As the Director, Business Data Products & Solutions, you will partner with various cross-functional collaborators across PayPal, including Risk, Compliance, Finance, Data Engineering, Data Architecture, Data Policy, Data Governance, Legal and other domains. You will deliver on the highest-value opportunities to meet the goals of our internal customers, our organizational priorities, and the satisfaction of our growing network of consumers and merchants.
• Alignment with Business Goals: Ensure that foundational data products and solutions are designed and delivered in accordance with the business's strategic objectives and priorities.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate closely with business stakeholders to understand their requirements, gather feedback, align shared OKRs as necessary, and transparently prioritize initiatives accordingly.
• Data Quality and Integrity: Ensure adherence to best practices and standards for the accuracy, reliability, and integrity of the data used in data products and solutions.
• Innovation: Continuously explore and leverage new technologies, tools, and methodologies to enhance data products and deliver additional value to the business.
Responsibilities- Stakeholder Engagement
- Build positive and influential relationships across organizations through strong collaborative interactions, proactive planning, and decisive leadership.
- Drive continuous discovery sessions with business partners to identify, scope, and prioritize opportunities to monetize or commercialize PayPal data assets aligned with business strategy.
- Partner with the Risk, Compliance, and Finance organizations to understand key revenue growth opportunities and ways data can unlock or unblock them.
- Own the creation of requirements for Data Product and Engineering teams based on discovery conversations with key stakeholders.
- Communicate plans with objectives, target outcomes, and critical results to all audiences, including the PayPal Senior Leadership team.
- Partner with Data Governance, Privacy, and Compliance teams to ensurethatour products and solutionscomply withregulatory boundaries.
- Guide and direct platform architects to organize and design information flows across platforms and products following standard taxonomy.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to promote best-in-class data products & services.
- Partner with customers and users to understand their business needs, objectives and align data management activities to achieve impactful results.
- Enable the integration of data management tools & capabilities within functional areas
- Anticipate and aggressively remove obstacles that slow or prevent delivery of product and program objectives; balance urgent and effective action, commitment to excellence, and taking the initiative to resolve problems.
- Operational
- Own the creation of data-driven requirements for Data Product and Engineering teams to enable development of insight services, based on approved design standards and reuseable architecture patterns.
- Define growth targets in tandem with internal customers and proactively monitor performance versus projections.
- Lead creation of business-driven data product requirements to enable insight services to be developed based on design standards and reusable architecture patterns.
- Deliver a metrics-based approach to data product execution & adoption within functional areas.
- Define and measure key performance indicators to evaluate and understand the value of data products and capabilities.
- Communication
- Articulate data strategy and communicate key data management concepts across the organization.
- Communicate plans with objectives, target outcomes, and critical results to all audiences, including the PayPal Senior Leadership team.
- Provide thought leadership and expertise in implemention and adoption of enterprise-widedata management frameworks and processes.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to promote best-in-class data products & services.
- Partner with customers and users to understand their business needs and align data management activities to achieve meaningful results.
Leadership Qualities- Strong collaboration skills and ability to influence across all organizations and levels within the company
- Ability to communicate clearly and succinctly to all levels within theorganization-translatingthe organization’s goals into execution plans & measures
- Possess the ability to connect, engage, and lead with empathy
- Promote a positive and healthy workplace where employees are inspired and engaged
- Motivate others through a shared vision and confidence that empowers employees to perform at their best
- Demonstrate ability to delegate work and manage team members
- Operate with transparency and honesty in all interactions
Skills
- 10+ years of enterprise data management experience, understanding all facets of data management disciplines, from data governance to data architecture.
Our Benefits:
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