Sr Product Manager

At PayPal, this Sr Product Manager role blends product strategy with hands-on, data-led execution. You will help shape roadmaps, run experiments, and partner across teams to deliver technical and business outcomes aligned to customer needs and the product vision. Based in Austin, TX on a hybrid schedule, you will also have the chance to influence product decisions across multiple stakeholder groups while monitoring profitability and budget impact.

What you will do

• Propose, review, and implement product roadmaps that address business needs across multiple teams and leadership levels.
• Evaluate use cases and design A/B tests, pilots, and other experimentation approaches.
• Break down work into execution-ready plans, including story narratives to drive delivery and closure.
• Secure, host, and lead demos with internal and external clients.
• Complete baseline high-level process mapping to clarify how work and value flow.
• Quantify business value against implementation effort and costs to serve.
• Perform bench marketing against other brands and technologies.
• Participate in technical discussions and help make technical trade-offs for seamless product delivery.
• Translate product needs into technology specifications and roadmap plans.
• Present recommendations to senior leaders and align on measurable outcomes.
• Interface with stakeholders at all levels, building consensus and driving technical decisions across varied customer groups.
• Lead sprint planning, daily standups, and retrospectives to maintain effective execution.
• Gather customer experience insights to define product requirements and guide product discovery.
• Analyze research, market data, and usability studies to support data-driven decision-making.
• Monitor product profitability and budget performance.
• Collaborate with content developers, data scientists, product designers, and user experience researchers to uncover new opportunities.

What you bring

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Computer and Information Technology, or a closely related field, plus 5 years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
• 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).
• Computer science fundamentals including APIs, microservices, and data architecture, with experience across the full SDLC (testing, release, and deployment) (5 years).
• SQL, data visualization tools for quantitative analysis, and performance reporting (5 years).
• Cloud platform concepts, API integrations, large-scale infrastructure migrations, data pipeline orchestration, and CI/CD practices (5 years).
• Experience in core financial services and platforms (5 years).
• Root-cause analysis and hypothesis-driven problem solving (5 years).
• ROI analysis, cost-benefit modeling, and business case development (5 years).
• Experience turning 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 for measurable customer and business impact (1 year).
• Experience with user journey mapping, usability testing, market research, wireframing, and Design Thinking principles (1 year).
• Experience in AI product development and research, including NLP, model training, and supervised and unsupervised learning (1 year).
• Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Healthcare coverage for you and your family
• Resources to create financial security and support your mental health
• Annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation (as applicable)

Salary and schedule

Austin, TX | $143,922 - $221,500 per year. 40 hours per week, M-F, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Tools and technologies

• JIRA, Confluence, SQL, APIs, microservices, CI/CD, NLP, Scrum, Kanban