Product Owner

Who we are

 

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 392 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.

 

When applying for a job you are required to create an account, if you have already created an account - click Sign In.

Creating an account will allow you to follow the progress of your applications. Our system does have some requirements that will help us process your application, below are some guidelines for creation of your account:

• Provide full legal First Name/Family Name – this is important for us to ensure our future hires have the right system set up.
• Please Capitalize first letter of your First and Last Name.
• Please avoid using fully capitalized text for your First and/or Last Name.
• NOTE: If your name is hyphenated or has multiple capitalization, please use the same format as your government ID.

Job Description Summary:

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 250 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.

Job Description:

The FX team is seeking an experienced Product Manager to help drive the FX platform roadmap. In this role, you will work closely with business unit counterparts, product functional teams, engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders globally to develop requirements that provide high-quality products. You will enable PayPal to build, refine and scale payment experiences to shape the future of payments!

Responsibilities

• Drive innovation, ideation discussions with partners, product requirements definition, deliverables planning and execution.
• Ensure product vision and requirements are defined globally, with long-term and scale in mind.
• Make tradeoff decisions based on technical and business insights.
• Write clear, detailed and thorough specifications and user stories for complex features, functionality and products.
• Collaborate with a massive global team across Product Management, Engineering, the PMO, and different business functions to ensure fluid integration of Pricing & FX features and alignment with related go-to-market activities.
• Participate in the QA process to ensure the final product meets the business design.
• Clearly solicit feedback and distill vision, strategy, product benefits, and results to our internal customers.
• Monitor impact of product features and key metrics.
• Troubleshoot product issues and answer product questions – be a Pricing & FX Product ‘expert’.

Job Requirements

• Experience in Pricing, Billing in an Internet application, Payments, e-Commerce or Online Banking is ideal.
• Experience working on technical API definitions and platform product management is desired
• Experience with Agile development as a product owner for a scrum team, design thinking, and customer-centric approach is preferred.
• "Driving capabilities" - taking initiative, persevering through challenges, constantly pushing toward clarity and delivery while balancing the need for great collaboration, driving consensus and delivering in a matrix organization with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong writing skills and ability to converse with technical and non-technical personnel fluently, articulating complex business factors, progress, issues and recommendations in a concise manner to all levels and functions.
• Strong analytical ability, attention to detail, and data-driven decision-making ability.
• The ability to work in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment, handling multiple priorities concurrently with minimal guidance is a must.
• A deep desire to grow and learn and passion for PayPal’s vision to democratize money.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Strong technical product skills.
• 8+ years of experience with general technology product management.
• 5+ years of experience with service-oriented architecture and Agile development methodologies.
• 3+ years experience in FX, Pricing, Billing applications or Internet-related, e-commerce experience required.
• Bachelors degree in a technical discipline, MBA a plus.

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

0

Primary Location:

Austin, Texas, United States of America

Additional Locations:

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. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected].