Product Management Lead, Core platform

Product Management Lead, Core platform in San Jose at PayPal

Job Description

Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 375 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.

We are hiring a senior product manager to lead the Consumer Core Platform team. In this role, you will lead a team responsible for mobile app, onboarding, and other core platform features in support of consumer experiences.

Company Mission and Vision
Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 277 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.

About Our Team and Your Role:
In the Consumer Experiences and Platform organization, we are responsible for delivering exceptional experiences for all consumers of PayPal services. We are fierce consumer advocates, who work hard to optimize our account creation, in-app, and online experiences for account servicing to best meet our customer’s needs. While each domain team has deep knowledge and responsibility in their areas, we are also a horizontal organization, meaning that we work closely with cross-functional teams across all of PayPal, Inc to ensure we are supporting the latest and greatest products and services, legal or compliance requirements, and other business priorities. 

Our team is directly responsible for a number of experiences and platforms, including onboarding and early lifecycle, dashboard and navigation, and the core platform products and strategy.

In this role, you will lead the core platform team. The platform products your team owns drive both engineering and product delivery efficiencies across PayPal, Inc. by enabling customization of consumer experiences based on segmentation and personalization criteria, as well as deployment of experiences to the global mobile app platform without incremental release processes, and reducing duplication of effort by unifying similar flows on a single platform. You will also be responsible for leading the relationship between PayPal and the app stores on Android and iOS devices, working with the engineering release processes for the app, and leading the platform strategy across app and mobile development, and mobile performance requirements around API SLAs, caching, session management, and more.

In this role, you will be responsible for the roadmap of the Core Platform. You will be actively engaging?cross-functionally with multiple parties such as Design, Engineering, PMO, Risk, Data Services and other domain teams to deliver PayPal internal teams with the best platform tools for experience and customization, onboarding flows and other performant experiences. You will create the framework we use to deliver hyperlocal, relevant and engaging products to our users, with a/b testing platforms baked in to ensure we can measure and optimize for the best result. You will leverage machine learning and modeling to further customize and optimize our core experiences to drive better business results for our app and web customers. You will optimize platform performance and experience, create platforms which ensure data quality and consistency in our accounts, and build the best possible product for both our internal and external customers.

In your role as a Product Manager, you will:

• • Propose features, define product requirements and lead successful execution of initiatives that enable efficiencies in Consumer experiences at PayPal. This includes creating the product vision, strategy, roadmap, A/B testing, and integration strategies across account creation flows at PayPal Inc..
• • Collaborate with engineering and architecture to help determine the best technical implementation/design while balancing time-to-market needs and needs of the business.
• • Partner with cross-functional teams at PayPal and external partners to design, build, launch, and deploy new onboarding capabilities, compliance requirements, and data collection and validation tools. 
• • Define and proactively monitor key performance metrics to support and inform product decisions. Engage in problem solving with analytics to determine trends and root causes.
• • Develop an engaging product that drives activation and adoption for new users and retention and engagement for existing users 
• • Lead the discovery phases of new feature rollouts with a set of cross functional stakeholders from various business teams, engineering, and other product managers across the organization. 
• • Evaluate trade-offs amongst multiple solutions and influence roadmap for one or more service/feature areas based on technical feasibility, business timelines and customer impact. 
• • Define and analyze key performance metrics to support and inform product decisions 
• • Use A/B Testing, analytics, market research, usability studies, and competitive analysis to drive decision making 
• • Establish deep understanding of platform and technology in product area to create scalable & flexible solutions. 
• • Build trust and effective relationships with peers/cross-functional teams and external stakeholders

Job Requirements: 

• • 7+ years of product management experience, or combination of product & engineering experience. 
• • Experience building and maintaining platform products.
• • Experience integrating solutions with internal or external customers with varying requirements 
• • Ability to understand and write architecture and platform requirements 
• • Ability to translate product needs to technology and understand technology. You should be detail-oriented, unfazed by technical detail, and committed to flawless execution and high quality standards.
• • Ability to participate in technical discussions and help make technical trade-offs 
• • Excellent verbal and written communication skills. You are a collaborator, and have an ability to influence and build relationships in a matrixed organization. 
• • Ability to multitask and manage multiple projects simultaneously. 
• •
  Understanding of data driven approaches to draw insights which will influence decisions with positive business results 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• • Experience with mobile development processes
• • Knowledge of data analytics

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at paypalglobaltalentacquisition@paypal.com.

We know the confidence gap  and imposter syndrome  can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don’t hesitate to apply.

We’re a purpose-driven company whose beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We hold ourselves to our One Team Behaviors which demand that we hold the highest ethical standards, to empower an open and diverse workplace, and strive to treat everyone who is touched by our business with dignity and respect. Our employees challenge the status quo, ask questions, and find solutions. We want to break down barriers to financial empowerment. Join us as we change the way the world defines financial freedom.

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at paypalglobaltalentacquisition@paypal.com.

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