PayPal
Sr Lead Product Manager, Risk Decisioning
$178K–$292K
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
- 8+ years relevant experience; Bachelor’s degree or any equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or any equivalent combination of education and experience.
About the job
Leads product strategy and delivery for a risk domain and portfolio, advancing PayPal’s Risk Decisioning Platform and optimizing risk decisions across loss, approvals, and customer experience.
What you'll do
- Set the domain vision and multi-year strategy with risk strategy leaders; prioritize investments and translate business outcomes into product plans.
- Lead cross-functional delivery, including migrating strategies from legacy systems, launching new strategies, and optimizing through experimentation and automation.
- Track business outcomes, report to executives, shape platform roadmaps, and mentor product managers.
What they ask for
- Significant product-building experience in fraud, account integrity, credit, or another risk domain, partnering with risk strategy leaders.
- Experience setting multi-year product strategy and leading a multi-team risk portfolio with business owners and executive reporting.
- Deep knowledge of risk decisions and tuning, including rules, ML models, features, step-up and friction treatments, and loss/customer-experience tradeoffs.
- Quantitative skills and experience with risk metrics, controlled rollouts and experimentation, platform roadmaps, major platform transitions, and cross-team delivery.
Pay
USD 196,500.00 - 291,500.00 Annually (base salary); USD 178,500.00 - 265,100.00 Annually (base salary)
Tools
rules, ML models
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