Senior Lead Product Manager, Risk Decisioning Platform
Core
Lead product direction for a risk domain across a portfolio of strategies, setting vision and multi-year strategy to optimize loss reduction, approval rates, and customer experience for PayPal's global commerce network.
Role type
Senior Lead Product Manager (Risk Decisioning Platform)
Builds
Next-generation Risk Decisioning Platform and risk strategies for merchants and consumers
Domain
Fintech / Payments / Risk Management
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Risk domain expertise (fraud, account integrity, credit), multi-year product strategy, cross-functional leadership, executive stakeholder management, quantitative risk metrics analysis, platform roadmap planning, legacy system migration, experimentation design, team mentoring
Preferred skills
Deep knowledge of risk decisioning mechanics (rules, ML models, features, step-up treatments), controlled rollout execution, platform transition leadership
Technologies
Risk Decisioning Platform, ML models, rules engines, experimentation frameworks
Responsibilities
Set domain vision and multi-year strategy; plan architectural roadmap balancing innovation, regulation, and time-to-market; assess customer experience and needs; lead workstreams for analytics, discovery, and competitive analysis; oversee product profitability and budget; plan operational mechanisms for execution; partner with data scientists and designers; mentor product managers; influence executive stakeholders
Seniority
Senior Lead, hands-on IC with strategic scope