PayPal Lead Product Manager-Merchant Lifecycle 

France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 

154661257

What you need to know about the role-This role is pivotal in ensuring that our merchants have a seamless, intuitive, and efficient setup process, which is crucial for their activation and long-term success on our platform.

Your day to day

• Build AI-enabled, API-first product experiences in close collaboration with Engineering, UX, and Data Science teams.

• Define and drive the roadmap, and execution of merchant lifecycle solutions with a focus on delivering value, scalability, and exceptional user experience.

• Operate with an entrepreneurial mindset, taking end-to-end ownership and proactively identifying opportunities for impact.

• Be deeply hands-on — engaging with data, experimentation, product design, and delivery to ensure outcomes are met and drive merchant engagement.

• Hands on with tools like Amplitude, Tableau, SQL Queries, Excel and build hypothesis driven product development

• Develop and implement product-led growth strategies to drive self-serve adoption, engagement, and retention.

• Collaborate closely with enterprise platform teams to ensure architectural and capability alignment.

• Lead cross-functional collaboration with Risk, Compliance, Legal, Analytics, and UX to deliver secure, compliant, and customer-centric solutions.

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• You will conduct both primary and secondary customer research to inform product vision and strategy.

• Apply both first principles thinking and systems thinking to solve complex, multi-dimensional challenges.

• Work effectively with global teams across multiple time zones, driving alignment and execution in a distributed setup.

• Ensure products align to regulatory framework with the region and collaborate both legal and compliance subject matter experts

• Recent experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol) and Agentic AI automation is an added advantage

What do you need to bring-

• Minimum 10+ Years of software experience. At least 7+Yrs proven experience as a Product Manager

• Strong background in user experience design, onboarding, and regulatory compliance.

• Demonstrated ability to lead complex projects and drive strategic initiatives.

• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

• Data-driven mindset with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Experience with legacy system modernization and infrastructure improvements is a plus.

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