Staff Technical Program Manager

3 weeks ago


Old Toronto, Canada Affirm Full time

We're looking for an experienced, motivated Staff Technical Program Manager to oversee high visibility programs for our Security team and streamline our processes for building great, secure customer and merchant products. As our products scale in complexity to meet our accelerating business and expanding product lines, our Security practices need to scale with it. You will help our Security teams develop processes and frameworks for building quality software, while evaluating new technology developments to drive potential features and products. This role requires a combination of program management, technical understanding, and security expertise.

What you'll do

  • Drive complex, multi-disciplinary, and highly visible technical projects in service of our team’s mission of expanding our consumer product suite and platform capabilities
  • Coordinate across many information security teams, engineering teams and non-engineering stakeholders through the full project lifecycle to plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company
  • Understand information security frameworks, technical implementation at the architecture level and propose security/technical alternatives, ask questions that clarify priorities and push the team to be effective, and develop domain and technical knowledge
  • Work closely with our leads and partners in Security, Product, Engineering, Design, Infrastructure (Cloud Native), Operations and Analytics to map out strategies and roadmaps
  • Track progress, resolve dependencies, evaluate risks, and communicate status to upper management and project stakeholders, and engage the project teams to achieve goals

What we look for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience; advanced certifications such as CISSP or CISM is a plus
  • 8-10 years of proven experience managing information security programs, such as; risk assessments, vulnerability management, platform and product security
  • Knowledgeable about implementing metrics to effectively manage and evaluate the progress and success of programs
  • Remain up-to-date with the latest threat landscape and be aware of new vulnerabilities/risks that could potentially impact the product/platform
  • Skilled at working with diverse teams to plan strategies, experienced in successfully launching software projects, and excellent at communicating clearly
  • Passion and drive to change consumer finance for the better
  • Obsesses over getting the details right but knows how to ship on time
  • Working and driving strategic programs and building a remote friendly culture.
  • Actively mentors and levels up team members
  • Track record of successfully driving complex large technology applications and geographically distributed backend systems.
  • Track record of strong stakeholder management with Infrastructure, Engineering, Product, Design, Analytics, and other cross-functional teams.
  • Prior experience in FinTech, Payments or Commerce is a plus

Pay Grade - CAN30

Employees new to Affirm or promoted into a new role, typically begin in the min to mid range.

CAN base pay range per year:

Min: $123,200

Mid: $154,000

Max: $184,800

Location - Remote Canada

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