Director, Business Applications
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Affirm’s Business Applications Management team is responsible for the customer and frontline team experiences in our service offerings through our one to many help properties (help centers, self service tools) and 1:1 service offerings (phone, chat, email). Our mission is to enable a World-Class Servicing Experience between Affirm Operations and its network of Customers by Designing, Developing, Implementing, and Maintaining Innovative and Intuitive Solutions that are Reliable, Scalable, and Enjoyable.
We deliver service platform strategies in close relationship with our Operational, Product Management, UX, and Engineering partners. We are champions of the customer experience, advocating for big-picture vision that is backed by data-driven insights. Our work enables Affirm to deliver a delightful service experience to our millions of customers.
This team works with partner and customer facing service teams across Affirm Ops to enable them with the tools and insights needed to most effectively and efficiently deliver service to our end user. To deliver these solutions, we go deep to understand business priorities, translate to a tooling strategy and roadmap, and work with our Product and Engineering partners to develop and deploy solutions to enable Ops teams. As Head of this function, you will lead a team of business analysts, platform administrators and developers working with operations, product management and engineering leadership across Affirm to design and deliver tools for our high-touch service teams. You will help scope, build, and bring to market innovative tools that meet the needs of our frontline teams.
What You’ll Do
Technology Strategy: Develop a business applications strategy for customer and fraud operations teams in the Affirm Ops organization. Develop an integrated roadmap for servicing infrastructure & tools, and align the direction with the Operations and Product leadership teams.
Team management: Lead a team of System Architects, Developers, Administrators and Program Managers that builds and maintains three distinct tool stacks of operational systems/tools for Affirm Operations (Customer and Fraud Ops teams). Guide the Business Applications Management team to shape the production and administration operational strategy for all Ops.
Leadership: Develop the vision, goals / OKRs, priorities and work alongside the team to accomplish them. Ensure high-quality customer service and ongoing technical skill development. Establish and execute robust prioritization operations across the Servicing Infrastructure & Tools footprint.
Stakeholder Management: Partner with Operations, Product Management and Engineering to translate customer needs into a better overall product. Build strong relationships with product and engineering teams to ensure a collaborative approach to delivering innovative tools. Ensure accountability of product teams for delivering on requirements and business team engagement for delivering on deployment goals.
Technology Programs Implementation: Work closely with the Business Applications leads to guide the enablement of the servicing environments, which is anchored around Salesforce Service Cloud for case management, optimized through custom development and system integrations. Continue to drive an efficient and effective engagement model to guide our partnership with Product and Engineering, and implement continuous improvement practices in the development model within Business Applications.
Issue Resolution & Prevention: Partner with Servicing Engineering teams to manage production incidents in real time with emphasis on timely and through issue identification and customer communication. Guide the team through resolving high-profile escalations and issues, improve the customer experience, and drive initiatives that increase their likelihood of success on our platform.
What We Look For
10+ years of enterprise systems integration, strategy consulting, or product management experience.
Experience with Salesforce Service Cloud and Service Cloud Voice, as well as other customer operations tools for Quality Assurance, Workforce Management, Fraud Investigations, and more.
Experience influencing senior executives.
Experience delivering business change initiatives and working with product development teams.
Experience operating within and leading cross-functional teams (e.g. engineering, product management, analytics, operations)
Strong executive presence and ability to influence senior stakeholders across organizational borders
Operational experience in roles such as System development, customer operations tooling, and technical implementation
Distinctive delivery mindset with drive to solve complex problems through structured root cause problem solving and ruthless prioritization, especially in areas with high levels of ambiguity
Capable of speaking to both technical and business stakeholders and users
Superior problem solving and analytical skills
Excellent relationship building, collaboration and negotiation skills
Strong communication, project management and analytical skills
USA Pacific base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT): $222,300 - $255,000 USA Sapphire base pay range (all other U.S. states): $200,000 - $230,000 Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position. #LI-Remote
About the job
Director, Business Applications
To see similar active jobs please follow this link: Remote Management jobs
Affirm’s Business Applications Management team is responsible for the customer and frontline team experiences in our service offerings through our one to many help properties (help centers, self service tools) and 1:1 service offerings (phone, chat, email). Our mission is to enable a World-Class Servicing Experience between Affirm Operations and its network of Customers by Designing, Developing, Implementing, and Maintaining Innovative and Intuitive Solutions that are Reliable, Scalable, and Enjoyable.
We deliver service platform strategies in close relationship with our Operational, Product Management, UX, and Engineering partners. We are champions of the customer experience, advocating for big-picture vision that is backed by data-driven insights. Our work enables Affirm to deliver a delightful service experience to our millions of customers.
This team works with partner and customer facing service teams across Affirm Ops to enable them with the tools and insights needed to most effectively and efficiently deliver service to our end user. To deliver these solutions, we go deep to understand business priorities, translate to a tooling strategy and roadmap, and work with our Product and Engineering partners to develop and deploy solutions to enable Ops teams. As Head of this function, you will lead a team of business analysts, platform administrators and developers working with operations, product management and engineering leadership across Affirm to design and deliver tools for our high-touch service teams. You will help scope, build, and bring to market innovative tools that meet the needs of our frontline teams.
What You’ll Do
Technology Strategy: Develop a business applications strategy for customer and fraud operations teams in the Affirm Ops organization. Develop an integrated roadmap for servicing infrastructure & tools, and align the direction with the Operations and Product leadership teams.
Team management: Lead a team of System Architects, Developers, Administrators and Program Managers that builds and maintains three distinct tool stacks of operational systems/tools for Affirm Operations (Customer and Fraud Ops teams). Guide the Business Applications Management team to shape the production and administration operational strategy for all Ops.
Leadership: Develop the vision, goals / OKRs, priorities and work alongside the team to accomplish them. Ensure high-quality customer service and ongoing technical skill development. Establish and execute robust prioritization operations across the Servicing Infrastructure & Tools footprint.
Stakeholder Management: Partner with Operations, Product Management and Engineering to translate customer needs into a better overall product. Build strong relationships with product and engineering teams to ensure a collaborative approach to delivering innovative tools. Ensure accountability of product teams for delivering on requirements and business team engagement for delivering on deployment goals.
Technology Programs Implementation: Work closely with the Business Applications leads to guide the enablement of the servicing environments, which is anchored around Salesforce Service Cloud for case management, optimized through custom development and system integrations. Continue to drive an efficient and effective engagement model to guide our partnership with Product and Engineering, and implement continuous improvement practices in the development model within Business Applications.
Issue Resolution & Prevention: Partner with Servicing Engineering teams to manage production incidents in real time with emphasis on timely and through issue identification and customer communication. Guide the team through resolving high-profile escalations and issues, improve the customer experience, and drive initiatives that increase their likelihood of success on our platform.
What We Look For
10+ years of enterprise systems integration, strategy consulting, or product management experience.
Experience with Salesforce Service Cloud and Service Cloud Voice, as well as other customer operations tools for Quality Assurance, Workforce Management, Fraud Investigations, and more.
Experience influencing senior executives.
Experience delivering business change initiatives and working with product development teams.
Experience operating within and leading cross-functional teams (e.g. engineering, product management, analytics, operations)
Strong executive presence and ability to influence senior stakeholders across organizational borders
Operational experience in roles such as System development, customer operations tooling, and technical implementation
Distinctive delivery mindset with drive to solve complex problems through structured root cause problem solving and ruthless prioritization, especially in areas with high levels of ambiguity
Capable of speaking to both technical and business stakeholders and users
Superior problem solving and analytical skills
Excellent relationship building, collaboration and negotiation skills
Strong communication, project management and analytical skills
USA Pacific base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT): $222,300 - $255,000 USA Sapphire base pay range (all other U.S. states): $200,000 - $230,000 Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position. #LI-Remote