# Lead Product Manager

**Company**: PayPal
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $196,500.00 - $291,500.00 Annually
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

At PayPal, real-time decision-making powers customer protection and global commerce. Our Risk Decisioning Platform drives fraud, credit, and compliance decisions, processing massive signal volumes in milliseconds.

We're looking for a Lead Product Manager to own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for a core platform pillar. You'll work backwards from measurable outcomes , loss reduction, CX, efficiency, and revenue , translating them into grounded specifications.

**Essential Responsibilities:**

- Drives product strategy with cross-functional stakeholders consistent with the shared vision for the product or enabling platform.

- Plans and implements the architectural roadmap that balances innovative design and technical implementation, while balancing regulatory requirements, time-to-market, meeting customer needs and product profitability.

- Assesses the customer experience and customer needs in product requirements and decision making.

- Sets up data gathering mechanisms relative to the metrics that inform the success of products including usability studies, research and market analysis.

- Leads workstreams to include analytics, customer discovery, market research and competitive analysis to drive data-driven decision-making.

- Oversees product profitability measures, including budget.

- Plans operational mechanisms that drive execution and accountability including Product Reviews, Operating Reviews, and Business Reviews.

- Partners with content strategists, data scientists, product designers and user experience researchers.

- Maximizes efficiency in a constantly evolving environment where the process is fluid and creative solutions are the standard.

**Minimum Qualifications:**

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

**Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications :**

- Experience building or managing products in the decisioning, recommendation engine, or real-time scoring space (e.g., fraud scoring, credit underwriting, personalization platforms).

- Familiarity with feature stores, real-time inference pipelines, rule engines, or A/B experimentation frameworks.

- Track record of driving platform adoption across multiple internal customer teams.

- Strong data intuition: ability to define and interpret platform metrics, run analyses, and translate findings into product decisions.

- Experience with agile delivery at scale, including cross-team dependency management and milestone-driven roadmap execution.

**Benefits:** At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. We offer comprehensive, choice-based programs, to support all aspects of personal wellbeing,physical, emotional, and financial,delivering meaningful value where it matters most.

## Skills

### Required
- Risk Decisioning Platform
- fraud
- credit
- compliance
- product strategy
- architectural roadmap
- data gathering
- analytics
- customer discovery
- market research

### Nice to have
- feature stores
- real-time inference pipelines
- rule engines
- A/B experimentation frameworks
- agile delivery
- cross-team dependency management

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