Lead Product Manager, Risk Decisioning

PayPal

Confirmed live yesterday High trust
Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
San Jose, CAChicago, ILAustin, TX
Salary
$176,500–$262,350 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Apr 27, 2027

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About PayPal

PayPal is a leading global digital wallet and online payment system, founded in 1998, that allows individuals and businesses to send, receive, and manage funds securely in over 200 markets.

PayPal currently has 98 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Lead Product Manager, Risk Decisioning

The Lead Product Manager, Risk Decisioning joins the risk domain team to lead product direction across a portfolio of risk strategies. This role involves setting the domain vision and roadmap, turning outcomes like loss reduction and approval rates into actionable product plans. You will define requirements for rules, models, data, and customer treatments while shaping the next-generation Risk Decisioning Platform. Key responsibilities include migrating strategies off legacy systems, launching new strategies, and utilizing experimentation and automation for optimization. You will collaborate with data science, modeling, and engineering teams to track performance and captured savings. The role requires deep risk domain expertise, technical fluency, and the ability to interpret risk metrics such as false positives and catch rates to balance security with a seamless customer experience.

What you'll do

  • Set the product vision and roadmap for a risk domain portfolio to reduce loss and improve approval rates.
  • Define requirements for risk strategies including rules, machine learning models, data needs, and customer treatments.
  • Migrate risk strategies from legacy systems to a next-generation Risk Decisioning Platform.
  • Translate business needs into clear technical requirements for data science, modeling, and engineering teams.
  • Launch new strategies using controlled rollouts, experimentation, and champion/challenger tests.
  • Monitor product performance metrics including usability, market analysis, and profitability measures.
  • Represent the risk domain in product and steering committee reviews with senior business stakeholders.
  • Manage workstreams for analytics, customer discovery, and competitive analysis to drive data-driven decisions.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Experience building products in fraud, account integrity, credit, or other risk domains in partnership with risk strategy teams (preferred).
  • Track record of setting a multi-year product vision and roadmap, balancing near-term delivery with longer-term bets (preferred).
  • Working knowledge of how risk decisions are made and tuned, including rules, ML models, features, and friction treatments (preferred).
  • Strong quantitative skills for defining and interpreting risk metrics and connecting product changes to business impact (preferred).
  • Experience launching through controlled rollouts and experimentation, including champion/challenger tests and staged traffic ramps (preferred).
  • Experience translating business needs into clear asks for data science, modeling, and platform teams (preferred).
  • Experience leading major platform transitions, such as migrating risk strategies off legacy systems (preferred).

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