Senior Director, Software Engineering (Machine Learning)

Affirm

76d • $305,000 - $375,000

About The Position

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. At Affirm, we’ve been very successful in our mission in delivering honest financial products that improve lives. Machine Learning has played a significant part in helping Affirm deliver on that mission. As we look into the future, we expect ML to continue to play an outsized role. We are therefore seeking to hire a Senior Director to lead centralized Machine Learning capability at Affirm.

Requirements

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees