PayPal Cybersecurity Strategy & Policy Analyst 

France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 

711787791

Essential Responsibilities:

• Independently apply security best practices to enhance and optimize systems, ensuring robust protection and efficiency, while beginning to understand and align security solutions with business objectives.
• Partner with peers and internal teams to drive security initiatives, contribute to cross-functional projects, and at times co-lead efforts to strengthen security posture.
• Analyze and resolve security challenges by adapting standard processes and exploring alternative approaches to address complex threats.
• Influence the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of the team through informed decision-making, with a potential impact on other teams.
• Collaborate with other engineers to gather and incorporate feedback, driving continuous improvements in security processes.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Your day to day

• Lead independent and cross-functional projects to evaluate high-priority security and technology topics, issues, and risks in relation to PayPal products, people, processes, and technology.

• Work with key partners to propose, assess, frame, and advocate for changes to PayPal technology policies and strategy, including requirements, guidance, roles, responsibilities, and terminology, based on evolving technologies, risks, industry standards, and compliance requirements.

• Identify and document key decision points, cost-benefit analysis, business trade-offs, technical and security risks, and other relevant factors for decision-makers related to technology policy and strategy.

• Established trusted working relationships with key partners across engineering, architecture, risk management, compliance, legal, communications, government relations, and oversight teams.

• Foster alignment with key partners on emerging policy topics, proposed changes, and implementation plans based on industry best practices, regulatory requirements, and organizational risk tolerance.

• Prepare working and executive-level reports, memos, and presentations to communicate complex concepts, risks, and recommendations in a clear and concise manner.

What you need to bring

• Knowledge of current and emerging information technologies (e.g., AI / ML); cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities; risk management processes and practices; industry standard control frameworks and best practices (e.g., NIST, ISO); and prominent cybersecurity and privacy regulations globally.

• Strong work ethic with proven ability to learn quickly, prioritize work, and manage complex deliverables to completion under established deadlines.

• Willingness to drill down into complex topics as needed to understand and validate key tactical or technical details with strategic level implications, and ability to identify and articulate those big picture considerations for key audiences.

• Superb consultative, adjudicative, investigative, and influencing skills, including business acumen, stakeholder empathy, and conflict resolution, as well as general comfort working in a dynamic, global, fluid, and matrixed working environment.

• Exceptional verbal and written communication and analysis skills, including experience developing high-quality written analysis, strategy, or policy documents

• Prior involvement in analysis, interpretation, and communication of legal or regulatory technology policy requirements.

• Practiced at targeting and delivering written work product and verbal presentations to varied audiences (e.g., executives, engineers, customers, regulators, etc.)

• Unquestionable professional and ethical integrity, ideally demonstrated through experience with projects of a sensitive, privileged, or confidential nature.

• Ability to approach and understand problems from a statistical or quantitative perspective and draw meaningful, accurate conclusions, as well as scrutinize models and inferences for misleading or overlooked considerations.

• Familiarity with advanced functionality in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as concept and process mapping tools (e.g., Miro, Mural, etc.).

• Candidates will be expected to provide 2 writing samples on relevant topics, ideally published or graded academic work (1 long-form analytic writing sample; 1 short-form discursive or informative writing sample).

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 $123,500 to $212,850

Our Benefits:

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