PayPal Director Product Commerce Integrations 

United States, California, San Jose 

552464641

Essential Responsibilities:

• Establish a shared vision across the company for one or more products with a deliberate and cohesive strategy.

• Leads product strategy development, and develops a clear, executable view of the product strategy with cross-functional stakeholders.

• Influences the architectural roadmap and balances innovative design and technical implementation, while balancing regulatory requirements, time-to-market, meeting customer needs and product profitability.

• Champions the customer experience and prioritizes customer needs in product requirements and decision making.

• Defines and uses metrics that inform the success of products including usability studies, research and market analysis.

• Standardizes workstreams to include analytics, customer discovery, market research and competitive analysis to drive data-driven decision-making.

• Responsible for product profitability, including budgetary decisions.

• Leads operational mechanisms that drive execution and accountability including Product Reviews, Operating Reviews, and Business Reviews. Interfaces with senior leadership as needed.

• Leads a cross-function team, partnering with global partners including content strategists, data scientists, product designers and user experience researchers.

• Maximizes efficiency in a constantly evolving environment where the process is fluid and creative solutions are the standard.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 15 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

• Minimum of 3 years management experience

• Own product vision, strategy, and execution for integrating commerce solutions into PayPal’s emerging conversational search experience, powered by LLMs and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) methods.

• Define and prioritize a phased roadmap balancing foundational infrastructure, early partner integrations, and quick user-facing wins.

• Develop scalable integration models for structured commerce content (e.g.feeds, APIs, availability, pricing) withappropriate fallbacklogic for aggregator-based inventory.

• Partner closely with engineering, design, applied science, and partnerships to ship experiences that are context-aware, brand-safe, andconversion-optimized.

• Shape the taxonomy, ranking logic, and UX patterns for embedding shoppable content within search results and conversational flows.

• Guide test-and-learn cycles tovalidatehypotheses, drive performance improvements, and refine the balance between utility and monetization.

• Establish success metrics and instrumentation to measure engagement, revenue impact, and partner contribution.

• Stay current on developments in AI interfaces, RAG architectures, vector search, and commerce enablement platforms.

Requirements

• 8+ years of product management experience, including time spent on commerce, search, or platform integration initiatives.

• Familiarity with LLM-based products and architectures, including the fundamentals of RAG systems and their application to commerce discovery.

• Proven ability to lead in ambiguous, zero-to-one environments — defining strategy, driving alignment, and executing with urgency.

• Strong product instincts with an ability to simplify complex problems, make pragmatic tradeoffs, and focus on high-leverage opportunities.

• Experience building and launching partner-facing tools (e.g.structured feed ingestion, onboarding flows,integrationhealth dashboards).

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills; adept at navigating cross-functional dynamics and influencing across levels.

• Analytical mindset; comfortable interpreting experiment results and behavioral data to inform decision-making.

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The US national annual pay range for this role is $188,000 to $323,950

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