Lead Architect Developer Platforms jobs at Paypal in United States, San Jose

Essential Responsibilities:

• Establish overall business or technical strategy for user experience initiatives.
• Negotiate with and influence decision-making reaching the senior executive level
• Identify and resolve unique situations of substantial significance in user interface or interaction design
• Allocate resources, responsibly and apply creativity to enhancing user and customer experiences across digital and physical products and services
• Lead the development of user experience strategies that resonate with target audiences.
• Support and mentor less-experienced roles to provide an example of innovation, excellence, and day-to-day learning

Expected Qualifications:

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

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This is not just a UX strategy or systems design role—it’s both. You will lead the practice of Experience Architecture: the structuring of journeys, flows, navigation, taxonomy, and interaction models into a unified, extensible system. Your work will ensure that every interaction fits together to form a complete, coherent whole—one that reflects our brand, reinforces behavior, and reduces experience entropy as we scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect the Experience Ecosystem
  

• Lead Horizontal Experience Strategy
  Architect critical cross-product journeys (e.g., Account, Wallet, Rewards) that unify the customer experience across silos.

• Own and Govern Taxonomy & Information Architecture
  Partner with Content Design, Product Design, and Engineering to establish scalable IA systems and navigational models.

• Advance Service Design & System Mapping
  Connect frontstage flows to backstage systems and operational logic; drive service blueprinting across the product lifecycle.

• Drive CX Improvements
  Identify and resolve systemic customer experience issues across surfaces, workflows, and product areas through architectural interventions—not just interface refinements.

• Partner with Design Systems
  Collaborate to encode architectural logic into reusable components and interaction frameworks, ensuring real behavior is reflected—not just UI consistency.

• Transform Experience Delivery
  Work with Product Ops and PMO to embed architectural checkpoints into planning, roadmapping, and SDLCprocesses—acceleratingdelivery while protecting experience integrity.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in experience design, UX architecture, or systems design, with a strong portfolio demonstrating strategic impact.

• Proven leadership in structuring complex digital ecosystems and scaling design systems.

• Deep expertise in journey mapping, taxonomy design, interaction modeling, and platform strategy.

• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence across disciplines and levels.

• Experience working in large-scale, matrixed organizations with a focus on platform thinking and design maturity.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with enterprise platforms, developer tools, or internal design infrastructure.

• Familiarity with accessibility standards, localization, and inclusive design practices.

• Strategic mindset with a bias for action and a passion for enabling great design at scale.

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 .

The US national annual pay range for this role is $188,000 to $323,950

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

This job will involve creating new two sided ecosystems and networks on Venmo. It involves strong 0 to 1 product development skills and ability define strategy and move fast with conviction.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Drives product strategy with cross-functional stakeholders consistent with the shared vision for the product or enabling platform.
• 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 and technology 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:

• 8+ 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 .

The US national annual pay range for this role is $169,500 to $291,500

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

Essential Responsibilities:

• Performs SaaS and enterprise-wide applications assignments using specialized enterprise systems knowledge and developed business expertise
• Leads enterprise-wide applications projects and/or programs within PayPal with moderate scope impacting information technology or enterprise systems functions
• Analyzes, evaluates, and makes decisions within general parameters under broad supervision
• May act as an enterprise systems resource for entry level and developing colleagues

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 .

The US national annual pay range for this role is $111,500 to $191,950

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

This job contributes to product strategy alongside cross-functional stakeholders, ensuring alignment with the shared vision. It includes implementing an architectural roadmap that balances innovative design with regulatory requirements, customer needs, and profitability. The position focuses on enhancing customer experience and monitoring success metrics through usability studies and market analysis. Responsibilities also encompass managing workstreams for analytics and competitive analysis, overseeing product profitability, participating in operational reviews, and collaborating with content developers, data scientists, and designers. This job is an individual contributor.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Inputs to product strategy with cross-functional stakeholders consistent with the shared vision for the product or enabling platform.
• Implements the architectural roadmap that balances innovative design and technical implementation, while balancing regulatory requirements, time-to-market, meeting customer needs and product profitability.
• Controls for the customer experience and customer needs in product requirements and as an input to decision making.
• Monitors metrics that inform the success of products including usability studies, research and market analysis.
• Manages one or more workstreams to include analytics, customer discovery, market research and competitive analysis to drive data-driven decision-making.
• Monitors product profitability measures, including budget.
• Participates in operational mechanisms that drive execution and accountability including Product Reviews, Operating Reviews, and Business Reviews. Interfaces with product and technology leadership as needed.
• Partners with content developers, data scientists, product designers and user experience researchers.

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 .

The US national annual pay range for this role is $152,500 to $262,350

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

Essential Responsibilities:

• Inputs to product strategy with cross-functional stakeholders consistent with the shared vision for the product.
• Implements the architectural roadmap that balances innovative design and technical implementation, while balancing regulatory requirements, time-to-market, meeting customer needs and product profitability.
• Controls for the customer experience and customer needs in product requirements and as an input to decision making.
• Monitors metrics that inform the success of products including usability studies, research and market analysis.
• Manages one or more workstreams to include analytics, customer discovery, market research and competitive analysis to drive data-driven decision-making.
• Monitors product profitability measures, including budget.
• Participates in operational mechanisms that drive execution and accountability including Product Reviews, Operating Reviews, and Business Reviews. Interfaces with product leadership as needed.
• Partners with content developers, data scientists, product designers and user experience researchers.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 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 .

The US national annual pay range for this role is $152,500 to $262,350

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

Job Summary
You’ll work with other product managers and engineering and design to build and execute a product roadmap.You will leverage the data around our existing products and review where the largest opportunities may be to grow and expand our target audiences, manage request intake and feature scoping, and participate in agile ceremonies to drive the execution and launch of new features. You will be the point person for your area, balancing customer desires, business requirements, legal/compliance, growth, and monetization considerations.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Inputs to product strategy with cross-functional stakeholders consistent with the shared vision for the product.
• Implements the architectural roadmap that balances innovative design and technical implementation, while balancing regulatory requirements, time-to-market, meeting customer needs and product profitability.
• Controls for the customer experience and customer needs in product requirements and as an input to decision making.
• Monitors metrics that inform the success of products including usability studies, research and market analysis.
• Manages one or more workstreams to include analytics, customer discovery, market research and competitive analysis to drive data-driven decision-making.
• Monitors product profitability measures, including budget.
• Participates in operational mechanisms that drive execution and accountability including Product Reviews, Operating Reviews, and Business Reviews. Interfaces with product leadership as needed.
• Partners with content developers, data scientists, product designers and user experience researchers.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

• 8+ years of consumer web or mobile product management experience

• Proven track record of delivering successful large-scale mobile products

• Comfortable using data and analytics to inform product hypotheses and decisions

• Ability to lead cross-functional groups and drive action in high-growth environments

• Deep empathy and appreciation for customer needs

• Experience designing simple and intuitive user interfaces

• Strong sense of visual design and detail

• Experience in Payments, Banking, or Consumer Financial Services is a plus

• Comfortable dealing with product complexity and initiative ambiguity

• Skilled at communicating across a range of stakeholders (product, engineering, design, data, commercial leaders, senior executives, etc.)

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 .

The US national annual pay range for this role is $152,500 to $262,350

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

This job drives product strategy in alignment with a shared vision, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders. It includes planning and implementing an architectural roadmap that balances innovative design with regulatory requirements and customer needs. The position assesses customer experience and establishes data-gathering mechanisms to measure product success through usability studies and market analysis. Responsibilities also encompass overseeing product profitability, leading operational reviews, and partnering with various experts to maximize efficiency in a dynamic environment. This job is an individual contributor.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Drives product strategy with cross-functional stakeholders consistent with the shared vision for the product or enabling platform.
• 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 and technology 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:

• 8+ 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 .

The US national annual pay range for this role is $169,500 to $291,500

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please