Senior Product Manager, Developer Tools & Platform

PayPal

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
San Jose, CA
Salary
$143,500–$212,850 / yr
Posted
33 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Mar 23, 2027

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Salary context

Below market

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This role pays less than 72% of similar roles. Most pay $177,250–$223,950 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $178k versus about $201k for comparable roles.

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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 96 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Product Manager, Developer Tools & Platform

The Senior Product Manager, Developer Tools & Platform joins the Developer Experience team to manage the technical foundation for all developer-facing services. This role involves owning the APIs and extensibility contracts that power various client surfaces, including CLI tools, IDE extensions, MCP servers, and the Developer Dashboard. The primary goal is to ensure these surfaces ship on existing API capabilities without requiring custom backend work. Key responsibilities include leading sprint planning, gathering customer insights, and analyzing research to drive data-driven decisions. The ideal candidate possesses a strong engineering background and must be proficient in REST APIs, API design, and versioning. You will manage backward compatibility, release policies, and architecture discussions to remove friction for developers as commerce moves into AI coding assistants and agentic platforms.

What does a Product Manager earn in California?

Median $222500 from 327 postings across 57 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Own the APIs and extensibility contract for all client surfaces including CLI, IDE extensions, and Developer Dashboards.
  • Translate customer experience insights and research into actionable product requirements.
  • Lead sprint planning, daily standups, and retrospectives to drive engineering execution.
  • Analyze research, market analysis, and usability studies to support data-driven decision making.
  • Monitor product profitability measures and manage the product budget.
  • Partner with data scientists, designers, and researchers to identify new platform opportunities.
  • Manage API versioning, backward compatibility, and release policies for developer-facing services.

What we're looking for

  • 3+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Senior or lead-level Technical Product Manager profile with a strong engineering background (preferred).
  • Familiarity with REST APIs, including the ability to read code and reason about API design and versioning.
  • Experience owning an API, platform, or developer-facing service, including backward compatibility and release policy.
  • Deep empathy for developers to understand how they evaluate, adopt, and stick with tools.
  • Ecosystem instincts to identify and justify capabilities or investments that unlock the most value.
  • Excellent communication skills to move fluidly between technical specs, partner conversations, and executive readouts.
  • A bias for shipping a sharp v1 to learn rather than debating a perfect plan (preferred).

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