Sr Specialist Creative & Content jobs at Paypal in United States, Chicago

Essential Responsibilities:

• Drive revenue growth and global market expansion by identifying and cultivating strategic partnerships, channels, and opportunities
• Lead the negotiation with external partners and engage cross-functional support colleagues to ensure the successful delivery of solutions for large complex partnerships
• Develop and execute an overall business strategy to identify and cultivate strategic partnerships, channels, and opportunities to drive revenue growth and global market expansion
• Influence the negotiation with external partners, engaging cross-functional support colleagues, to ensure successful delivery of solutions for large complex partnerships
• Align product and business levers (such as pricing and FX) to maximize revenue and market expansion opportunities
• Engage closely with product, engineering, and architecture teams to drive the architectural runway and determine the best technicalimplementation/design
• Represent the end customer on an ongoing basis and use this knowledge to drive effective prioritization and decision-making

Expected Qualifications:

• 12+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Job Description

PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years, creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure. As the Senior Director, PayPal Consumer Debit, you will play a pivotal role in scaling our Consumer Debit Card line of business globally through product and go-to-market innovation that serves both our consumers and merchants as well as leveraging partnership opportunities. This position requires a strong, seasoned leader who excels in a highly collaborative, cross-functional, and values-driven environment. You will own and accelerate growth by leading efforts to deepen engagement with our existing base, reduce churn, and unlock new acquisition use cases by combining product and marketing into a holistic debit card strategy and narrative. In this role, you will work closely with the debit and consumer product teams to ensure that our debit card products integrate seamlessly with our existing portfolio. You will drive significant improvements through strategic initiatives across the full product lifecycle and go-to-market activities, including product development, marketing, sales, and account management. Representing the 'voice of the customer,' you will define and articulate the vision and direction of our debit products through narratives, presentations, and documentation. Cross-functional collaboration is key, as you will partner closely with Product and Marketing to align on goals and ensure we are building the right solutions for our current and future target markets. Your responsibilities will also include influencing cross-functional teams across Product, Design, and Growth to drive alignment on strategy, narrative, and priorities. You will work with markets to effectively bring our debit card products to market, focusing on pricing, positioning, and creating adoption and engagement strategies. This role is critical in helping PayPal achieve its goals in the debit card sector, ensuring that we continue to lead in innovation and customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Define and articulate the vision for growth leveraging industry best practices, PayPal ecosystem and innovation
• Drive revenue growth and global market expansion by identifying and cultivating strategic partnerships, channels, and opportunities
• Influence the negotiation with external partners, engaging cross-functional support colleagues, to ensure successful delivery of solutions for large complex partnerships
• Own and accelerate growth by leading efforts to deepen engagement with existing base, reduce churn, and unlock new acquisition use cases.
• Work with Sales and Marketing on Distribution partnerships that are avenues for growth.
• Work with product, marketing and risk teams to ensure debit card products integrate seamlessly within the PayPal ecosystem.
• Drive improvements via strategic initiatives across the full funnel of the product lifecycle and go-to-market activities.
• Represent and own the 'voice of the customer' and market approach across the business unit.
• Partner closely with Product on the roadmap to ensure the right solutions are built for target markets.
• Collaborate with Marketing to meet collective goals across adoption and revenue.
• Influence cross-functionally across Product, Design, and Growth to drive alignment on strategy and priorities.
• Work closely with markets team on bringing debit card products to market
• Support applicable audit, compliance, and control requirements for PayPal Debit.

Requirements

• 12+ years of leadership and P&L management experience in fintech, debit cards, or financial services companies with industry-leading debit card products.
• Good understanding of consumer debit needs, consumer behavior and P&L dynamics.
• Experience with driving growth through partnerships and negotiating deals
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Experience leading business functions that require coordination of many stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Experience developing strategy and roadmap for large-scale products.
• Very strong written and verbal communication skills with a talent for precise articulation of customer problems.
• Ability to adapt, be flexible, and responsive to dynamic situations.
• Ability to navigate a highly matrixed environment.
• Exceptional leadership abilities with a proven track record of effectively leading and developing high-performing teams.
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills, with a commitment to empowering team members for professional growth

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

Essential Responsibilities:

• Uses data to build insights on product requirements consistent with the shared vision for the product.
• Gathers insights from the customer experience and customer needs to input to product requirements
• Analyzes research, market analysis and usability studies, research and market analysis to support data-driven decision making
• Monitors product profitability measures, including budget.
• Lead sprint planning, daily standups and retrospectives to drive execution. Interfaces with product leadership as needed.
• Partners with content developers, data scientists, product designers and user experience researchers to identify new opportunities.

Expected Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

Essential Responsibilities:

• Identify issues and recommend best practices for content creation and management within the team.
• Understand merchant needs, strategic goals, and business objectives
• Collaborate with team members to develop compelling narratives and visual assets that engage audiences.
• Monitor and evaluate the performance of content initiatives and suggest necessary adjustments.
• Stay informed about industry trends to ensure content strategies remain relevant and effective.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts and maintain regular communication with internal teams
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery of high-quality content

Expected Qualifications:

• 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

Essential Responsibilities:

• Delivers complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) (design, implementation, testing, delivery and operations), based on definitions from more senior roles.
• Advises immediate management on project-level issues
• Guides junior engineers
• Operates with little day-to-day supervision, making technical decisions based on knowledge of internal conventions and industry best practices
• Applies knowledge of technical best practices in making decisions

Expected Qualifications:

• 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

Essential Responsibilities:

• Partner with PayPal business leaders and wider PayPal finance organization on accounting and reporting matters
• Drive accounting support within finance transformation work programs and other process enhancements
• Provide accounting expertise and leadership to finance and business organizations
• Consult with business partners regularly to ensure awareness of significant transactions and potential accounting impact

Expected Qualifications:

• 8+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

High Level Job Summary:

This role will report directly to the Credit Controller and will be responsible for leading daily and monthly accounting operations, monthly and quarterly reporting (including 10Q/10K) and also, working on complex accounting areas related to PayPal’s rapidly expanding Global Consumer and Merchant loan portfolios. Key responsibilities will include: quarterly SEC reporting and CECL allowance process, ongoing loan portfolio externalizations (ie. loan sales and securitizations), and other special projects, such as product launches, system migrations, changes in accounting policy and broader finance automation initiatives. It is a fast-paced environment that requires juggling of multiple projects with competing deadlines. Highly automated Accounting environment with multiple loan servicing systems, as well as other supporting systems, which adds unique operational complexities and requires a focus on streamlining and automation solutions to ensure scalability. Role will oversee the 3 accounting managers on the team.

• Cross functional teams across PayPal, include: FP&A, Capital Markets, Credit Risk, Data Analytics, System Platform, Corporate Accounting, Treasury, Accounting Policy, SEC Reporting, SOX, etc.
  • Partnership with Capital Markets team (and greater Credit FP&A team) which are based in NYC is a critical function of this role. Note: Credit business partners/leaders are primarily based on the East Coast, across the Tri-State area.
• Oversee quarterly CECL Allowance process. This is a key focus area with a high level of scrutiny due to subjectivity and materiality of the estimate. Quarterly process includes heavy partnership withCredit Risk and Credit Finance to align on reserveestimates and ultimately present a detailed deck to leadership.
• Review complex journal entries and ensure the accuracy of information through well-documented workpapers. Proactively identify, communicate, and resolve any issues or reconciling items.
  
• Work with a high degree of initiative to identify and recommend process improvement opportunities through automation to ensure all processes are scalable for Credit business’ rapid expansion.
• Develop and improve internal process documentation. Ability to analyze and walkthrough new or existing accounting processes from beginning to end and outline journal entries.
• Collaborate with the other managers on the team for specific projects and oversight of day-to-day team operations.
• Partner with PayPal business leaders and wider PayPal finance organization on accounting and reporting matters

• Drive accounting support within finance transformation work programs and other process enhancements
• Provide accounting expertise and leadership to finance and business organizations
• Consult with business partners regularly to ensure awareness of significant transactions and potential accounting impact

Required Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to articulate ideas and plans clearly and effectively with internal and external audiences at a leadership level.
• Ability to influence where you do not have direct authority through strong interpersonal skills
• Quick learner with a high degree of attention to detail and understanding of business/accounting processes.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously across cross functional teams.
• High degree of personal integrity and professional skepticism.
• Open to change and committed to continuous process improvement.
• Have a reputation for getting things done.

Required Qualification:

• 12+ years of Audit/Accounting experience: Minimum 5 years required at a Big Four public accounting firm.
• Experience in Credit or Banking industry is required.
• CPA required

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

Essential Responsibilities:

• Delivers complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) (design, implementation, testing, delivery and operations), based on definitions from more senior roles.
• Advises immediate management on project-level issues
• Guides junior engineers
• Operates with little day-to-day supervision, making technical decisions based on knowledge of internal conventions and industry best practices
• Applies knowledge of technical best practices in making decisions

Expected Qualifications:

• 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

As Senior Software Engineer, you will participate in all phases of our software development lifecycle from design, architecture and planning to development, testing, deployment, monitoring and beyond. You will be responsible in delivering an industry leading product and directing its next phase of growth. You will deep dive and implement robust solutions to complex problems. The prospective candidate will be an individual contributor working with various cross functional groups (business, product, analytics, engineering) and will require admirable collaboration skills. Business acumen, hands-on technology skills, positive work ethic and a collaborative mindset are key to the success of this role.

Your day to day:

In your day-to-day role you will

o Own implementation of amodule/application/product.

o Develop efficient, elegant, clean code with no unnecessary complication or abstraction.

What do you need to bring-

o Solid understanding of Ruby language and working experience in Rails framework

o Knowledge in Java Reactive programming, Spring framework, Spring boot is a strong plus

o Good understanding of web services and related standards like REST/JSON and gRPC

o Experience in Object-Oriented programming and concepts.

o Solid understanding of algorithms and design patterns.

o Experiences in both relational and non-relational DB, like Oracle and Aerospike/Redis

o Experience in Junit and TestNG.

o Exposure to Agile methodologies.

o Strong problem-solving skills.

o Financial or Payment industry experience is preferred.

o Proven track record in delivering highly available, scalable systems on time.

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

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

Essential Responsibilities:

• Develop and optimize machine learning models for various applications.
• Preprocess and analyze large datasets to extract meaningful insights.
• Deploy ML solutions into production environments using appropriate tools and frameworks.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate ML models into products and services.
• Monitor and evaluate the performance of deployed models.

Expected Qualifications:

• 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience with ML frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and tools for data processing and model deployment.
• Several years of experience in designing, implementing, and deploying machine learning models.

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please