Hiring: Chief of Staff Director, Product Company: Affirm Location: San Diego, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 11:30:09 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : REST About the job Experience: •10+ years in roles that built product credibility and strategic-narrative chops: strategy with deep product partnership, or a prior CoS role to a senior product or engineering executive at a high-growth tech company Required Skills: •The end goal is a healthy Product org with pillar leads running independently at high quality, decisions made with less latency, and a clearer story about where Product is going, and why. •Design and run the product leadership team’s rhythms (staff meetings, product reviews, all-teams, offsites): agenda architecture, pre-reads, decision capture, follow-through •Co-own the people rhythms with the HRBP across hiring, calibrations, performance, and talent reviews. Surface emergent structural risks (broken hiring funnels, attrition signals, single points of failure) with proactive solutions •Partners with Technology Operations function to define and improve processes for roadmap planning, driving prioritization decisions, setting annual OKRs and tracking progress to goals throughout the year •Own headcount planning and budget management alongside the Finance and HR Business Partners: annual planning, quarterly reforecasts, hire-prioritization tradeoffs •Curate the external product narrative (all-hands, written updates, major external talks): operate as a speechwriter, partnering with PR, comms, and brand •Prepare executive briefings and leadership communications, and reduce decision latency across the Product leadership team •Run a recurring org health pulse (engagement scores, regrettable attrition, leveling drift, manager effectiveness), escalating early signals before they become structural problems Qualifications: •Drive AI retooling and enablement, including running internal AI masterclasses for leadership and natively embedding AI-enabled processes across the function Compensation: •$255,000 - $335,000 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!