Description
PayPal Ads is building a commerce-centric advertising platform connecting PayPal, Venmo, and Honey audiences with advertisers, merchants, publishers, and technology partners. We are seeking a Lead Technical Product Manager to lead partner integrations that launch securely, reliably, and at scale.
You will define reusable services, APIs, data contracts, measurement capabilities, launch controls, and operational standards across PayPal Ads surfaces, including Onsite, Offsite, Storefront, Curated, Offers, and PayPal Ads Manager. Your work will accelerate launches, improve partner and advertiser experiences, protect consumer data, and grow measurable advertising revenue.
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.
- Partners with content strategists, data scientists, product designers and user experience researchers.
Requirements:
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant product management experience and a Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
- Demonstrated ownership of a technical platform or infrastructure product , APIs, data platforms, or distributed services , not only customer-facing features.
- The ability to work credibly with engineers on system design and trade-offs, and to write requirements precise enough to build from.
- Experience building high-growth B2C or consumer products with a customer-focused mindset.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to write technical product requirement documents and to make technical trade-offs legible to commercial and executive audiences.
Nice to Have:
- Direct prior experience in Ads, eCommerce, FinTech, and/or banking ecosystems.
- Strong data literacy , comfortable defining metrics, interrogating large datasets, and designing experiments and incrementality tests.
- Proven success shipping in ambiguity, on a new business line, with multiple senior stakeholders and a bias toward speed.
What Success Looks Like:
- Reduced partner integration and launch lead time.
- Increased number and quality of repeatable partner integrations across Ads surfaces.
- Improved adoption, availability, latency, reliability, and observability of partner-facing services.
- Complete, auditable enforcement of consent, data minimization, and regional requirements.
- Improved measurement coverage, attribution quality, and experiment/incrementality readiness.
- Positive contribution to advertising revenue, partner economics, and operating margin.
- Fewer bespoke integrations through standardized APIs, event schemas, configuration, and launch controls.
Salary: The base pay for this role will depend on where you work and the relevant experience and expertise you bring. The expected range of pay for this role by location is: San Jose, California: ($196,500.00 - $291,500.00 Annually) Chicago, Illinois: ($178,500.00 - $265,100.00 Annually)