PayPal Program Manager Business Management 

France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 

67919215

This job oversees and coordinates related projects to ensure they benefit one another and meet business goals.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Scope: The project & program responsibilities are focused on internal information system-specific project tasks or non-technical project completion using an internal customer perspective, both typically from initiation through delivery.
• Organize daily activities based on organizational goals.
• Develop and implement new programs that support objectives.
• Monitor projects and oversee project managers.
• Evaluate program strengths and weaknesses.
• Develop program budgets and plans.
• Meet with stakeholders to discuss program status and goals.
• Improve strategies with the marketing team.

Expected Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

In your day-to-day role you will be responsible for:

Define launch strategy for new product capabilities including geographic scope and rollouts, detailed timing, ramp and analytics plan.

Proactively manage across stakeholder groups to establish interdependencies, identify risks and resource constraints, and eliminate significant roadblocks in a timely fashion.

Ensure measurable KPIs are developed for the program, and that they align to the overall KPIs for the product.

Design and manage pilots and beta testing.

Work with product and engineering leaders to define program OKRs and have consistent way to manage and report.

Ensure regular, active communication with adjacent programs and external stakeholders, including international regions.

Identify program impediments and addresses including proper escalation to individuals/groups as needed.

Lead effective program governance and stakeholder management, ensuring adequate understanding of timelines, resource needs, risks, contentions, and dependencies.

Assess the current methodology, identify/rationalize gaps vs. best practices, and continuously improve the process to support our aggressive deployment schedule.

What do you need to bring:

Professional experience requirements:

• Overall 12 years of experience and 5+ years into program management.
• Relevant experience organizing multiple teams delivering on software/product development initiatives required. Agile lifecycle management experience preferred.
• Successful track record of managing complex development programs to deliver technical solutions and achieve business results, positively impacting the customer experience.
• Proven ability to develop effective, matrixed, cross-organization relationships, collaborating and communicating across business and technology stakeholders and multiple geographies
• Strong technical acumen and strong voice of the customer across the program delivery lifecycle.
• Good knowledge of project management process, project management software tools, templates and management techniques
• Experience with different software development methodologies including the agile development methodology such as Scrum
• Success in developing program/project level artifacts to support a major software implementation program with concurrent releases

Key competency requirements:

• An inherent bias to action
• Proven leadership skills; self-motivated and a self-starter with a “Can do” attitude
• Team player, energetic personality, quality minded, focused, committed and able to work independently in a fast-paced, changing environment
• High degree of professional confidence and credibility with effective presence, strong written and verbal communication skills, able to communicate technical concepts and plans at all levels
• Sharp business judgment, detail oriented yet able to always see the "big picture"
• Strong partnering and influencing skills in all mediums and throughout all levels of the organization including senior leaders
• Strong problem-solving skills, able to prioritize among many conflicting needs, advocate a course of action, and pursue it consistently
• Ability to adapt, be flexible and responsive to dynamic situations

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please