Senior Lead Product Manager, Risk Decisioning Platform

PayPal

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
San Jose, CAChicago, ILAustin, TX
Salary
$196,500–$333,500 / yr
Posted
11 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Apr 14, 2027

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Above market

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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.

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TL;DR · Senior Lead Product Manager, Risk Decisioning Platform

The Senior Lead Product Manager, Risk Decisioning Platform leads product direction for a risk domain across a portfolio of strategies. You will set the multi-year vision and strategy, deciding where to invest to improve loss reduction, approval rates, and customer experience. Day-to-day responsibilities include moving strategies off legacy systems to full production, launching new strategies, and using experimentation and automation for optimization. You will lead cross-functional pods, mentor other product managers, and represent the domain to executives. Key requirements include deep risk domain expertise in fraud, account integrity, or credit, along with technical fluency in rules, ML models, features, and friction treatments. You must possess strong quantitative skills to interpret risk metrics and experience with champion/challenger tests and staged traffic ramps to balance performance with customer needs.

What you'll do

  • Set the multi-year vision and strategy for the risk domain and next-generation Risk Decisioning Platform.
  • Translate business outcomes like loss reduction and approval rates into actionable product plans.
  • Lead the migration of risk strategies from legacy systems to new production environments.
  • Manage cross-functional pods to execute workstreams including analytics, customer discovery, and market research.
  • Define and interpret key risk metrics such as loss, catch, false positives, and approval rates.
  • Launch new strategies using controlled rollouts, experimentation, and champion/challenger tests.
  • Report product outcomes and domain progress to executive stakeholders.
  • Mentor other product managers and establish repeatable product management practices.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Significant experience building products in fraud, account integrity, credit, or other risk domains (preferred).
  • Track record of setting a multi-year product vision and strategy for a business domain (preferred).
  • Experience leading product for a multi-team risk portfolio and reporting outcomes to executive stakeholders (preferred).
  • Deep knowledge of risk decisions, including rules, ML models, features, and the tradeoff between loss and customer experience (preferred).
  • Strong quantitative skills for defining and interpreting risk metrics like loss, catch, false positive, and approval rates (preferred).
  • Experience launching through controlled rollouts, experimentation, and migrating risk strategies off legacy systems (preferred).
  • Experience mentoring product managers and establishing repeatable product practices (preferred).

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