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. We are seeking a Senior Director to lead centralized Machine Learning capability at Affirm, with a focus on guiding ML strategy, development, and platform growth across the organization.

• Set the vision for Machine Learning and AI e world-class ML modelers, platform and software engineers to execute on that vision.
• Take ownership of our core model development lifecycle and business outcomes across underwriting, fraud, servicing, and 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 increasing ML needs with emphasis on training, tuning and serving AI models.
• Run a robust, yet shortened ML development lifecycle, establishing a culture of experimentation and fast iteration.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners outside of engineering including product, risk, servicing, legal and compliance.

• 15+ years of relevant experience in Machine Learning, AI, or related technical domains
• Experience leading centralized ML teams comprising ML modelers and ML platform engineers
• Successful track record in delivering models that directly drive business outcomes and PnL
• Comfortable working in matrix organizations and influencing across leaders
• Experience hiring, growing, and retaining talent
• Keeps up with evolving ML landscape; understands when to buy vs build and what tools/techniques drive business value

Base pay grade: V;
Equity grade: 21. Base pay ranges: USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $340,000 - $375,000; USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $305,000 - $340,000. Affirm offers a remote-first environment with some roles potentially requiring office presence. Benefits include health coverage for you and dependents, Flexible Spending Wallets, time off, and ESPP among others.

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• Seniority level:
  Director
• Employment type:
  
  Full-time
• Job function:
  Engineering and Information Technology

Note:

This description may include placeholders or ancillary postings related to nearby roles. The core role remains focused on leading Affirm’s ML-driven software engineering efforts.