Senior Accounts Management Manager

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most.

About the Team:

The Account Management team at Affirm is focused on building and growing long-term partnerships with our merchant partners, helping them maximize the value of their relationship with Affirm while driving mutual business growth. This team also serves as a strategic bridge across Analytics, Product, Marketing, Credit, and Technical teams, advocating for merchants and helping shape solutions that drive successful outcomes for both our partners and Affirm.

About the Role:

Affirm is committed to building lasting partnerships with merchants for long term growth and ongoing revenue generation. As a Key Account Manager, you will join a growing team driving value and growth with large strategic merchants. This is a high-profile, customer-facing role requiring outstanding results-oriented, relationship and program management skills.

This role oversees a portfolio of Affirm’s strategic accounts with the goal of driving ambitious results across the business. Success in this role entails delivering strong results, collaborating across different teams and levels with key stakeholders, strong analytical skills and excellent executive presence including written and verbal communications.

What You'll Do:

Act as SEM and team lead across omni-retail for best practices on managing complex accounts, driving outcomes and building relationships

You will oversee a large portfolio of key strategic accounts and will be responsible for developing and driving strategic initiatives including complex contract negotiation, pricing and expansion opportunities to drive revenue and General Merchandise Volume (GMV).

You will lead and execute sophisticated account plans that include financing optimizations, executive relationship engagement, and marketing strategies, often against ambitious timelines

You will analyze partner performance and recommend programs to increase product adoption, grow up-funnel awareness and visibility, and sell into expansion opportunities.

You will orchestrate cross-functional teams across our Product, Technical, Credit, Analytics, Marketing, and Risk teams to execute partnership initiatives and drive business results.

Manage customer health to ensure overall customer satisfaction and business results

Drive customer advocacy and critical issues by collaborating with development, product management, and support teams to improve the Affirm offering for our merchants

What We Look For:

Bachelor’s degree with 7-10 years of B2B client-facing experience in a high-tech environment and evidence of account growth/impact

Experience negotiating and closing large, complex commercial contracts for F100 companies

Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to give compelling presentations

Experience in leading cross-functional projects with a high attention to detail

Ability to build and manage productive internal and external relationships and influence towards outcomes; outstanding executive presence

Excellent analytical abilities to review merchant performance and report on the impact of specific programs to internal and external stakeholders

Knowledge of retail, consumer finance offerings, integrated software solutions, and e-commerce preferred

Comfortable using Salesforce and standard BI tools

Comfortable with travel 10% - 20% of the time