Sr Product Manager

Job Summary

This job focuses on leveraging data to derive insights that align with the product's shared vision and customer needs. It involves gathering customer experience insights to inform product requirements and analyzing research, market data, and usability studies for data-driven decision-making.

Responsibilities include monitoring product profitability and budget, leading sprint planning, daily standups, and retrospectives to ensure effective execution, and collaborating with content developers, data scientists, product designers, and user experience researchers to uncover new opportunities. This job is an individual contributor.

About the role

PayPal, Inc. seeks Sr Product Manager in Austin, TX

Duties

• Propose, review and implement product roadmaps that meet business needs across multiple teams and levels of management.
• Evaluate use cases and design A/B testing and various pilots.
• Decompose work efforts and create story narratives to drive execution and closure.
• Secure, host, and lead demos with internal and external clients.
• Complete baseline high level process mapping.

• Quantify business value against implementation and costs to serve.
• Perform bench marketing against other brands and technology.
• Participate in technical discussions and help make technical trade-offs for seamless product delivery.
• Translate product needs to technology specification and roadmaps.
• Present recommendations to senior leaders.

Interface and build relations at all levels, collaborating, building consensus, delivering, and driving technical decisions with various sized customer stakeholder groups. Partial telecommuting permitted from within a commutable distance.

Minimum Requirements

Master's degree, or foreign equivalent, in Business Administration, Computer and Information Technology, or a closely related field plus five years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

Special Skill Requirements

• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum or Kanban) and tools such as JIRA or Confluence for product lifecycle management, backlog prioritization, and cross-functional delivery (5 years).
• Experience with computer science fundamentals, APIs, microservices, and data architecture, along with experience across the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), including testing, release, and deployment (5 years).
• Experience in SQL, data visualization tools for quantitative analysis, and performance reporting (5 years).
• Experience with cloud platform concepts, API integrations, large-scale infrastructure migrations, data pipeline orchestration, and CI/CD practices (5 years).
• Experience with core financial services and platforms (5 years).
• Experience in root-cause analysis and hypothesis-driven problem solving (5 years).
• Experience in ROI analysis, cost-benefit modeling, and business case development (5 years).
• Experience translating complex problem spaces into clear requirements, data-driven analyses, and executive-ready strategic narratives (5 years).
• Experience driving cross-functional alignment and influencing stakeholders within complex initiatives (5 years)
• Experience defining product vision and roadmap strategy aligned to company-level objectives and measurable business outcomes (1 year)
• Experience defining product success metrics and leading structured experimentation to drive measurable customer and business impact (1 year)
• Experience in user journey mapping, usability testing, market research, wireframing, and using Design Thinking principles (1 year).
• Experience with AI product development and research, including NLP, model training, and supervised and unsupervised learning (1 year).
• EOE, including disability/vets.

Pay and benefits

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:

Primary Location | Pay Range

Austin, TX| Salary: $143,922.00-221,500.00 per annum. 40 hours per week; M-F, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Additional compensation for this role may include an annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation, as applicable.

Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Subsidiary: PayPal

Travel Percent: 0

PayPal does not charge candidates any fees for courses, applications, resume reviews, interviews, background checks, or onboarding. When making an application directly, we will never ask you to share passwords, one-time passcodes (OTP), or verification codes. Any such request is a red flag and likely part of a scam. All communication regarding your application will come from official PayPal email domains. If you suspect fraudulent activity, please report it immediately.

For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

Our 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.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Belonging at PayPal

Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.

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