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Affirm

Senior

Lead fraud monitoring, escalations, and detection strategy as Affirm scales internationally

This posting (titled 'Analytics Manager, Full Stack' but describing a Fraud Strategy & Analytics role) is for someone to lead fraud monitoring and detection efforts, own fraud escalations, and partner with ML/Product/Engineering/Ops to build fraud decisioning systems as Affirm expands internationally. The interview focuses on SQL/Python-driven fraud analytics, cross-functional strategy communication, and coaching junior analysts — not software engineering.

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What this interview tests

  • Fraud monitoring and detection strategy design
  • SQL/Python-based loss-driver and fraud-trend analysis
  • Escalation response under time pressure (fraud rings, spikes)
  • Cross-functional communication to technical and executive audiences
  • Coaching/mentoring junior analytics team members

Common question themes

Walk me through how you'd investigate and respond to a sudden fraud ring

Describe a loss-driver analysis you ran in SQL or Python and what you did with the finding

How do you balance fraud loss reduction against false-positive/review-volume cost

Tell me about reporting a fraud trend to senior management — how did you frame it

Describe mentoring a junior team member through a fraud investigation

How do you prioritize when multiple urgent fraud escalations hit at once

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