Director, Analytics, Strategic Insights

Affirm Affirm · Fintech · Canada, United States · Remote · Revenue Operations & Analytics

Director of Analytics for Affirm's Revenue team, focusing on strategic insights, business performance, and growth opportunities. The role involves partnering with leaders, delivering analytics, identifying risks and opportunities, owning the strategic narrative, and managing a team. There is an emphasis on leveraging AI and automation to improve team workflows and analytical capabilities.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as a strategic partner to a Revenue segment leaders across our Independent Software Vendors (ISV) and Strategic Partnership business lines, shaping the segment's long-term strategy, setting goals, and driving accountability against key outcomes
  2. Lead the team in delivering high-quality insights and analytics to Revenue leadership, fielding and managing data requests across market sizing, business performance, competitive landscape, and growth opportunity assessments using internal data and third-party sources
  3. Proactively monitor business trends, KPIs, and leading indicators to identify risks and growth opportunities, translating data signals into clear, actionable recommendations for business leaders
  4. Own the strategic narrative for the segment, synthesizing complex, ambiguous problems into structured frameworks, clear points of view, and concrete recommendations on how to grow and protect the business
  5. Partner with segment leaders to design and run the operating rhythm, including business reviews, executive escalations, planning cycles, and progress reporting

Skills

Required

  • SQL
  • Python/R
  • data visualization tools

Nice to have

  • management consulting
  • investment banking
  • private equity
  • high-growth technology companies

What the JD emphasized

  • AI, automation, and tooling to improve team workflows, scale analytical capabilities, and eliminate manual, repetitive processes
  • AI tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) and identifying automation opportunities to drive efficiency and scale team impact