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.
Join the IT Engineering team to help build the next chapter of enterprise IT at Affirm – ensuring great employee experiences and supporting the company’s ongoing growth. As a remote-first company, our tools and technology are critical to enabling all Affirmers; if you're passionate about delivering work with meaningful impact, this is the place for you!
We’re looking for a Director of IT to lead our Asset Management, Logistics, and Client Engineering functions. In this role, you will be directly responsible for driving our IT maturity forward and enabling the enterprise’s future growth. You will partner closely with the SAAS Engineering and IT Support teams to deliver process and technology solutions that enable them to support our internal customers while meeting our security, compliance and business objectives.
This role will report directly to the Senior Director, IT Engineering.
What You’ll Do
Define and implement Affirm’s ITSM strategy
Implement new Asset management platform
Define and track health metrics
Develop software asset management strategy and approach
Recommend cmdb approach that makes sense for managing a primarily SAAS environment
Establish IT governance and change control processes as needed
Ensure internal policy adherence
Lead the Client Engineering Team
Remotely deploy and manage Affirm devices
Define and implement OS version testing strategy
Improve Affirm’s security posture through active vulnerability management
Responsible for logistics and hardware acquisition
Help develop IT’s 3-year strategy
Serve as a trusted member of the IT leadership team
Navigate and manage within an environment of ambiguity with diverse partners
What We Look For
10+ years of experience with IT management or related experience
Hands-on experience working in a matrixed organization
An understanding of leveraging Jamf MDM to ensure accurate, secure, and efficient data governance
Excellent communication skills
Experience with negotiation and resolving conflict from a place of listening and collaboration
Pay Grade - S
Equity Grade - 7
Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.
Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents). In addition, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company).
CAN base pay range per year: $179,000 CAD - $259,000 CAD
#LI-Remote
Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.
We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:
We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.
[For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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