Senior Manager, Policy & Communications Campaigns

Requirements

• Campaign mindset: You think in arcs rather than announcements, built around the forces that actually shape the public conversation, and you know it’s landing when others start making the argument without you.
• Media relationships and craft: 12+ years in communications, with real relationships across policy, business, and tech media, and a track record running complicated press strategies end to end, including complex or sticky situations.
• Policy communications experience: You’ve run communications on policy issues, whether in advocacy, regulatory affairs, a political campaign, or a public affairs practice. You understand how an issue actually gets decided, who moves it, and how long it takes.
• A connector: You keep relationships across the worlds you work in and put people together because it’s useful to them, not only when it serves you.
• Proactive instinct: A bias for creating the story rather than chasing it, an eye for using moments others create, and the tenacity to stay with a good idea past the first no.
• Appetite for a complicated subject: You don’t need a credit background. You need to get deep on underwriting, disclosure, and the credit system, and then explain it in plain language.
• Sharp, persuasive writing: The ability to build an argument that carries, clear, accurate, and convincing to someone who starts out skeptical.
• Sound judgment: Steadiness in high-stakes, high-visibility moments, and the discipline to act quickly without putting trust at risk.
• Collaborative partnership: Strong working relationships across Comms, Brand, Public Affairs, Legal, and Marketing, and the desire to make other people’s work better and not only your own.
• Belief that transparency is an advantage: You think clarity and accountability are brand advantages, not compliance requirements.

Preferred

• Campaign mindset: You think in arcs rather than announcements, built around the forces that actually shape the public conversation, and you know it’s landing when others start making the argument without you.
• Media relationships and craft: 12+ years in communications, with real relationships across policy, business, and tech media, and a track record running complicated press strategies end to end, including complex or sticky situations.
• Policy communications experience: You’ve run communications on policy issues, whether in advocacy, regulatory affairs, a political campaign, or a public affairs practice. You understand how an issue actually gets decided, who moves it, and how long it takes.
• A connector: You keep relationships across the worlds you work in and put people together because it’s useful to them, not only when it serves you.
• Proactive instinct: A bias for creating the story rather than chasing it, an eye for using moments others create, and the tenacity to stay with a good idea past the first no.
• Appetite for a complicated subject: You don’t need a credit background. You need to get deep on underwriting, disclosure, and the credit system, and then explain it in plain language.
• Sharp, persuasive writing: The ability to build an argument that carries, clear, accurate, and convincing to someone who starts out skeptical.
• Sound judgment: Steadiness in high-stakes, high-visibility moments, and the discipline to act quickly without putting trust at risk.
• Collaborative partnership: Strong working relationships across Comms, Brand, Public Affairs, Legal, and Marketing, and the desire to make other people’s work better and not only your own.
• Belief that transparency is an advantage: You think clarity and accountability are brand advantages, not compliance requirements.

Benefits

• Health coverage at no cost: We cover 100% of premiums for employees and their dependents.
• Spending stipends: Monthly stipends support your tech setup, and the ability to choose health and wellness options that are right for you.
• Time off to recharge: Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars help you rest when you need to.
• Own a piece of what you build: Our employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) lets you buy Affirm stock at a discount.