Job Summary:This job focuses on owning a defined area of an enterprise data platform that serves as the system of record for customer, session, and transaction data across multiple brands. It involves gathering client and engineering needs to define clear product requirements, and analyzing platform usage, data quality, and performance metrics to guide prioritization. Responsibilities include managing the product roadmap, leading planning, delivery tracking, and retrospectives, and driving client and data migrations from legacy systems to a cloud-native platform. The role includes monitoring platform health, adoption, and budget, and collaborating with engineering, architecture, data governance, privacy, security, and client teams to resolve dependencies and risks. This job is an individual contributor.
Job Description:Essential Responsibilities: - Uses data to build insights on product or platform requirements consistent with the shared vision for the product.
- Gathers insights from the customer experience and customer needs to input to product requirements
- Analyzes research, market analysis and usability studies, research and market analysis to support data-driven decision making
- Monitors product profitability measures, including budget.
- Lead sprint planning, daily standups and retrospectives to drive execution. Interfaces with product and technology leadership as needed.
- Partners with content developers, data scientists, product designers and user experience researchers to identify new opportunities.
Minimum Qualifications:- 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:- 6 or more years of product management experience, including ownership of a data platform, data infrastructure, or developer-facing product at enterprise scale.
- Working knowledge of cloud data architecture, especially Google Cloud Platform. Familiarity with Spanner, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, and change data capture pipelines is preferred.
- Hands-on understanding of data platform concepts such as system of record design, entity resolution, data modeling, federated data architecture, API design (REST, gRPC, GraphQL), and caching and consistency tradeoffs.
- Experience leading large data or system migrations, including cohort-based or phased client onboarding, cutover planning, and legacy decommissioning.
- Experience working with data governance, privacy, and security requirements, including data classification, access control, retention, and regulatory obligations.
- Track record of defining platform metrics such as availability, latency, data quality, adoption, and client satisfaction, and using them to guide decisions.
- Ability to write clear, specific requirements and decision documents that engineering teams can act on without further interpretation.
- Proven ability to influence without authority across engineering, architecture, risk, payments, and business partners.
- Background in payments, fintech, risk, or financial services data is preferred.
- Prior experience as a software engineer, data engineer, or data architect is a plus.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience. Advanced degree preferred.
Subsidiary:PayPal
Travel Percent:0
Visa Sponsorship through PayPal is not available for this position now or any time in the future.
The base pay for this role will depend on where you work and the relevant experience and expertise you bring. The expected range of pay for this role by location is:
Primary Location | Pay Range:San Jose, California: ($143,500.00 - $212,850.00 Annually)
Additional Location(s) | Pay Range:No other locations are assigned to this requisition currently.
Additional compensation for this role may include an annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation, as applicable.
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For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.
Our Benefits:At PayPal, we're committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can't do this without our most important asset-you. That's why we offer comprehensive, choice-based programs, to support all aspects of personal wellbeing-physical, emotional, and financial-delivering meaningful value where it matters most. We strive to create a flexible, balanced work culture with a holistic approach to benefits, including generous paid time off, healthcare coverage for you and your family, and resources to create financial security and support your mental health.
