Licensing Manager

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.

The Licensing team enables Affirm's ability to operate and scale in regulated markets globally. The team manages Affirm's licensing portfolio, regulatory relationships, and licensing strategy across the U.S. and international markets while partnering closely with Legal, Compliance, Product, and business leaders to support growth and expansion.

This role will report to the Director, Global Licensing and Regulatory Programs.

• Support new product & service launches related to state licensing and reporting including money transmission, servicing/collections, lending, international expansion, etc.

• Work cross-functionally with legal, public affairs, compliance, finance, tax to meet regulatory licensing and reporting obligations

• Maintain the central repository for licensing and reporting obligations for new license types including workflows, regulatory guidance, etc.

• Collaborate with Licensing team to interpret, prepare, and submit state licensing annual reports, MSB call reports, and other regulatory obligations

• Ensure timely regulatory filings, call out any licensing issues, supervise ongoing regulatory obligations in licensing management tool

• Lead ongoing preparation of renewal applications and other forms to be filed in various licensing jurisdictions

• Collaborate on NMLS licensing, reporting, and other regulatory filings

• Analyze and develop new processes, leveraging AI, to increase efficiency within the licensing program

• Assist Department in the research and build of licensing requirements into the licensing management tool

• Coordinate with senior leadership to fulfill ongoing state licensing requirements

• Partner with team on any licensing projects and initiatives

What We Look For

• 5 years of licensing/compliance/regulatory experience ideally related to consumer financial services

• Outstanding time management, administrative, and organizational skills, including the ability to balance multiple priorities and overlapping projects

• Proven project management, critical thinking, and analytical skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Humility, integrity, and a desire to be part of a small but strong, supportive team

• Inquisitive, eager to learn, and a willingness to take ownership of projects

• Highly focused, able to make independent decisions and work with limited supervision while excelling in a fast-paced environment

• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where priorities shift and ambiguity is part of the landscape

Pay Grade - L Equity Grade - 6

Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure