Chief of Staff Director, People

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.

The People team helps Affirmers cultivate a high-performing, inclusive organization. We focus on three core areas: attracting talent aligned to our mission, enabling growth through people and team development, and retaining employees through thoughtful experiences and rewards. We develop Affirm’s people programs and systems to create a workplace where all employees can thrive and contribute meaningfully. By investing in our people, we create a long-term advantage for the business.

The Director, Chief of Staff will directly support the Chief People Officer and serve as a trusted advisor, thought partner, and strategic operator for the People organization. They will work closely with the CPO and People leadership team to define priorities, sharpen strategy, create clear narratives, and drive execution across a broad, complex, and highly cross-functional organization.

The ideal candidate is an analytical, strategic, and self-directed operator who brings strong judgment, humility, discretion, and ownership to work that ranges from highly strategic to highly operational. The Director, Chief of Staff will help operationalize the People agenda, run organizational cadences, prepare executive-ready content, manage critical initiatives, and help the CPO and People leadership team anticipate challenges, surface insights, and connect dots across the organization.

Success in this role requires executive presence, exceptional communication skills, strong business judgment, and the ability to build deep trust with senior leaders. The right candidate will quickly develop a strong understanding of Affirm’s business, people strategy, operating model, and organizational dynamics, using that context to influence effectively, operate independently, and help the People organization move with clarity, alignment, and impact.

Serve as a thought partner and trusted advisor to the Chief People Officer. Help the CPO pressure-test priorities, evaluate tradeoffs, anticipate challenges, surface insights, and make high-quality decisions with the right context.

Shape the People organization’s strategic narrative. Partner with the CPO to articulate the team’s strategy, priorities, progress, tradeoffs, and impact in a way that is clear, compelling, and grounded in business context and organizational outcomes.

Drive clarity and execution against People organization priorities. Help partner with PLT and initiative owners to define, communicate, and advance the People team’s most important initiatives, ensuring leaders have the context, alignment, and follow-through needed to execute effectively.

Run the People organization’s operating rhythm. Manage key organizational cadences, including leadership team meetings, offsites, annual planning, business reviews, and other forums that enable effective decision-making and execution.

Prepare executive-ready content for key audiences. Develop high-quality presentations, narratives, leadership updates, and decision support for the CPO and People organization.

Act as connective tissue across the People leadership team and sub-teams. Improve information flow, surface risks and dependencies, identify decision bottlenecks, and help ensure leaders are operating with shared context, clear ownership, and aligned priorities.

Own special projects from problem definition through execution. Take on high-priority, ambiguous, confidential, or time-sensitive projects on behalf of the CPO, independently structuring the work, driving analysis, aligning stakeholders, and delivering outcomes.

Represent the CPO’s voice and priorities in cross-functional forums. Exercise sound judgment on when to make decisions, escalate issues, seek input, or drive work forward independently.

Base Pay Grade - S

Equity Grade - USA 11

Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.

Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.)

USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $255,000 - $335,000

USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $226,000 - $306,000

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.

We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:

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