Director, Customer Operations Vendor Strategy & Execution

<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p></div><p>We're looking for a senior leader to join the Affirm Global Operations team as the&nbsp;<strong>Director, Vendor Strategy &amp; Operations</strong> to lead Affirm's global BPO and vendor operations program and serve as a true partner in reinventing how we serve customers at scale across our large global vendor network. This leader owns the customer operations vendor strategy, performance, and outcomes of our global servicing network vendor program — customer experience, compliance, operational excellence, resiliency, and cost-to-serve — across a rapidly growing and complex business. The role will be taking ownership and providing programmatic oversight of the vendor program for operations.</p> <p>This is a senior leadership role for someone who thinks like an owner, not an administrator. The ideal candidate pairs deep expertise in fintech and financial-services customer operations and vendor programs with genuine fluency in applying AI and human call center culture to reinvent servicing across the vendor network. They are relentlessly customer-centric, dive deep into both the customer and front-line vendor agent experience, and know how to build a winning combination of culture and data-driven operations across vendors and our internal team. This role is scoped to grow: the right leader will expand into broader operational scope as our transformation matures and play a key leadership role in shaping the future of Affirm Operations and customer centric company culture.</p> <p>You'll lead a team of Vendor Managers and In-Country Vendor Managers, partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders, and shape the future of Affirm's global servicing network.</p> <p><strong>What You'll Do</strong></p> <p><em>Strategy, Governance &amp; Reinvention</em></p> <ul> <li>Define and execute the long-term strategy for Affirm's global customer operations vendor network, balancing customer experience, operational efficiency, resiliency, compliance, and business continuity across all global vendors.</li> <li>Reinvent how we resolve customer issues and deliver experience across the vendor network, treating the BPO vendor network as an innovation hub rather than a cost center.</li> <li>Establish governance frameworks, performance standards, and accountability mechanisms across the global vendor ecosystem.</li> <li>Lead executive-level vendor governance forums, including Quarterly Business Reviews, strategic planning, and escalation management.</li> <li>Partner with Financial Partnerships on vendor selection, expansion, remediation, and network design, evaluating capabilities, geographic footprint, and concentration risk to inform future-state decisions.</li> </ul> <p><em>AI &amp; Operational Innovation</em></p> <ul> <li>Partner deeply across product, engineering and operations teams to deploy agent and customer facing AI and automation across servicing workflows within the vendor network — agent assist, quality, forecasting, and customer resolution — to reinvent cost-to-serve and elevate vendor agent and customer experience.</li> <li>Bring an experimentation mindset, using AI in everyday problem-solving to reimagine the vendor operating model and program, not just optimize the current one.</li> </ul> <p><em>Performance &amp; Operational Excellence</em></p> <ul> <li>Own overall vendor network performance across servicing functions, including CSAT, SLA, compliance, QA, productivity, and efficiency outcomes.</li> <li>Build mechanisms for vendor performance management, escalation handling, and vendor accountability, and drive systemic improvements across vendors and functional PODs.</li> <li>Lead recovery efforts for high-risk or underperforming vendor relationships.</li> <li>Drive target cost optimization programs across all global vendors.</li> </ul> <p><em>Analytics &amp; Decision Enablement</em></p> <ul> <li>Partner with Analytics to define vendor reporting requirements, scorecards, and operational health metrics.</li> <li>Translate operational trends into actionable recommendations for senior leadership, ensuring decisions are grounded in data and measurable outcomes.</li> </ul> <p><em>Cross-Functional Leadership</em></p> <ul> <li>Build a global "one team" mentality that treats the vendor network as strategic partners rather