Drimva

PayPal

Lead Product Manager, Decisioning Platform

$160K–$262K

San Jose, California, United States of America +2 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026

Location
San Jose, California, United States of America
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Experience
5+ years relevant experience; alternatively, any equivalent combination of education and experience.
Education
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.

About the job

Owns strategy, roadmap, and execution for the data pillar of PayPal’s risk decisioning platform, covering data integrations, flows, analytics, and governance.

What you'll do

  • Set product strategy and implement the architectural roadmap with cross-functional stakeholders, balancing customer needs, regulatory requirements, delivery, and profitability.
  • Lead workstreams and execution, including data health metrics, legacy migration, and product reviews with technology and product leadership.
  • Partner with engineering, data science, risk strategy, governance, design, and research teams to deliver scalable platform solutions.

What they ask for

  • 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree, or any equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Experience building or managing data platform products in decisioning, risk, or real-time scoring, including data integration, pipelines, or analytical data layers.
  • Experience integrating external data vendors and managing upstream and downstream data flows across streaming and batch systems.
  • Familiarity with data engineering best practices and data governance in regulated environments.

Nice to have

  • Strong data intuition, including defining and interpreting data health and usage metrics and translating analysis into product decisions.
  • Experience with agile delivery at scale, legacy pipeline migration, cross-team dependencies, and milestone-driven roadmap execution.

Pay

$176,500.00 - $262,350.00 Annually (USD) — base pay; $160,500.00 - $238,700.00 Annually (USD) — base pay

Tools

streaming, batch systems, data contracts, quality SLAs, lineage, access controls

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First seen Oct 30, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)