PayPal
Senior Product Manager, Developer Tools & Platform
$144K–$213K
San Jose, California, United States of America · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
About the job
Own the APIs and extensibility platform that powers PayPal developer tools and surfaces, enabling them to build on shared capabilities without custom backend work.
What you'll do
- Use customer, research, market, and product data to shape product and platform requirements.
- Lead sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives, coordinating with product and technology leadership.
- Partner with content, data science, design, and user research teams to identify opportunities.
What they ask for
- Familiarity with REST APIs and ability to read code, reason about API design and versioning, and participate in architecture discussions.
- Experience owning an API, platform, or developer-facing service, including backward compatibility and release policy.
Nice to have
- Strong engineering background in a senior- or lead-level Technical Product Manager role.
- Developer empathy, ecosystem judgment, excellent communication, and a bias for shipping.
Pay
USD 143,500.00–212,850.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
REST APIs, CLI, IDE extensions, MCP servers, Developer Dashboard
AI focus
Make PayPal easy to use on AI coding assistants and agentic platforms.
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