PayPal Senior Product Manager -Payment Platform 

United States, California, San Jose 

314311323

What you need to know about the role

Value Added Services Strategy & Roadmap:

• Own and evolve the product vision and roadmap for Value-Added Services that complement and enhance the core payments platform.

• Identify market gaps and growth opportunities across services such as fraud detection, tokenization, FX and treasury optimization, smart retry, settlement insights, and compliance monitoring.

• Define monetization strategies for VAS products, including tiered packaging, usage-based pricing, or ecosystem bundling.

Payments Platform Thinking:

• Drive platform-firstarchitecture—ensuringVAS solutions are embedded, modular, and scalable across all payment flows (checkout, payouts, B2B, cross-border).

• Partner with platform engineering to architect services that are performant, resilient, and extensible across merchant and partner segments.

• Define clear KPIs to track product adoption, revenue contribution, and operational impact (e.g., risk reduction, conversion uplift).

• Continuously evaluate customer feedback, industry benchmarks, and platform telemetry to iterate on VAS performance.

Commercial Acumen & GTM:

• Build detailed business cases, market sizing, and unit economics to support prioritization and executive alignment.

• Collaborate with GTM teams to define target segments, use cases, and positioning strategies for VAS offerings.

• Enable commercial teams with messaging, ROI calculators, and training materials to support field sales and partnerships.​

• Work across Risk, Compliance, Treasury, and Legal teams to build secure and compliant VAS offerings that solve mission-critical needs.

• Partner with Data Science to embed intelligence and automation into services like fraud scoring or dynamic FX

What you need to bring

• 8+ years of product and platform experience, within the payments or financial technology sectors, with a proven track record of launching and scaling products that deliver quantifiable value to customers (consumers and/or merchants).

• Deep understanding of acquiring/processing platforms, value-added services, fraud/risk tools, FX/treasury flows, and transaction routing.

• Familiarity with global regulatory environments, compliance standards, and risk management protocols.

• Track record of delivering platform-native services in collaboration with engineering, analytics, and operations teams.

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills—capable of influencing across product, GTM, legal, and executive layers.

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 U.S. national annual pay range for this role is

$96900 to $234300

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please