PayPal Senior Director Product Consumer AI PayPal 

United States, California, San Jose 

225208010

Job Description:

This is a senior-level Individual Contributor (IC) role designed to accelerate and

AI Product Strategy & Vision:

• Define and champion the overarching AI strategy for PayPal’s consumer
  experience, aligning it with broader company goals.
• Drive cross-functional conversations to identify and prioritize new use cases for agentic AI-driven experiences that uplift our product offerings.

Individual Contributor Leadership:

• As a senior individual contributor, set a high bar for AI product management
  without having direct managerial responsibilities.
• Operate at a strategic level, influencing leaders, engineers, designers, data
  scientists, and other product managers to create and implement consumer AI
  initiatives.

Collaboration & Enablement:

• Collaborate deeply with existing product teams to highlight opportunities for AI, supporting them in adopting best practices and modern AI techniques.
• Use your AI expertise to mentor and guide product teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, andimprovement—ultimatelyelevating all teams’ AI capabilities.

Consumer-Centric Agentic Experience:

• Conceive and refine AI-driven features that act on the user’s behalf, automating, augmenting, or adapting user workflows seamlessly.
• Partner with design teams to ensure agentic experiences are intuitive,
  transparent, and aligned with PayPal’s brand principles of trust and security.

Execution & Delivery:

• Lead strategic discovery sessions, concept development, and feature definition, collaborating with engineering and data science leads.
• Develop robust business cases with measurable success criteria, and guide teams to deliver agentic AI experiences on schedule.

Ethical & Responsible AI:

• Advocate for and implement responsible AI principles, ensuring PayPal’s AI
  Innovations uphold data integrity, privacy, fairness, and user trust.
• Identify and address potential ethical considerations in new and existing AI
  products.

Market & Technical Insight:

• Stay informed about competitive landscapes, emerging technologies, and market trends; translate those insights into actionable recommendations.
• Maintain relationships with research, data science, and industry experts to
  continually refine and execute upon the AI strategy.
  

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of product management or equivalent experience, with significant
  focus on AI/ML-driven products.
• Proven AI expertise (could be through academic background, professional
  experience, or hands-on implementation) and a consistent track record of
  influencing organizational change without direct authority.
• Ability to translate complex AI concepts into actionable product ideas and drive cross-functional alignment.
• Experience conceiving, launching, and scaling new AI-centric or “agentic” product experiences at consumer scale.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and build trust with executives, engineers,
  designers, data scientists, and other product managers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, enabling you to act as a coach and guide to teams eager to adopt AI solutions.
• Passion for identifying and implementing responsible AI practices, ensuring user trust and regulatory compliance.
  

Why You’ll Love It:

• Opportunity to shape the AI vision and strategy for one of the world’s most trusted payment platforms.
• High-impact role influencing various parts of the PayPal ecosystem, driving
  tangible improvements through AI-driven experiences.
• Collaborate with talented teams across engineering, design, and product to
  embed AI in all areas of PayPal’s consumer offerings.
• Freedom to experiment and iterate on new ideas in a competitive, rapidly evolving environment.

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 $209,000 to $359,150

Our Benefits:

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