The Operations team delivers seamless customer experiences and enables new product capabilities while ensuring operational excellence. The team owns strategy, planning, technical execution, customer service, fraud operations, process design, quality, training, and program management

Our goal is to deliver seamless support while maintaining high standards and reducing risk In this role you’ll set the customer operations strategy for a portfolio of complex, cross-functional expansion programs, lead a team of program and process managers, and be accountable for adapting the servicing model to new and differentiated products across markets In addition, you will be the leader who represents operations across international business teams providing transparency into performance and partnering across product, engineering, and operations to help drive continuous improvement in service delivery for international customers

You’ll own a portfolio that spans a multitude of international servicing landscapes — launching, testing and learning in operations, and scaling geo expansions, new product scaling, and new channel expansion — and you’ll build the standards, methods, and team that make those programs repeatable at global scale via playbooks

Own the strategy and roadmap for how Customer Operations scales to support global expansion — new products, merchants/partners, geo launches, and channels — translating ambiguous, undefined business direction into structured programs and clear operating plans

Establish and modify the team’s operational objectives, policies, procedures, and work plans; program management and service delivery via process/continuous improvement); Drive the strategy and success of large-scale, cross-area programs for operations— merchant/geo launches, automation and efficiency programs, new-product scaling — managing scope, schedule, budget, dependencies, and risk across a complex, multi-market servicing landscape

Partner in lock step with Product, Engineering, Analytics, Risk, Training, Knowledge,



and Service Delivery leads to run cross-functional discovery and scoping, coordinate planning, and oversee dependencies through the full program lifecycle

Build alignment across mid- to senior-level leaders cross-functionally; Own post-launch operational performance for the global international operations portfolio and set up rituals and roles to support global business teams with transparent performance and improvement plans across servicing and operations

Serve as a recognized subject-matter expert and thought leader on the global servicing operating model; build networks and represent Customer Operations on broader, organization-wide initiatives

Champion an analytical, data-driven culture within the team and across Product, Analytics, Engineering, and the broader business

Develop communication and change-management plans for the portfolio, and own the processes for logging and tracking risks, issues, actions, and dependencies

Represent the unique customer servicing needs of global customers at scale across core operations

We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family

Access tech, food, lifestyle, and family planning wallets for your expenses

Supportive Communities: Get involved with our employee resource groups and community groups

Remote-first Workforce: If your role is remote, you can set up shop anywhere in your home country

Health Benefits: Get a plan that fits your needs

Parental Leave: Away Days:



We offer 20 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge The ideal candidate pairs strong business acumen and judgment with the ability to lead teams, shape ambiguous problem spaces into clear operating plans, and influence senior partners across the companyA deep passion for growing international businesses and working to understand the localization needs for customer experience and being able to implement with scale and efficiency will be keyThis role requires deep expertise in the customer/merchant servicing space and a robust grounding in financial servicesStrong knowledge of how shared services operate;

experience in services, operations, and/or salesBroad, cross-disciplinary expertise and a strong understanding of how the wider organization and market operate, complemented by deep functional knowledge of customer care, fraud, and/or merchant operations (processes, systems, and key metrics)Proven ability to work on unique, poorly defined problems that lack strategic direction — evaluating intangibles, applying conceptual thinking, and creating the approach and evaluation criteriaSound judgment to make discretionary decisions with significant latitude, balancing research, creativity, and business impactExperience delivering programs across multiple geographies or markets strongly preferred; consumer lending or financial services background strongly preferred12+ years of relevant experience, including 5+ years leading teams and/or managing other managers or senior professionalsDeep program and process management expertise (PMP and/or Lean Six Sigma Black Belt a plus), with a track record of defining methods and standards not just applying themDemonstrated ability to influence and build alignment among diverse, senior stakeholders in complex or sensitive situationsExperience building and scaling global customer experience operations and working in global environments across cultures and geographiesSelf-starter with a strong sense of urgency, accountability, and results orientation, and a genuine enthusiasm for developing people and building recent capabilities #

📌 Senior Manager of Programs (Global Expansion and New Initiatives) (Quebec)
🏢 Affirm
📍 Quebec