Sr Lead Product Manager

Senior Lead Product Manager

We're seeking an experienced Senior Lead Product Manager to drive the strategy, vision, and execution of PayPal's Developer Data Platform. This platform is central to how we measure and improve developer productivity across the organization, empowering engineers, managers, and leaders to accelerate delivery and enhance quality.

In this role, you'll collaborate across engineering, data science, and developer productivity teams to define the architectural and product roadmap, balancing innovative design with regulatory requirements, customer needs, and product profitability. You'll establish mechanisms to measure product success through usability studies, analytics, and market analysis while leading operational reviews and partnering with experts to ensure efficient execution in a dynamic environment. This is a high-impact individual contributor role, where you will directly influence the future of engineering excellence at PayPal.

Essential Responsibilities :

• Drives product strategy with cross-functional stakeholders consistent with the shared vision for the product.
• 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.
• Plans operational mechanisms that drive execution and accountability including Product Reviews, Operating Reviews, and Business Reviews. Interfaces with product leadership as needed.
• Partners with content strategists, data scientists, product designers and user experience researchers.
• Maximizes efficiency in a constantly evolving environment where the process is fluid and creative solutions are the standard.

Expected Qualifications :

Candidate Profile :

The ideal candidate is a strategic product leader with a proven track record of delivering complex platform products in technical domains. They thrive at the intersection of product, data, and engineering, bringing expertise in developer productivity frameworks and a passion for improving the software delivery lifecycle. This individual balances big-picture vision with hands-on execution, leveraging strong analytical skills and stakeholder influence to drive business outcomes.

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