Sr Product Manager

PayPal • San Jose, CA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

As Senior Product Manager, you will drive platform evolution and business initiatives within our product portfolio. You will contribute to product strategy through systems thinking, identifying where shared platform capabilities can multiply impact across teams while recognizing when custom solutions are needed. Your role demands strong execution ownership translating ambiguous requirements into shipped solutions while managing multiple work streams effectively. Your approach balances strategic thinking with pragmatic delivery, using data-driven frameworks to navigate competing priorities and make trade-off decisions. You will proactively identify risks, surface potential bottlenecks early, and maintain accountability for outcomes. Success requires technical fluency to credibly partner with engineering and product acumen to connect platform investments to business value. You will champion user needs and define meaningful metrics that demonstrate impact.

Requirements

• 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in fintech, payments, or financial services
• Measure everything. Define and track KPIs for your initiatives, ensuring investments demonstrate measurable impact of your work and how it ties to the wider business initiatives.
• Manage multiple concurrent work streams effectively, seeking guidance on prioritization trade-offs when competing demands arise.
• Contribute to platform capabilities that improve team efficiency through well-designed features and self-service solutions.
• Identify and communicate risks within your work streams, developing mitigation strategies with guidance from leadership when needed.
• Participate in product reviews, contributing insights and maintaining accountability for your deliverables.
• Contribute to AI-driven solutions within your product area, developing fluency with emerging capabilities.
• Track record of working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with startup-like agility
• Experience partnering closely with engineering teams on technical product decisions
• Demonstrated comfort with cross-functional dependencies

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

• At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset-you. That’s why we offer comprehensive, choice-based programs, to support all aspects of personal wellbeing—physical, emotional, and financial—delivering meaningful value where it matters most.
• We strive to create a flexible, balanced work culture with a holistic approach to benefits, including generous paid time off, healthcare coverage for you and your family, and resources to create financial security and support your mental health.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level