Senior Product Manager, Developer Tools & Platform
About The Position
PayPal's Developer Experience team builds the APIs, tools, and infrastructure that let developers put PayPal to work anywhere they build. As commerce moves into AI coding assistants and agentic platforms, we make PayPal the easiest way to move money on any surface. We're hiring a senior/lead Technical PM with a strong engineering background to own Developer Tools & Platform — the technical foundation for all of DevEx. You'll own the APIs and extensibility contract that every client surface (CLI, IDE extensions, MCP servers, Developer Dashboard) builds on, so surfaces ship on existing API capability without custom backend work.
Requirements
- 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Familiarity with REST APIs is required. You can read code, reason about API design and versioning, and hold your own in architecture and design discussions.
- Experience owning an API, platform, or developer-facing service, including backward compatibility and release policy.
- Deep empathy for developers so you understand how they evaluate, adopt, and stick with tools, and you obsess over removing friction from that journey.
- Excellent communication so you can move fluidly between a technical spec, a partner-team conversation, and an executive readout without losing the thread.
- A bias for shipping because you'd rather ship a sharp v1 and learn than debate a perfect plan.
Nice To Haves
- A senior or lead-level Technical Product Manager profile with a strong engineering background.
- Ecosystem instincts with the judgment to see which capability, surface, or investment unlocks the most value next, and the clarity to make the case for it.
Responsibilities
- Uses data to build insights on product or platform requirements consistent with the shared vision for the product.
- Gathers insights from the customer experience and customer needs to input to product requirements
- Analyzes research, market analysis and usability studies, research and market analysis to support data-driven decision making
- Monitors product profitability measures, including budget.
- Lead sprint planning, daily standups and retrospectives to drive execution. Interfaces with product and technology leadership as needed.
- Partners with content developers, data scientists, product designers and user experience researchers to identify new opportunities.
Benefits
- generous paid time off
- healthcare coverage for you and your family
- resources to create financial security
- support your mental health
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
