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• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Finance, or related field.
• 7 years of experience related to category management, procurement, or related fields.
• 5 years of experience in sourcing, category management, or procurement roles, with a focus on managing engineering, technical operations or related categories.
• Experience with sourcing strategies, “Request For” processes (i.e., RFP, RFI, RFQ), negotiations, and supplier evaluations within designated categories, achieving cost savings and value creation.
• Experience with Contract Management within the Engineering and Technical Operations category, or related areas.

• Advanced degree or certifications in Procurement, Supply Chain Management, or related field.
• Experience in developing and managing key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure category performance and track progress towards strategic goals.
• Experience leveraging technology/investigative tools (i.e., SQL, AI tools) to enhance category management practices and drive data-driven decision-making.
• Knowledge of ensuring agreements are in compliance with legal and company standards while partnering with cross-functional partners in this regard.
• Excellent project management skills with the ability to lead strategic projects/initiatives aimed at improving procurement processes, implementing new strategies, or driving innovation within the category.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in networking, compute infrastructure (e.g., servers, databases, firewalls, load balancers) and architecting, developing, or maintaining cloud solutions in virtualized environments.
• 3 years of experience in project management and technical solution delivery.
• Ability to travel 30% of the time, as needed, for client engagements.

• Experience with one or more third-party networking products (e.g., PANW, Fortinet, VMWare Cloud Foundation).
• Experience in scalable networking design, including high availability, redundancy, fail-over, and load balancing.
• Experience troubleshooting networking protocols such as TCP/IP, HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTP/S), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
• Experience in customer-facing migration, including service discovery, assessment, planning, execution, and operations.
• Knowledge of containerization and container orchestration technologies such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Familiarity with standard IT security practices such as identity and access management, data protection, encryption, certificate and key management.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
  
• 3 years of leadership experience, such as people management, team lead, mentorship, or coaching.
• Experience as a Pre-Sales Manager or a people manager in a technical customer-facing role within a Sales Engineering team.
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time as needed.

• 2 years of experience supporting or selling to state, county, local municipal agencies, and academic institutions.
• Experience with software life-cycles, building tools, and architecting and developing software for scalable, distributed systems, including data platform, AI/ML including Generative AI and infrastructure.
• Experience managing a team through sales processes, operations and career development, including account mapping, quota setting, quarterly/annual performance management, and managing sensitive information.
  
• Experience presenting to technical stakeholders and executive leaders, including delivering messages by the audience, asking tactical questions, and leading conversations that drive business opportunities.

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.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Directs and controls the delivery of business and technical outcomes that comprise multiple projects and operational activities within a domain through organizational and technical leadership
• Defines engineering health objectives that drive organization health, engineering best practices and operational targets
• Drives product and technical strategy with cross-functional leaders across the enterprise to deliver Domain goals
• Responsible for the delivery of programs, establishing annual organizational goals and ensuring performance and results that impact both their domain and potentially enterprise
• Develops engineering strategy that translates into operational and tactical plans; uses ground-breaking methods to think beyond existing solutions
• Sets the tri-annual roadmap for a domain level organization. Defines the operational strategy for a domain based on a defined budget
• Evaluates key business challenges and can complete complex, ambiguous initiatives having impact across engineering; directs the development of new or innovative solutions. Ability to deal with high levels of technical domain level ambiguity.
• Collaborates with direct team, managers in org, stakeholders, managers in other orgs, external partners and business stakeholders

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 15 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 3 years management experience

• Proven experienceas aDirector(or higher) leading engineering teams in a large-scale, matrixed organization.

• Deep understanding ofmodern developer tools,CI/CD,API lifecycle, anddeveloper platforms.

• Strong familiarity withAI/ML, especially inLLMs,AI-generated documentation, andintelligent agent workflows.

• Experience withno-code/low-code platforms, developer portals, and automated onboarding systems.

• Demonstrated success in coordinating complex technical programs involving200+ cross-functional engineers.

• Ability to define scalable architectural patterns and influence technical strategy at a platform level.

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and organizational navigation skills.

• Experience delivering developer platformsata global scale (e.g., APIs used by millions).

• Contributions to open-source or developer ecosystem tools.

• Understanding ofdeveloper needs across different ecosystems (REST,GraphQL, Webhooks, etc.).

• Familiarity with developer-centric AI applications and next-gen IDE integrations.

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 .

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.

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.

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.

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

Job responsibilities

• Leads technology and process implementations to achieve functional technology objectives
• Makes decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
• Carries governance accountability for coding decisions, control obligations, and measures of success such as cost of ownership, maintainability, and portfolio operations
• Delivers technical solutions that can be leveraged across multiple businesses and domains
• Influences peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams
• Champions the firm’s culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
• Deep expertise with enterprise design patterns and industry best practices with experience using modern technology (e.g., Java, Cassandra, Kafka) and design patterns (e.g., micro services, APIs)
• Excellent communication skills and ability to present to and communicate effectively with key stakeholders across product, technology, data and design
• Experience with building, leading and mentoring technology teams and next level leaders within the organization
• Demonstrated proficiency in application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines
• Experience developing or leading cross-functional teams of technologists
• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
• Practical cloud native experience
• Experience with high volume, mission critical applications
• Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience working at code level

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Civil or Structural Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program or project management.
• Experience as a civil engineer or environmental engineer, working on the tech aspects of hydrology.
• Experience in policy and advocacy within the water or energy sector.

• Experience in recycled water and heat reuse market development, including policy, regulation, and market design.
• Experience creating and managing partnerships in the water space with NGOs, think tanks, and other industry leaders.
• Experience in hyperscale data center infrastructure strategy, design, and operations.
• Experience working with the various institutions of government, including experience with regulatory dockets and intervention.
• Experience interpreting and applying environmental regulations and environmental permit requirements to industrial facilities.
• Understanding of global water market structures, regulatory constructs, and policies.

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Civil or Structural Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• Experience in water cooling or heating reuses.
• Experience in technical infrastructure in data centers, power plants, oil refineries, water treatment, or nuclear environments.
• Experience in partnering with third-party utility agreements related to technical infrastructure.

• Experience with leading global data center initiatives with the knowledge of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and how it applies to data centers.
• Experience in hyperscale datacenter infrastructure strategy, design, and operations.
• Experience in leading energy efficiency, water efficiency, and carbon emission reduction projects.
• Experience with managing or developing water/wastewater utility projects and thermal heat exchanger projects.
• Experience with cooling towers and closed loop cooling system operations.