**Who this is for** An experienced compliance professional looking to lead fair lending oversight within a dynamic fintech environment. **Key highlights** You
Work type: remote
Location: Remote US
Salary: $130,000 – $170,000/yr
Type: Full-time
**Who this is for** An experienced compliance professional looking to lead fair lending oversight within a dynamic fintech environment. **Key highlights** You will serve as the primary compliance lead for Affirm’s Fair Lending Program, collaborating with cross-functional teams like machine learning and credit to ensure regulatory alignment and mitigate risk across the entire product lifecycle. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Have 5+ years of experience in compliance, audit, or regulatory roles, specifically with Fair and Responsible Lending. - Possess a deep understanding of Fair Lending Compliance Management Systems and regulatory frameworks like ECOA/Reg B. - Can successfully partner with technical teams to evaluate and mitigate risk in complex decision-making models. - Are an expert communicator capable of distilling complex regulatory requirements into actionable business solutions.
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.
About the Legal, Compliance, and Public Affairs team
The Legal, Compliance, and Public Affairs team is a group of dedicated professionals committed to helping Affirm scale, innovate, and provide outstanding products for consumers, merchants, and key partners. We combine legal, compliance, and policy expertise to guide growth, shape products, and build trust across our ecosystem. Our work spans multiple professional disciplines and provides the foundation for Affirm’s mission to deliver honest financial products.
Affirm’s Compliance team designs and implements a compliance program that enables Affirm to proactively adhere to regulatory requirements while also identifying and addressing potential regulatory issues that may arise. Compliance program activities include advisory, guidance & training, independent testing & monitoring, reporting, escalation, and oversight. As the second line of defense, compliance proactively partners with the business to support new products, markets, and initiatives, change management, issue identification, and remediation plans, assessment and monitoring of third parties, and provides trends and data to enable informed decision making, strengthen controls or provide for better treatment of consumers.
Affirm is seeking a Compliance Lead who will support the company’s Fair Lending Program. This position plays a fundamental role by delivering key results and providing subject matter expertise on regulatory requirements. In this capacity, the Compliance Lead will collaborate with Legal, Product, Credit, Applied Machine Learning, Engineering and senior leadership to identify and assess fair lending risk within applicable requirements, and provide guidance to mitigate risk. Remotely, the role will report to the Director of Fair Lending and will work cross-functionally with other teams.
What You’ll Do
USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $130,000 - $170,000
USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $115,000 - $155,000
Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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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:
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