Senior Manager, Product Security

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. Affirm proudly includes Returnly. 

Affirm values information security as a critical part of the company’s continued success. Our mission is to make information security programmatic and cultural in Affirm, enabling the company to succeed in building honest financial products. The Security team increases security posture and reduces risk while securely enabling access to information for those who need it!

The Senior Manager of the Product Security team will build a program around systemic investigations of security issues and driving remediation programs. The ideal candidate will work effectively with product and engineering teams to identify root causes and eliminate anti-patterns from Affirm’s products.

What You'll Do

• Be the direct manager for information security engineers in the region – including elements of product security and enterprise security.
• Build relationships, provide security guidance, and drive initiatives with local development leaders.
• Drive research of critical CVEs/zero days and determine impact to Affirm.
• Engage historical vulnerability data to identify common themes and advocate for novel solutions to address issues.
• Audit our cloud environments to determine risks and facilitate required remediations to eliminate common vulnerability classes.
• Explore new solutions (vendor or open source) to bridge security gaps, tune existing tools, and develop custom rules to improve overall detection efficacy (less false positives, more true positives).
• Establish an external presence to showcase innovative techniques discovered by Affirm through publications and participation in industry events.

What We Look For

• A proven compassionate leader with demonstrated involvement in the security community.
• A curious mind who likes to tinker with systems to see what breaks.
• A passion to stay on top of the latest technology trends and security developments.
• Ability to organize datasets into actionable intelligence.

Compensation & Benefits

We offer a competitive package, with some highlights listed below.  However, the given figures are not guaranteed compensation ranges; rather, they are unbinding, approximate indications of what the salary may be for your awareness. The actual salary may be less than the lower range or greater than the upper range, depending on skills and experience. No employee is guaranteed salary at the amount of the lower range.

• Targeted Gross Monthly Salary: 30,175 - 33,192 PLN
• Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
• Generous time off policies 
• Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
• Learning & Development programs
• Parental leave
• Robust health benefits
• Employee Resource & Community Groups

Location - Remote Poland

Grade - 32

#LI-Remote

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and can be located anywhere in the U.S. and Canada (with the exception of the U.S. Territories, Quebec, Yukon, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories) unless the job indicates a different global location. We are currently building operations in Spain, Poland, and Australia.  Employees in remote roles have the option of working remotely or from an Affirm office in their country of hire, and may occasionally travel to an Affirm office or elsewhere for required meetings or team-building events. Our offices in Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and Toronto will remain operational and accessible for anyone to use on a voluntary basis, subject to local COVID-19 guidelines.

All full-time jobs at Affirm (excluding interns and apprentices) are tied to a transparent grade-based pay range taking location into account. 

[Colorado Candidates] In accordance with Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the grade for this position in Colorado is listed above. You can find the Colorado base pay range and benefits here.

If you got this far, we hope you're feeling excited about this role. Even if you don't feel you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet people who believe in Affirm's mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways—not just candidates who check all the boxes.   Inclusivity:

At Affirm, People Come First is one of our core values, and that’s why diversity and inclusion are vital to our priorities as an equal opportunity employer. You can read about our D&I program here and our progress thus far in our 2021 DEI Report.

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