PayPal Sr Lead Product Manager Regulatory Compliance 

United States, California, San Jose 

349280641

This is a senior individual contributor role, requiring strong product vision, negotiation skills, and cross-functional leadership.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Drives product strategy with cross-functional stakeholders consistent with the shared vision for the product.
• Plans and implements the architectural roadmap that balances innovative design and technical implementation, while balancing regulatory requirements, time-to-market, meeting customer needs and product profitability.
• Assesses the customer experience and customer needs in product requirements and decision making.
• Sets up data gathering mechanisms relative to the metrics that inform the success of products including usability studies, research and market analysis.
• Leads workstreams to include analytics, customer discovery, market research and competitive analysis to drive data-driven decision-making.
• Oversees product profitability measures, including budget.
• Plans operational mechanisms that drive execution and accountability including Product Reviews, Operating Reviews, and Business Reviews. Interfaces with product leadership as needed.
• Partners with 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 12 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Strategic Product Leadership

• Own the product strategy for regulatoryenablement—translatingcomplex legal and policy requirements into scalable solutions.

• Make data-informed trade-offs between compliance, user friction, and business risk.

Build Scalable, Global Systems

• Design modular, reusable systems to meet compliance needs across regions.

• Partner with engineering and architecture to build maintainable, flexible platforms.

Cross-functional Influence & Negotiation

• Align diverse teams—legal, policy, finance, marketing, peer product groups—on shared outcomes.

• Influence senior legal and policy stakeholders toward practical, user- and business-centric decisions.

Execution Excellence

• Lead delivery in partnership with engineering, design, analytics, and data science

• Manage operating rhythms to ensure progress, visibility, and accountability.

Forward-looking Regulatory Planning

• Anticipate regulatory change; keep stakeholders and execs informed to avoid surprises.

Measurement & Optimization

• Define success metrics for adoption, readiness, and impact.

• Track outcomes and adjust strategies based on performance and feedback.

What We’re Looking For

• Proven ability to lead large-scale, cross-functional initiatives.

• Strong communicator with experience influencing senior legal/policy stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in fintech, e-commerce, compliance, or regulated domains.

• Experience building platform/backend systems.

• Exposure to global markets and working with local partners.

• Track record of mentorship and product leadership by influence.

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 $169,500 to $291,500

Our Benefits:

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