Affirm
Senior
High-impact IC analytics role architecting the economics of Affirm's two-sided Marketplace — supply, demand, pricing, and merchant monetization
This is a senior individual-contributor analytics role owning the economic engine of Affirm's Marketplace, a two-sided consumer/merchant platform. The interview focuses on marketplace economics intuition (supply-demand, pricing, elasticity), hands-on data skills (SQL, Python, DBT, Sigma), and the ability to run experiments and loan-level profitability analyses that balance consumer and merchant value.
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What this interview tests
- Two-sided marketplace economics: supply, demand, pricing, elasticity
- Experimentation design for marketplace placements/offers
- Marketplace KPI dashboards and monitoring (engagement, LTV, merchant outcomes)
- Loan-level or unit-level profitability analysis
- SQL/Python/DBT/Sigma proficiency and ETL ownership
- Cross-functional partnership with Sales, Product, Engineering, Marketing
Common question themes
How would you balance merchant supply against consumer demand in a two-sided marketplace
Walk me through an experiment you'd design to test a new marketplace placement or merchant incentive
How would you measure incremental GMV driven by a pricing or placement change
Describe a loan-level or unit-economics profitability analysis you've done and what decision it drove
How do you use AI tools to accelerate your own analytics workflow
Tell me about a time you partnered with engineering to fix or optimize a data pipeline