Analyst II, Strategic Insights

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.

We’re looking for intelligent, driven professionals to join our Key & Enterprise Analytics team. This client-facing team is responsible for supporting and growing our largest merchants with our Client Success teams, supporting Sales teams in creating business cases, and creating scalable, reporting and analyses. 

The ideal candidate will have strong analytical and problem solving skills, and have the ability to craft comprehensive narratives for both internal and external audiences of all levels. In addition to analytical rigor, the ideal candidate has strong interpersonal skills to work within the organization and with clients to drive forward recommendations. 

What You'll Do

Optimize decisions and execution with analyses

• Partner with our Client Success, Sales, and Partnerships teams as the data SME for respective Revenue segments

• Create business cases, insights, and dashboards as well as handle experiments to engage Affirm’s external merchant base; demonstrating Affirm’s value proposition and product performance

• Create internal analyses to assess Revenue performance, drive recommendations, and inform critical decisions; using insights to serve segment strategy and execution

Scale impact

• Standardize common use cases, provide the analytics infrastructure, and automate analyses and dashboards to scale decisions and execution within Revenue and with top external merchants

Own comprehensive analytics solution

• Define KPIs, performance benchmarks, and methodologies, including identifying and working with unstructured and structured data sources (in-house and third-party) to enable solutions and generate actionable insights

• Provide project and analytics guidance to a cross-functional team, acting as the analytics point of contact 

• Propose, monitor, and contextualize experiment design and execution  to drive optimizations of Affirm’s GTM efforts, empirically quantify the value of Affirm to our prospective merchants, and upsell enhanced offers to existing merchants

What We Look For

• Passion and drive to disrupt both the retail and lending industry for the better  

• A desire to use data to drive business optimizations and enough curiosity to dig in deep to find the right data to drive impact

• 3+ years of experience in an analytically-driven role (consulting, finance, analytics, etc.). This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field

• Track record of successfully driving projects from end to end (from building strategy to implementation 

• Strong working knowledge of SQL, data visualization tools (e.g. Sigma, Looker, Tableau). Basic understanding or a demonstrated aptitude to learn Python is a plus

• Ability to create structure in ambiguous situations, such as aligning stakeholders, or choosing the most impactful data to drive decisions

• Enough laziness to find a faster way to do your least favorite tasks

• Humility and a team player - you go out of your way to help teammates

Base Pay Grade - I

Equity Grade - 4

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: $115,000 - $155,000         

USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $102,000 - $142,000        

#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 -