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About the role
Affirm is building a de novo bank, and this role will help establish and scale its operating foundation. You will own the Finxact core and digital banking experience platforms, lead deposit and lending operations strategy, and partner with servicing teams to build resilient, well-controlled processes that deliver transparent, reliable financial products. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years of relevant experience in banking operations, digital banking, financial technology, or core-platform delivery, including meaningful experience leading teams and operating in a regulated financial institution
- Hands-on experience implementing, configuring, converting, or administering a core banking platform, experience with Finxact or another modern cloud-native, API-first core is strongly preferred
- Experience owning digital account-opening and online or mobile banking platforms and coordinating integrations, user-acceptance testing, releases, production support, and vendor-driven change
- Strong understanding of bank regulatory and risk expectations applicable to deposit, lending, payments, third-party, consumer-protection, privacy, business-continuity, and operational-resilience activities
- Proven success managing critical technology and operations vendors, service levels, incidents, root-cause analysis, remediation commitments, and executive escalations
- Experience building a de novo bank, launching a new bank or digital-banking program, or completing a core conversion is strongly preferred
More about this role
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.
The Operations team delivers seamless customer experiences and enables new product capabilities while ensuring operational excellence. The team owns strategy, planning, technical execution, customer service, fraud operations, process design, quality, training, and program management. We drive efficiency, resolve issues quickly, and scale operations as the business grows. Our goal is to deliver seamless support while maintaining high standards and reducing risk.
Affirm is building a de novo bank, and this role will help establish and scale its operating foundation. You will own the Finxact core and digital banking experience platforms, lead deposit and lending operations strategy, and partner with servicing teams to build resilient, well-controlled processes that deliver transparent, reliable financial products.
- Own the implementation, configuration, and ongoing administration of Finxact as the Bank’s core system of record, including product structures, rates and fees, transaction and posting rules,...
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