Affirm is seeking to hire a Senior Director to lead centralized Machine Learning capability to continue to play an outsized role in delivering honest financial products that improve lives.
Requirements
- 15+ years of relevant experience in Machine Learning, AI, or related technical domains
- Experience leading centralized ML teams comprising of both ML modelers and ML platform engineers
- Keeps up with evolving ML landscape — understands when to buy vs build, and what tools/ techniques can drive the most business value
Responsibilities
- Set the vision for Machine Learning and AI at Affirm. Hire world class Machine Learning modelers, Platform and Software engineers to execute on that vision.
- Take ownership of our core model development lifecycle and business outcomes across our established verticals – underwriting, fraud, servicing, personalization.
- Balance ML investments across traditional ML and transformer based models
- Evolve ML platform to support our increasing ML needs across Affirm with a special emphasis on training, tuning and serving AI models.
- Run a robust, yet shortened ML development lifecycle establishing a culture for experimenting and failing fast.
Other
- Work closely with product and business leadership to champion AI adoption in both existing and new products.
- Work with a wide variety of cross functional partners outside of engineering ranging from product, risk, servicing, legal and compliance.
- Successful track record in landing key models responsible for the company’s success that directly drive PnL
- Comfortable working in matrix organizations and influencing across a wide variety of leaders.
- Experience hiring and growing, and retaining talent
