Senior Product Manager jobs in United States, California, San Francisco

Essential Responsibilities:

• Implement key people process, including talent and performance management.
• Coach and develop leaders, offering insights on people, teams, and organizational growth.
• Use data insights identify trends and influence evidence-based decisions for talent attraction, performance, and engagement.
• Support change management initiatives for successful adoption of organizational changes.
• -=Analyze organization effectiveness using data and feedback to assess people and organizational capability, providing consultation on how the organizational structure aligns with strategy and objective.
• Partner with leadership to create solutions for HR challenges.
• Collaborate with Employee Relations to address escalations and recurring people issues.

Expected Qualifications:

• 8+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience in a strategic HR role interfacing and influencing leadership.
• Experience leading senior leaders through various talent management processes, including performance management, talent assessments, succession planning and organization design.
• Effective communication and critical thinking skills.
• Demonstrated experience learning and thriving in a constantly changing environment and cultivating relationships across teams.

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 $123,500 to $212,850

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

The Company

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, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.

We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards. Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade.

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.

You will drive the reimagination of the entire stack, partnering with engineering, data science, and domain stakeholders to increase decision speed, improve performance, and enable platform-wide innovation.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Establish a shared vision across the company for one or more products, or a platform product enabling development & scalability, with a deliberate and cohesive strategy.
• Leads product strategy development, and develops a clear, executable view of the product strategy with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Influences the architectural roadmap and balances innovative design and technical implementation, while balancing regulatory requirements, time-to-market, meeting customer needs and product profitability.
• Champions the customer experience and prioritizes customer needs in product requirements and decision making.
• Defines and uses metrics that inform the success of products including usability studies, research and market analysis.
• Standardizes workstreams to include analytics, customer discovery, market research and competitive analysis to drive data-driven decision-making.
• Responsible for product profitability, including budgetary decisions.
• Leads operational mechanisms that drive execution and accountability including Product Reviews, Operating Reviews, and Business Reviews. Interfaces with senior leadership as needed.
• Maximizes efficiency in a constantly evolving environment where the process is fluid and creative solutions are the standard.

Expected Qualifications:

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

Own

Platform Strategy & Vision

• Define and lead theproduct vision for theAIDecisioning Platform, aligned with business goals across risk, compliance, and credit.

• Articulate along-term roadmapthat scales decisioning capabilities globally, across high-volume, low-latency environments.

End-to-End Stack Ownership

• Drive modernization across theentireAIdecisioningstack, including:

• Foundational data ingestion and quality frameworks

• Real-time and batch feature computation

• AI modeltraining,executionand orchestration

• Rules engines, decision logic, and policyevaluation

• Monitoring, alerting and agentic response

• Ensure the platform ismodular, scalable, and domain-agnosticwhile supporting domain-specific needs.

Product Development & Execution

• Lead product lifecycle from ideation to launch, with an emphasis on customer-centric design and developer experience.

• Balance technical depth and product intuition to makeprioritizationandtradeoffs in a complex ecosystem.

Speed, Accuracy & Resilience

• Set the product direction for improvingdecision latency, model integration speed, and decision quality.

• Prioritize performance, reliability, and observability as first-class platform capabilities.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• fraud, credit, compliance, data science, and infrastructure teamsto understand evolving needs and use cases.

• Align stakeholders across domains to drivestandardization, reduce duplication, and accelerate adoption.

Looking For

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years inproduct management, with 5+ years inplatform,ML Ops,ML infrastructure, or decisioning systems

• Strong technical background indataanalytics, ML/AI platforms, feature stores, or policy engines

Preferred Qualifications

• Proventrack recordbuildingdata-driven,ML/AI, real-time decisioning or scoring platforms at scale

• Experience supportingmultiple risk domains or regulated environmentsis a strong plus

Leadership & Mindset

• Strategic thinker who canown a long-term visionwhile delivering iteratively

• Platform evangelist who treats internal teams as customers

• Excellent communication and stakeholder alignment skills

• Comfortable leading in amatrixed, fast-paced environment

Why Join Us?

This is acareer-defining opportunityto shape the next-generationof AIdecisioning platform at PayPalimpactingbillions of decisions annuallyacross fraud, credit, and compliance.join a mission-drivenmodernizing andbuilding scalableand decisioninginfrastructure that powers the future of trustworthy financial innovation.

not justoptimizingdecisions.reimagining howfaster, smarter, and safer.

Ready to redefinedecisioning at PayPal? Apply now and help us buildnext.

Travel Percent:

PayPal is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

Actual Compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to work location, and relevant skills and experience.

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

PayPal does not charge candidates any fees for courses, applications, resume reviews, interviews, background checks, or onboarding. Any such request is a red flag and likely part of a scam. To learn more about how to identify and avoid recruitment fraud please visit.

For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

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.

to learn more about our culture and community.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

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.

Belonging at PayPal:

Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please.

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As a Sr. Software Development Engineer in Test, you’ll design and execute comprehensive manual and exploratory tests to ensure seamless, high-quality releases. You’ll collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to validate new features, assess end-to-end experiences, and ensure a consistent, high-trust user journey. In this role, you’ll own the testing lifecycle — defining test strategies, conducting regression and feature validation, managing release readiness, and driving continuous quality improvements. You’ll also identify opportunities to build or extend automation frameworks and tools that reduce manual effort, improve coverage, and enhance testing efficiency.

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.

Additional Responsibilities

• Proven experience performing both manual and automated testing for large-scale web applications, ensuring quality across frontend, backend, and data layers.

• Strong expertise in frontend and backend validation, including UI flows, APIs, and service-level integrations.

• Hands-on experience with modern automation frameworks such as Playwright or Cypress, with a deep understanding of test design and best practices for scalable web testing.

• Ability to design and build test automation frameworks from scratch, defining architecture, structure, and reusable components that accelerate team-wide adoption.

• Experience defining test strategies, coverage plans, and quality gates for complex features and distributed systems.

• Familiarity with continuous integration and delivery pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI) to enable automated regression and continuous validation.

• Skilled in debugging and root-cause analysis, using browser developer tools, network inspection, and logs to troubleshoot issues across the full stack.

• Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to influence quality practices across engineering teams and advocate for release readiness.

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 $123,500 to $212,850

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

Essential Responsibilities:

• Lead functional projects and programs to optimize operational processes.
• Identify issues and recommend best practices for process improvements.
• Partner with various departments to understand business trends.
• Drive business or process improvements within the function.
• Provide oversight and support for planning and management of financial, budget, and headcount targets.
• Act as a point of contact or liaison between business leadership, staff, and other key partners.
• Promote transparent reporting and foster a culture of data-driven decision-making by defining key metrics and evaluating progress.

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 $94,000 to $156,200

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

Essential Responsibilities:

• Identify issues and recommend best practices for internal control processes.
• Lead functional projects and programs to enhance internal control effectiveness.
• Partner with teams to analyze business trends and their impact on internal controls.
• Develop and implement strategies for process improvements within the internal controls function.
• Ensure compliance with laws and regulations through effective internal control measures.

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 $100,500 to $173,250

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

Essential Responsibilities:

• Perform work assignments using specialized content design knowledge and developed business expertise
• Lead projects and/or programs within content design family with moderate scope impacting function or sub-function
• Analyze, evaluate, and make decisions within general parameters under broad supervision
• May act as a subject matter resource for entry level and developing colleagues

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 .

The US national annual pay range for this role is $84,500 to $140,250

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please