Lead Product Manager, Regulatory Compliance

About the position

We’re hiring a Lead Product Manager to drive PayPal’s regulatory product strategy—ensuring compliance across key markets without compromising customer experience or business outcomes. You’ll lead complex, high-impact programs that bring together legal, policy, engineering, and design to build scalable solutions that protect our license to operate and deliver customer value. This is a senior individual contributor role, requiring strong product vision, negotiation skills, and cross-functional leadership.

Responsibilities

• Drives product strategy with cross-functional stakeholders consistent with the shared vision for the product.
• Plans and implements the architectural roadmap that balances innovative design and technical implementation, while balancing regulatory requirements, time-to-market, meeting customer needs and product profitability.
• Assesses the customer experience and customer needs in product requirements and decision making.
• Sets up data gathering mechanisms relative to the metrics that inform the success of products including usability studies, research and market analysis.
• Leads workstreams to include analytics, customer discovery, market research and competitive analysis to drive data-driven decision-making.
• Oversees product profitability measures, including budget.
• Plans operational mechanisms that drive execution and accountability including Product Reviews, Operating Reviews, and Business Reviews.
• Interfaces with product leadership as needed.
• Partners with content strategists, data scientists, product designers and user experience researchers.
• Maximizes efficiency in a constantly evolving environment where the process is fluid and creative solutions are the standard.

Requirements

• Minimum of 12 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Background in fintech, e-commerce, compliance, or regulated domains.
• Experience building platform/backend systems.
• Exposure to global markets and working with local partners.
• Track record of mentorship and product leadership by influence.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment
• Employee shares options
• Health and life insurance
• Annual performance bonus
• Equity