Senior Growth Analyst, Payment Product

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, Inc. proudly includes Affirm, PayBright, and Returnly. 
We’re looking for a driven, analytically-minded professional to join the Growth Analytics team! Growth Analytics at Affirm encompasses Product, Marketing, Operations, and Foundations. The team is responsible for the research, reporting, and experimentation vital to build outstanding consumer-facing and merchant products.  Specifically, this role is for the Payment analytics team focused on payment platform and payment user experience optimization. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, an eagerness to collaborate with different teams, curiosity to learn more every day, and patience to work through difficult problems.
​What you'll do

 
Proactively explore data and find opportunities to improve the user engagement, growth and profitability. 
 
Utilize both industry and internal trends to produce insights that influence strategy for loan payment that directly impact the company bottom-line 
 
Own payment metrics (authorization rate, cost, etc), defining meaningful measurement and building intuitive dashboards
 
Address ambiguous problems and formulate hypotheses into actionable and well-designed experiments
 
Partner cross-functionally build a rapport and be a trusted advisor to team members
 
Own end-to-end analytics workflow, including defining success, generating insights and hypotheses, performance metrics, socializing them across the organization, creating impactful dashboards and reports, and developing scalable analytics solutions and data models

What we look for

 
Passion to redefine the lending and financial industry for the better
 
2-4 years of experience in an analytically-driven role (analytics, consulting, finance, etc.); Preferably previous experience in payment processing, payment network and risk management 
 
Strong working knowledge of SQL and/or experience with Python or R  
 
Practical and theoretical knowledge of A/B testing
 
Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work cross-functionally and influence both technical and non-technical audiences
 
Ability to think creatively and critically and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and often ambiguous work environment
 
Bachelor's or Master's degree in a quantitatively rigorous subject area like statistics, math, finance, economics desired
 
Enough laziness to find a faster way to do your least favorite tasks
 
Humility and team player - you go out of your way to help teammates

Location - Remote Canada