Director, Global People Programs

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.
We're looking for a passionate innovator to take our People Programs team to the next level. In this highly dynamic and visible role you'll help scale our team and programming. You'll be equal parts performance management visionary, remote work and internal comms strategist, and coach. You recognize the need to evolve people programs in a remote first hybrid work environment, and are eager to create a "beyond best practice" next practice global approach.
What You'll Do

• Lead and continue to grow our highly collaborative People Programs team to ensure we're fostering a culture of feedback, impactful employee engagement action planning, and initiatives that drive celebration of our core values-regardless of where employees are in their careers, or in the organization, or in the world!
• You will be the driving force in evolving Affirm's global performance management strategy. The team will design, program manage, and execute Affirm's performance management.
• Lead and develop Affirm's internal communications strategy
• Provide thought leadership around company-wide programming in support of performance management, feedback, capability models, and talent mobility.
• Partner with the People Business Partner function to continue to scale our current programming in our remote first, hybrid, hyper-growth work environment, recognizing people come first. You'll analyze the current program scope and design, perform an ongoing needs assessment to help guide the evolution.
• Build strong partnerships with Employee Resource Groups to guide performance management and engagement and communications efforts.
• Define, measure, analyze, and communicate out the People Programs team's success metrics.

What We Look For

• You've managed and led performance management teams and employee engagement programming that support a growing global workforce for 2000+ employees. And you've leveraged appropriate technologies to help it all scale. You have repeated success in growing people programs across geographies and through merger and acquisition activity.
• 12+ years of experience highlighting a combination of performance management strategy, program design including bias mitigation, and company-wide employee engagement initiatives.
• A track record of people program development that delivers bias mitigation, business impact and positive ROI for the organization.
• Strong relationship-building skills to work collaboratively with partners across the organization.
• Excellent communication skills, with an appetite for distilling sophisticated information to what matters most.
• A "how can we make this better?" mentality.

Location - Remote U.S.
Grade - USA31
Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
#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.
[For U.S. Candidates] All full-time jobs at Affirm (excluding interns and apprentices) are tied to a transparent grade-based pay range taking location into account. The grade for this position is noted above and in accordance with various U.S. pay transparency laws, we provide the base pay range and benefits for our U.S.-based positions in the links below:
Jobs in Grades 21 through 54
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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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