Sr. Product Manager 1- Technical

As a Lead Product Manager for Bangalore Developer Platforms and Experiences, this position owns a diverse portfolio of critical services that drive our Developer Community across PayPal including Test Frameworks and Test Platforms, enabling developers to release high quality code to our Customers.

SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER - Bangalore

Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 270 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.

Developer Platforms and Experience (DPX) is the team that powers PayPal’s business. We deliver scalable, efficient and highly reliable infrastructure and services platforms in a hybrid cloud environment to our developer community. We are looking for product leaders who can transform our Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) experience. As a Senior Product Manager in the CI/CD team, you will own a diverse portfolio of critical services that enable our developers to release high quality software to our Customers across all of our brands as quickly as possible.

Responsibilities: This is an internal facing role and that our “customers” are PayPal developers

• Drive the overall vision, roadmap, product features and delivery within your portfolio using technical expertise and background in devops and modern cloud CI/CD platforms

• Balance priorities to deliver on measurable outcomes to increase developer productivity and enable our developers to get PayPal features to our customers quickly and with high quality.

• Ongoing communication and collaboration with senior leaders and customers

• Define and track key performance indicators and outcomes to show progress and results.

• Work cross-functionally with global Business Lines, Engineering, and Design, developing strong relationships that help build trust with key partner teams and our developers.

• Evangelize product roadmap in informal and formal settings

• Run lean experiments to inform future investment area.

• Partner with other product managers, development managers and technical leads across the organization to align strategies, roadmaps, priorities, dependencies, and releases to mitigate risks and issues.

• Actively network with key industry contacts to understand standard methodologies and emerging practices and how they can be used within the company

• Product backlog responsibility to ensure the highest business value is being delivered

• Frequent contact with developers across the globe to validate product functionality and additional needs.

• Produce feature requirement artifacts, such as data flows, process flows, decision trees, state diagrams, and system context diagrams to support the delivery team

• Cultivate a positive team environment where there is a sense of purpose, ideas are heard, and decisions are transparent

Qualifications: 

• Ability to present roadmaps, sophisticated ideas and features to broad teams in an effective manner.

• Self-starter with the ability to take ownership, balance various tasks simultaneously while contributing to a positive work culture.

• Extraordinary verbal communication and written documentation skills are critical for this role.

• Experience working with Kubernetes and modern CI/CD platforms

• Experience in building and delivering platforms that serve a wide variety of use cases at scale

• Experience driving strategy for Platform products in a top tech or payments company. 

• Ability to decompose complex processes into understandable components

• Proven experience working in an agile environment in a Product Owner/Manager role.

• Proven experience in taking a product to market

• Experience operating with a geographically dispersed workforce

• Experience in building large scale CI/CD Platforms and a deep understanding of distributed systems.

• Passion to seek an in-depth understanding of customer needs and turn that insight into a compelling vision and strategy for the product area

• Strong execution and ability to drive work to completion.

• BA/BS in CS required.

Success in this role requires the following:

• Inspiring all levels of the organization with your product vision and customer passion.

• Identifying new opportunities based on research, industry trends and best practices, driving innovation.

• Data driven decision making

• Building a strong product management practice by continually assessing the needs of the customer, market trends and competitive opportunities.

• Motivating a team of product managers and engineers to deliver their best

We're a purpose-driven company whose beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We hold ourselves to our One Team Behaviors which demand that we hold the highest ethical standards, to empower an open and diverse workplace, and strive to treat everyone who is touched by our business with dignity and respect. Our employees challenge the status quo, ask questions, and find solutions. We want to break down barriers to financial empowerment. Join us as we change the way the world defines financial freedom.

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

For more than 20 years, PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 400 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying, or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom, enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected].

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