PayPal
Lead Product Manager, Risk Decisioning Platform – Data
$160K–$300K
San Jose, California, United States of America +2 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 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 the strategy, roadmap, and execution for the data pillar of PayPal’s Risk Decisioning Platform, enabling data to support real-time fraud, credit, and compliance decisions.
What you'll do
- Set product strategy and implement the architectural roadmap, balancing customer needs, technical delivery, and regulatory requirements.
- Lead data platform workstreams, including integrations and data flows, data health, governance, and legacy migration.
- Monitor product metrics and profitability; lead product reviews and collaborate with engineering, data science, risk, and governance teams.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of relevant experience.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Experience building or managing data platform products in decisioning, risk, or real-time scoring, including integrations, pipelines, or analytical data layers.
- Experience integrating external data vendors and managing data flows across streaming and batch systems.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with data governance in regulated environments, including data contracts, quality SLAs, lineage, access controls, and privacy.
- Experience with agile delivery at scale, legacy pipeline migration, cross-team dependencies, and milestone-driven roadmaps.
Pay
$176,500 - $300,500 USD annually (base salary), San Jose, California; $160,500 - $273,500 USD annually (base salary), Austin, Texas; $160,500 - $273,500 USD annually (base salary), Chicago, Illinois
Tools
streaming, batch systems
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