Senior Manager, Security Risk Management - Affirm

We’re hiring a Senior Manager to lead Security Governance and the Security Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) function. This role owns program strategy, operational maturity, and stakeholder alignment for security governance, vendor risk, and third-party integration risk. The manager will drive policy and control frameworks, remediate audit findings, deliver measurable program KPIs, and grow a high-performing team that executes vendor diligence, monitoring, and governance at scale.

Our Security Governance and TPRM programs must move from tactical firefighting to predictable, measurable operations that scale with the business. This leader will set the security risk posture, tighten governance and fourth-party oversight, improve tooling and automation adoption, and ensure timely, actionable escalations so senior leadership can make the right business decisions.

What You'll Do

Program strategy & governance

• Own Security Governance: maintain and evolve security policies, standards, and control frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF, ISO 27001), including mapping to controls and compliance requirements (SOC2, PCI, applicable regulations).
• Lead program maturity planning, roadmaps, and cross-functional governance forums (e.g., security steering committee, risk council).
• Define and enforce security risk appetite and decision criteria for third-party relationships and integrations.

Third-party risk management

• Lead the Security TPRM function across vendor lifecycle: intake/onboarding, due diligence (IRQ/DDQ/SME reviews), contracting handoffs, ongoing monitoring, periodic reviews, and offboarding.
• Ensure robust fourth-party oversight, including subprocessors, and manage remediation/QA cycles driven by Internal Audit and regulators.
• Oversee high-risk vendor decisions and escalations; establish clear RACI for partnership contracts and security acceptance criteria.

Operational excellence & tooling

• Own program KPIs, dashboards, and reporting (Jira STPRM Ops, AuditBoard, Sigma/BI, MetricStream). Drive improvements in throughput, turnaround, backlog age, and remediation velocity.
• Partner with Automation/TPRM Ops to operationalize threat-modeling outputs, integration inventories, pre-integration gates, and CI/CD checks; prioritize automations that reduce manual work and surface strategic escalations.
• Implement and maintain QA processes (quarterly QA), runbooks, SOPs for ticket ownership, and evidence standards.

People & stakeholder leadership

• Build, coach, and scale the Governance and TPRM teams: hiring, performance management, career development, and team morale.
• Act as the primary security contact for Legal, Procurement, Privacy, Product, and Engineering on vendor risk and governance matters.
• Represent Security in executive forums, audit meetings, and regulatory engagements; own remediation commitments and timelines.

Audit, compliance & risk reporting

• Serve as the security liaison for Internal Audit and external assessments; ensure timely remediation of findings and demonstrable progress.
• Produce regular program health reporting for senior leadership and Board-level stakeholders.

Success metrics (examples)

• Vendors reviewed per month and % critical vendors reviewed on schedule
• Average review turnaround time and backlog age distribution
• % tickets with clear owner and SLA met
• Time to remediate Internal Audit findings and completion rate
• Implementation count of automated checks/runbooks and pre-integration gates
• Team engagement / retention and time-to-productivity for new hires

What We Look For

• 7+ years in information security, risk management, or GRC roles, with a minimum of 3 years managing teams (or equivalent leadership experience).
• Demonstrated ownership of a TPRM program or security governance program in a regulated or high-growth technology environment (fintech preferred).
• Strong knowledge of security frameworks (NIST, ISO), compliance standards (SOC2, PCI), and vendor risk processes (IRQ/DDQ/SME assessments).
• Hands-on familiarity with TPRM/GRC tooling and observability: AuditBoard (or equivalent), Jira, BI tools (Sigma/Tableau/Looker), and experience with integrations/APIs.
• Excellent stakeholder management across legal, procurement, engineering, product, and executive leadership.
• Proven experience translating audit findings into operational remediation plans and measurable outcomes.
• Strong communication skills — able to present risk to technical and non-technical audiences and to influence decisions.
• Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, or similar.
• Practical experience with threat-modeling approaches and third-party integration security (API, SSO/OAuth/SAML, TLS).
• Experience scaling automation for GRC/TPRM programs and integrating security checks into CI/CD pipelines.
• Prior experience in fintech or highly regulated industries.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Pay Grade - Q
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 which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.

Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.)

CAN base pay range per year: $198,000 - $248,000


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