Senior Product Manager

PayPal

PayPal

Product
Chicago, IL, USA
Posted on Friday, November 3, 2023
At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives.

Job Description Summary:
PayPal is committed to delivering the best experience for our global developers. Our team designs experiences and tools critical for our developers to build and go-live with PayPal’s payment integrations across all segments. The Developer Ecosystem team is part of the Core Product & Engineering organization, and responsible for PayPal’s end-to-end developer experiences – including developer onboarding, integration, and servicing experiences within small, medium, and large enterprises.

Job Description:
In this role you will be responsible for defining the next generation of Testing experience for PayPal's APIs and/or SDKs via new Tools to enable product experience for web, mobile web and native interfaces. At PayPal, we believe in the power of building developer focused products to unlock our next phase of growth in Commerce and Payments.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

  • Product Owner for next generation of API/SDK Developer Tools with the developer experience team that enable merchants to integrate and process payments via PayPal.
  • Prioritize and maintain a balance between on-going maintenance/bugs, new feature requests and a need to keep client-side integrations simple & flexible and continuously evolving with changes in technology and competitor landscape.
  • Ability to do competitive analysis to inform areas of improvement or trends that we can learn from.
  • Gain an “outside-in” perspective by speaking with a cross-section of developers and/or internal client facing teams with a goal to build a case to continuously evolve the client interfaces.
  • Provide the right level of support and direction to keep the engineering team working efficiently and aligned with the overall product strategy.
  • Participate in regular cadences (stand up’s, retrospective, planning meeting) and be engaged with the team throughout the product life cycle.
  • Work with Research and Design to define and conduct extensive user research, incorporate feedback, and execute a customer driven roadmap.
  • Engage with teams (Sales, Marketing, Professional Services) across PayPal to help Pilot and Launch enhancements / improvements with a goal towards improving adoption.


Job Requirements:

  • 3+ years of Product Management or other relevant experience managing either REST APIs, Web SDK, Server SDK.
  • Experienced managing technology focused products (SaaS, APIs, SDKs, Infrastructure, Platform) in an Agile SCRUM environment at scale.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to adapt your message to the technical level of the audience (developers, product managers and senior business leaders).
  • Have a strong degree of technical fluency that allows you to communicate with and understand your target audience (developers), translating their needs into clear product strategy and deliver on them.


Nice to have:

  • Experience managing products that are externalized via APIs and/or SDKs.
  • We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don’t hesitate to apply.


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 benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.

We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com

Who We Are:

To learn more about our culture and community visit https://about.pypl.com/who-we-are/default.aspx

PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering more than 400 million consumers and merchants in more than 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit paypal.com.

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.

As part of PayPal’s commitment to employees’ health and safety, we have established in-office Covid-19 protocols and requirements, based on expert guidance. Depending on location, this might include a Covid-19 vaccination requirement for any employee whose role requires them to work onsite. Employees may request reasonable accommodation based on a medical condition or religious belief that prevents them from being vaccinated.

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