PayPal
Sr Lead Product Manager
$178K–$292K
San Jose, California, United States of America +2 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, California, United States of America
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Austin, Texas, United States of America - Experience
- 8+ 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 a risk decisioning platform pillar supporting real-time fraud, credit, and compliance decisions.
What you'll do
- Set platform strategy and architectural roadmap, balancing customer needs, technical delivery, profitability, and regulatory requirements.
- Translate measurable outcomes into product specifications; track platform health and lead experimentation, rule governance, and legacy migration.
- Coordinate cross-functional work and lead product reviews and steering committee updates.
What they ask for
- 8+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree, or any equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Strong technical foundation in scaled platforms, such as recommendation engines, real-time inference systems, or ML/AI infrastructure.
Nice to have
- Experience in decisioning, recommendation engines, or real-time scoring; familiarity with feature stores, inference pipelines, rule engines, or A/B experimentation.
- Track record of platform adoption across internal teams, strong data intuition, and experience with agile delivery at scale.
Pay
($196,500.00 - $291,500.00 Annually) USD base salary; ($178,500.00 - $265,100.00 Annually) USD base salary; ($178,500.00 - $265,100.00 Annually) USD base salary
Tools
feature stores, real-time inference pipelines, rule engines, A/B experimentation frameworks
AI focus
Product management for real-time ML/AI and decisioning infrastructure used in fraud, credit, and compliance decisions.
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