United States, Minnesota, Strategic Consultant jobs

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:

• Establish overall business or technical strategy with significant impact on PayPal operations.
• Influence decision-making at the executive level.
• Conduct discovery and develop strategies tailored to each organization.
• Negotiate and close customer contracts, determining pricing and agreements.
• Support account planning, business reviews, and strategic customer touchpoints.

Expected Qualifications:

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

Job Summary:

As the Director of Global Strategic, you will be an executive leader responsible for defining and executing PayPal’s strategy for integrating with the world's largest digital platforms, marketplaces, and e-commerce ecosystems. This high-impact role requires a strategic product and business leader with a proventrack recordof driving significant market share growth, managing large revenue streams, and securing C-level alignment for multi-year digital initiatives. You will be accountable for architecting and scaling product-led partnerships that position PayPal at the forefront of the future of commerce and agentic platforms.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Define the global strategic roadmap for PayPal’s presence across major digital platforms and commerce segments, ensuring alignment with corporate priorities and long-term vision.

• Billion in processed volume.

• Develop and execute complex go-to-market strategies for new payment solutions (e.g., BNPL/installments, subscriptions, stablecoins) across global platform partners.

• Secure executive alignment and critical resource prioritization by managing and influencing CEO and EVP-level stakeholders both internally at PayPal and externally with strategic partners.

• Lead deep cross-functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, Regional Commercial, Marketing, and Sales teams to ensure seamless product integration and GTM execution.

• Mentor and lead a high-performing global team, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and operational excellence.

Expected Qualifications:

• 15+ yearsof professional experience with a minimum of10+ yearsin a senior leadership role within Payments, e-Commerce, FinTech, or a platform-based ecosystem.

• Demonstrated executive leadership indigital payments, driving market share through strategic partnerships and product management.

• Deep specialization inPayments, eCommerce, loyalty, and complexgo-to-market strategies.

• Proven ability toarchitect and scale product-led partnershipsthat deliver measurable business impact.

• Exceptional executive presence, communication, and negotiation skills, witha track recordof securing funding and C-level commitment for multi-year strategic initiatives.

Preferred Qualification:

• Master’s degree in business administration (MBA) ora relatedfield.

• Expertise innext-generation payment systems, including BNPL/installments, subscriptions, stablecoins, and complex multi-seller marketplace infrastructures.

• Experience leading global expansion and managing initiatives across multiple geographies.

Job Requirements:

• 5years+ work experience in Sales and Solution selling

• Experience with Team management

• Commercial acumento leadCEO-levelnegotiation.

• Understanding of technical requirements for Solution selling

valid authorization to work in the country where the position is advertised/. Relocation support will not be provided for this role.

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.

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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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As a Data Science Consultant, you will be responsible for contributing to business strategy and influence decision making based on information gained from deep dive analysis. You will produce actionable and compelling recommendations by interpreting insights from complex data sets. You will design processes to consolidate and examine unstructured data to generate actionable insights. You will also collaborate with business leaders, engineers and industry experts to construct predictive models, algorithms and probability engines.

You will:

• Provide technical and strategic guidance to the team and executive stakeholders on complex AI/ML initiatives

• Design, develop, and deploy scalable Large Language Model (LLM) and Generative AI systems in real-world, production-grade environments

• Build robust, end-to-end AI pipelines, including data collection, preprocessing, model training, evaluation, deployment, and post-deployment monitoring

• Apply traditional machine learning approaches to solve predictive modeling and classification problems across both structured and unstructured datasets

• Collaborate closely with data engineers, MLOps specialists, and product managers to align AI solutions with business goals and continuously improve model performance, reliability, and user trust through experimentation, testing, and feedback-driven iteration

Essential Requirements

• Proven experience communicating complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and influencing product direction.

• Strong programming skills in Python , with hands-on experience using ML/AI frameworks such as PyTorch , TensorFlow , or similar.

• Self-driven and proactive, with the ability to own and lead end-to-end projects independently.

• Demonstrated ability to clearly explain statistical and algorithmic techniques at varying levels of technical depth.

• Experience building and deploying large-scale, production-ready machine learning systems and developing agentic AI solutions, such as tool-using agents, autonomous task workflows, or reasoning-based systems.

Desirable Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of industry experience, or Master’s degree with 6+ years of experience in a data science or machine learning role or equivalent experience

• Familiarity with building GenAI applications that enhance developer productivity , code generation, or documentation assistance, designing and optimizing prompts and templates for LLM-based applications, LLM frameworks such as LangChain , LlamaIndex , or similar open-source tools, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or autonomous agents powered by LLMs.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

We’re looking for a Program Manager to drive operational excellence, process innovation, and strategic program management for the Global Security Architecture Practice. In this role, you won’t just manage processes; you will engineer the operating system of the future for our practice. You will design, build, and manage the business processes that enable our Principal Architects to scale. This role is responsible for transforming the Palo Alto Networks’ collective security and innovation expertise into AI-driven consulting methodologies and assets that drive consistency, efficiency, and quality in all of GSAP’s client engagements.

You’ll partner closely with the Principal Architects and their leadership, as well as cross-functional teams including Sales and Technical Solutions, Product Management, Enterprise Security, and Unit42 consultants. Through these partnerships you will develop intellectual property, programs, and processes that help our Architects do their work.

Key Responsibilities

• Program Management & Enablement:

  • Build and maintain structure to define our formal partnership with Enterprise Security and Product Management, ensure that interactions are regular and substantive, and information sharing is structured, consistent, and bi-directional.

  • Own and execute the CoE's operating cadence, including the quarterly review of all library assets and the intake process for new contributions.

  • Drive adoption of CoE tools and methodologies across the global GSAP team through clear communications, training, and a strong feedback loop.

• Practice Development & Content Curation:

  • Partner with senior architects to translate their expertise into high-quality, reusable assets including templates and accelerators, standardized presentations, and strategic playbooks that are designed to be populated and customized by AI.

  • Implement a dynamic content strategy where advisory assets are easily updated and synthesized by AI tools.

  • Own and manage the central IP library ensuring all content is organized, current, and easy to access for both the Architects and AI agents.

• Process Creation, Improvement & Management:

• Implement systems to support clear, organized knowledge-sharing (e.g., permissioned Google Drive structures, audience-specific distribution lists) that scale across regional and functional teams.

• Engineer AI-native workflows by evaluating processes through a lens of automation, designing systems where AI is the primary engine of execution.

• Identify process gaps and operational inefficiencies, deploying human-in-the-loop solutions that maximize speed and free up Architects for deep-dive strategic work.

• Implement systems for knowledge sharing that capture "tribal knowledge" and automatically convert it into institutional assets.

Your Experience

• Experience in a management consulting, practice operations, business analyst, or technical program management role, preferably within a professional services or enterprise technology organization.

• Fluency in AI-driven operations, with the ability to view AI and automation as strategic levers that fundamentally change the reach and velocity of a practice.

• Exceptional organizational and project management skills; able to manage multiple complex projects and a library of assets with rigor and attention to detail.

• An excellent communicator and influencer who is passionate about training others and driving the adoption of new tools and processes.

• An understanding of the cybersecurity landscape is a major plus, but deep, practitioner-level security expertise is not required.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $142,000 - $206,000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.