Affirm - Chief of Staff Director, People

• 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. • Serve as a thought partner and trusted advisor to the Chief People Officer. • 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. • Shape the People organization’s strategic narrative. • 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. • Drive clarity and execution against People organization priorities. • 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. • Run the People organization’s operating rhythm. • Prepare executive-ready content for key audiences. Develop high-quality presentations, narratives, leadership updates, and decision support for the CPO and People organization. • Prepare executive-ready content for key audiences. • 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. • Act as connective tissue across the People leadership team and sub-teams. • 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. • Own special projects from problem definition through execution. • 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. • Represent the CPO’s voice and priorities in cross-functional forums. • What We Look For • What We Look For • 10+ years of experience in business management, HR/People strategy, Chief of Staff, or related roles, preferably in high-growth technology, fintech, or other complex operating environments. • Demonstrated understanding of how People organizations operate, including the core functions within a People team, the responsibilities and priorities of those functions, and how they work together to support the business and employee experience. • Experience operating as a strategic partner, trusted advisor, or thought partner to executive leadership, ideally supporting a Chief People Officer or another senior enterprise leader. • Exceptional storytelling and synthesis skills, with the ability to turn complex, cross-functional inputs into clear narratives, executive-ready materials, and compelling communications. • Highly self-directed, with strong judgment, discretion, and ownership; able to operate independently in a senior executive environment, handle sensitive matters, and know when to drive forward, seek input, or escalate. • Strong structured problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to break down ambiguous issues into clear options, tradeoffs, and recommendations. • Excellent communication skills, the ability to influence without formal authority, and to convey complex ideas succinctly. • Strong operational discipline, with a track record of managing complex cross-functional workstreams from strategy through execution. • Strong business acumen, with the ability to connect People priorities to Affirm’s business, operating model, strategic priorities, and organizational needs. • A proven ability to use AI tools to raise the quality, depth, and impact of the work. This includes synthesizing large, cross-functional inputs, pressure-testing analysis, and generating executive-ready materials, paired with the judgment to know when to rely on AI and when not to. • 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 - $335,000USA 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.#LI-Remote • 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: • Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents • Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses • Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge • ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount • We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process. • [For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. • By clicking "Submit Application," you acknowledge that you have read Affirm's Global Candidate Privacy Notice and hereby freely and unambiguously give informed consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of your personal information as described therein.