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PayPal

Senior Lead Product Manager, Risk Decisioning Platform

PayPal

. Drive product strategy with cross-functional stakeholders consistent with the shared product or platform vision .

Posted 10/16/2026full-timeUnited StatesSenior💰 $196,500 - $333,500 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in driving product strategy within risk domains, leveraging strong quantitative skills and experience in leading cross-functional teams to optimize product profitability and customer experience. Proficient in setting multi-year product visions and implementing architectural roadmaps that align with regulatory requirements and market needs.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Product Strategy DevelopmentRisk Domain ExpertiseQuantitative AnalysisCross-Functional LeadershipStakeholder Influence

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Hard Skills
Product Vision SettingRisk Metrics AnalysisData Gathering MechanismsControlled RolloutsPlatform Roadmap ShapingUsability StudiesMarket ResearchCompetitive AnalysisExperimentation TechniquesBudget Management
Soft Skills
MentoringInfluencingCollaborationCommunicationDecision-Making
Industry Keywords
FraudAccount IntegrityCredit RiskRisk StrategyML ModelsCustomer ExperienceProduct ReviewsBusiness ReviewsLegacy SystemsOperational Mechanisms

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Drive product strategy with cross-functional stakeholders consistent with the shared product or platform vision
  • Plan and implement architectural roadmaps balancing innovation, technical implementation, regulatory requirements, time-to-market, customer needs, and profitability
  • Assess customer experience and customer needs in product requirements and decision-making
  • Set up data-gathering mechanisms and success metrics, including usability studies, research, and market analysis
  • Lead analytics, customer discovery, market research, and competitive analysis workstreams
  • Oversee product profitability measures, including budget
  • Plan operational mechanisms such as Product Reviews, Operating Reviews, and Business Reviews
  • Interface with product and technology leadership
  • Partner with content strategists, data scientists, product designers, and user experience researchers
  • Lead product direction for a risk domain across a portfolio of strategies
  • Set the domain vision and multi-year strategy and prioritize investment
  • Move strategies off legacy systems and ramp them to full production
  • Launch new strategies and optimize through experimentation and automation
  • Lead cross-functional pods and track captured savings with business partners
  • Represent the domain to executives and mentor other product managers

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 8+ years relevant experience
  • Bachelor’s degree OR equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Significant experience building products in fraud, account integrity, credit, or other risk domains
  • Experience partnering closely with risk strategy leaders
  • Track record of setting a multi-year product vision and strategy for a business domain
  • Experience leading product for a multi-team risk portfolio alongside business owners
  • Experience reporting outcomes to executive stakeholders
  • Deep knowledge of risk decisions and tuning, including rules, ML models, features, and step-up and friction treatments
  • Strong quantitative skills with risk metrics including loss, catch, false positive, and approval rates
  • Experience with controlled rollouts and experimentation, including champion/challenger tests and staged traffic ramps
  • Experience shaping platform roadmaps for data science, modeling, and platform teams
  • Experience leading major platform transitions, including migrating risk strategies off legacy systems
  • Experience mentoring product managers and establishing repeatable product practices
  • Ability to influence executive stakeholders and drive milestone-based delivery across many teams

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Annual performance bonus
  • Equity or other incentive compensation, as applicable
  • Balanced hybrid work model: 3 days in the office and 2 days at the PayPal office or home workspace
  • Generous paid time off
  • Healthcare coverage for employees and their families
  • Resources supporting financial security
  • Mental health support
  • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities