Analytics Lead, Full Stack
Remote · USD 145,000-205,000 / year · 5+ years experience · Remote · Posted Sep 23, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
- Salary
- USD 145,000-205,000 / year · Base salary
About the role
- Affirm is seeking an Analytics Lead, Full Stack to join the Growth Analytics International team.
- This role is instrumental in establishing the operational analytics framework for new international market launches, beginning with Australia and expanding globally.
- The position takes an end-to-end business analytics perspective, partnering across the organization to develop recommendations and solutions supporting growth and profitability.
Responsibilities
- Establish and evolve the operational analytics framework for new international markets, ensuring scalable measurement, reporting, and decision-making capabilities.
- Operate with a business owner mindset by proactively identifying opportunities through analysis and product sense to enhance user experience, growth, and profitability.
- Own business problems from end to end by translating analytical insights into recommendations and optimization strategies.
- Take ownership of the end-to-end analytics process: define success metrics, generate insights and hypotheses, track performance, and create intuitive dashboards and reports.
- Develop scalable analytics solutions and data models.
- Tackle ambiguous problems by identifying core hypotheses and designing actionable experiments to validate product-market fit and economic viability.
- Translate analytical findings into clear and compelling narratives and business cases for leadership to inform decision-making.
- Spearhead weekly cross-functional metric reviews, collaborating with partners to conduct deep dives into significant metric shifts and suggest actionable steps.
- Partner effectively across Product, Risk, Finance, Commercial, and Operations to align strategies and execute against business objectives.
- Mentor and guide junior analysts to deliver high-impact work that drives business results.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of the consumer lending and credit industry, including lending economics, portfolio performance, and credit metrics.
- Demonstrated ability to balance growth objectives with profitability and develop data-driven growth strategies.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a quantitatively rigorous subject area such as statistics, mathematics, finance, or economics.
- 5+ years of proven success in a cross-functional analytical role.
- Practical and theoretical knowledge of A/B testing.
- Experience with SQL and performing statistical analysis using Python.
- Experience simultaneously balancing multiple workstreams and prioritizing an analytics roadmap.
- Demonstrated curiosity and a growth mindset, with hands-on experience using AI-powered tools such as Cursor, Claude, or similar assistants.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Previous experience mentoring and guiding junior analysts.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience supporting international lending markets, particularly Europe and/or APAC
Benefits
- Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending
- 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental, and vision for employees and dependents
- Equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc.
- Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) to buy Affirm stock at a discount
- Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars
Workplace
- Remote Canada or Remote UK location.
- Remote-first with flexibility built in.
Skills
- SQL
- Python
- A/B Testing
- Cursor
- Claude
- Statistical Analysis
