Sr Lead Product Manager
About The Position
PayPal is seeking a product leader to build intuitive, scalable developer experiences that help merchants integrate PayPal Pay Later into their shopping experiences. The role owns how merchants discover, evaluate, integrate, and launch PayPal Buy Now, Pay Later offerings across standard APIs and SDKs, third-party platforms, and payment service providers. It also develops patterns, options, developer guides, and workflows that large merchants can use and customize to embed Pay Later. The product leader combines product strategy and technical depth, working with technical, product, and strategy teams across PayPal. The role drives product strategy with cross-functional stakeholders and plans the architectural roadmap, balancing innovation and technical implementation with regulatory requirements, time to market, customer needs, and profitability. It assesses customer experience and needs, establishes data-gathering mechanisms to measure product success, and leads analytics, customer discovery, research, and competitive analysis. The position oversees product profitability measures, including budget, and establishes operational mechanisms that promote execution and accountability. It partners with content strategists, data scientists, product designers, and user experience researchers, and works effectively in an evolving environment.
Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Strong combination of technical and product acumen.
- Demonstrable experience in SDK and API development.
- Proven ability to use artificial intelligence to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and scalability of product development and delivery.
- Self-directed and adaptable, able to work independently, learn quickly, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
Nice To Haves
- Experience developing, launching, and scaling Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) products.
Responsibilities
- Drive product strategy with cross-functional stakeholders, consistent with the shared vision for the product or enabling platform.
- Plan and implement an architectural roadmap balancing innovative design, technical implementation, regulatory requirements, time to market, customer needs, and profitability.
- Assess customer experience and needs in product requirements and decision-making.
- Establish data-gathering mechanisms and product success metrics, including usability studies, research, and market analysis.
- Lead analytics, customer discovery, market research, and competitive analysis to support data-driven decisions.
- Oversee product profitability measures, including budget.
- Plan operational mechanisms that drive execution and accountability, including Product Reviews, Operating Reviews, and Business Reviews.
- Interface with product and technology leadership as needed.
- Partner with content strategists, data scientists, product designers, and user experience researchers.
- Build developer experiences, integration patterns, options, guides, and workflows for PayPal Pay Later across APIs, SDKs, third-party platforms, and PSPs.
Benefits
- Generous paid time off.
- Healthcare coverage for the employee and family.
- Resources to support physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing, financial security, and mental health.
- Annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation, as applicable.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
