Staff Product Manager, Capital

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, and they are seeking a Staff Product Manager to lead their Capital Risk and Deal Reporting product area. This role focuses on building durable systems that enhance operational reliability and investor-grade reporting, ultimately helping Affirm deploy capital more efficiently.

Responsibilities:

• Own the Capital Risk & Reporting Vision: Define the long-term direction for Capital Risk and Deal Reporting systems, ensuring they scale with increasing volume, complexity, and scrutiny while supporting both operational reliability and forward-looking decision-making
• Turn Scale Into Better Capital Decisions: Enable analytical and forecasting capabilities that help Capital teams evaluate tradeoffs, plan ahead, and make higher-quality funding and P&L decisions as the platform grows
• Build the Foundational System for Investor-Grade Accuracy: Lead the development of systems that deliver consistent, timely, and trusted reporting to our Capital investors, with a strong emphasis on reconciliation, traceability, and accuracy
• Eliminate Fragility in Critical Workflows: Identify and remove sources of operational fragility by replacing manual processes, one-off logic, and ad-hoc checks with durable, automated, and well-instrumented product capabilities in our most critical workflows
• Lead Cross-Functional Execution: Act as the product anchor across Engineering, Capital Markets, Treasury, Risk, Legal and Accounting—aligning stakeholders, translating complex requirements into clear plans, and driving execution through ambiguity
• Go Deep Where It Matters: Dive into financial logic, data models, pipeline dependencies, and edge cases to ensure systems behave correctly
• Be Accountable for Outcomes: Own success metrics tied to operational stability, reporting confidence, forecasting quality, and stakeholder trust—ensuring the products you ship measurably improve how Capital operates at scale

Requirements:

• 7+ years of product management experience with prior experience in finance, accounting, capital markets, debt capital markets a big plus
• Proven ability to lead and align diverse stakeholders across Engineering, Capital Markets, Treasury, Risk, and Accounting—driving clarity, tradeoff decisions, and progress across complex, interdependent initiatives
• Demonstrated ability to take loosely defined problems, set direction independently, make tradeoffs, and drive work to completion with a strong bias toward delivery
• Comfortable working directly with data to validate assumptions, reconcile metrics, and investigate issues; strong proficiency in SQL and experience using data to drive decisions
• High bar for correctness and quality with a demonstrated ability to work with large data sets, investigate discrepancy across systems, and drive reconciliation efforts
• Able to engage deeply with engineers on system design, data models, pipelines, and tradeoffs, and to independently reason about technical constraints and implications