• 2+ years experience leadership experience with direct reports under your guidance and leadership
• Demonstrated experience of growing a strategic practice of design and hiring strong design teams
• Demonstrated strong eye for executional craft with an obsession of design details with knowing how to make trade offs to get in market to learn
• Demonstrated ability of operational rigor to improve the culture of the team and cross functional partnerships.
• A demonstrated portfolio of you/your team working cross-functionally, thinking strategically across the experience and shipping successful mobile app experiences in a fast-paced environment. (Required)