The opportunity
At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most.
What you'll do
Lead, develop, and support engineers across the Marketing and Consumer: Privacy pillars, creating an environment where they can do their best work, grow their craft, and take on greater responsibility.
Establish and continuously improve a shared operating model for MPE that: unites Marketing and Privacy around a common mission while creating clarity around each pillar’s priorities, technical ownership, decision-making, and ways of working.
Partner closely with the Product Manager and technical lead for each pillar: to translate product and business priorities into clear engineering plans and deliver against their respective roadmaps while maintaining alignment to MPE’s shared mission.
Guide engineering strategy and execution across Logged-Out Web, web: experimentation, marketing integrations, attribution and measurement, consent, privacy experiences, and consumer data collection.
Build strong partnerships across Engineering, Product, Marketing, Privacy,: Legal, and adjacent engineering teams, establishing clear ownership and reliable ways of working across shared systems such as client-side and server-side tagging and measurement infrastructure.
Enable privacy-aware engineering by ensuring consent, cookies, tagging, and: consumer data collection are considered as part of solution design and by creating alignment where growth, measurement, and consumer privacy intersect.
What they're looking for
- Hold the team accountable for delivering reliable, scalable solutions while: balancing engineering quality, customer needs, business priorities, speed, and appropriate risk.
- Experience managing and developing software engineers, with a track record of: building collaborative, high-performing teams through coaching, candid feedback, and accountability.
- Strong software engineering foundation and technical judgment, ideally with: experience leading teams responsible for consumer-facing or high-traffic web platforms and complex systems or integrations.
- Experience translating product and business priorities into engineering plans: and leading execution across distinct technical domains, product partners, and roadmaps toward a shared mission.
