Technical Product Manager Lead

PayPal

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
San Jose, CA
Salary
$218,000–$323,950 / yr
Posted
8 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Mar 20, 2027

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $192k
This role $271k
$127k most similar roles pay here $345k

This role pays more than 98% of similar roles. Most pay $163,000–$221,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $271k versus about $192k 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 71 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $160,500–$238,700 across 71 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Technical Product Manager Lead

Technical Product Manager Lead: This role involves setting the product vision and strategy for Developer Platform Engineering, overseeing critical infrastructure including CI/CD, developer frameworks, observability, test infrastructure, developer tooling, and the developer portal. You will lead a team of Technical Product Managers to integrate roadmaps into a single cohesive strategy while resolving cross-domain trade-offs and presenting to CTO-level stakeholders. The position requires balancing architectural judgment with disciplined execution to meet regulatory requirements and improve developer experience metrics like Core4 and DORA. Key responsibilities include managing vendor contracts, driving SDLC policy standardization, and championing agentic AI adoption across the software development lifecycle. You will manage a large, federated engineering organization of over 10,000 internal engineers, focusing on building scalable platform solutions that streamline planning, building, testing, and releasing within a complex, regulated environment.

What you'll do

  • Establish a cohesive product vision and strategy for Developer Platform Engineering across CI/CD, infrastructure, and tooling.
  • Lead a team of Technical Product Managers by managing their roadmaps, coaching them, and building a succession bench.
  • Integrate cross-domain roadmaps into a single strategy while resolving trade-offs between innovation, regulatory requirements, and cost.
  • Drive the adoption of agentic AI tools to reshape planning, building, testing, and releasing within the SDLC.
  • Track developer experience using DORA metrics and other data points to drive platform excellence and prioritize requirements.
  • Manage vendor and contract strategies for platform tooling, including high-stakes build-vs-buy decisions and migrations.
  • Standardize engineering workstreams such as SDLC policies, library governance, and quality gates across the organization.
  • Present technical platform strategies to CTO-level stakeholders by translating complex infrastructure into business and risk language.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Experience managing and developing product managers into high-performing operators while scaling teams through organizational change (preferred).
  • Proven track record architecting and leading agentic AI adoption strategy at an organizational level (preferred).
  • Experience operating in regulated environments where audit findings and compliance frameworks shape the roadmap (preferred).
  • Track record of vendor and contract management at scale, including high-stakes renewals and platform migrations (preferred).
  • Broad technical fluency across the full SDLC toolchain, from source control to deployment pipelines (preferred).
  • Proven experience presenting to CTO-level audiences and translating platform strategy into business and risk language (preferred).
  • Experience managing a platform on a meaningful scale, serving a 10,000+ internal engineering population (preferred).

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