PayPal
Lead Product Manager, Risk Decisioning
$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.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or any equivalent combination of education and experience.
About the job
Leads product vision and roadmap for a risk domain, moving risk strategies onto the next-generation decisioning platform and optimizing them for loss reduction, approval rates, and customer experience.
What you'll do
- Set product direction and define requirements for risk strategies, including rules, models, data, and customer treatments.
- Lead migrations from legacy systems, launch strategies through controlled rollouts, and optimize using experimentation and automation.
- Partner with risk, data science, modeling, and engineering teams to monitor performance, savings, and delivery.
What they ask for
- Experience building products in fraud, account integrity, credit, or other risk domains with risk strategy teams.
- Track record setting a multi-year product vision and roadmap.
- Strong quantitative skills in risk metrics, opportunity sizing, and business impact.
- Experience with controlled rollouts and experimentation, including champion/challenger tests and staged traffic ramps.
Nice to have
- Experience leading major platform transitions while protecting performance.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive milestone-based delivery across multiple teams.
Pay
USD 176,500.00 - 262,350.00 annually (base pay); USD 160,500.00 - 238,700.00 annually (base pay)
Tools
rules, ML models, features
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