Senior Product Manager - SDK

PayPal - Austin, TX

Full-time - Senior

Austin, TX

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About the position

The Senior Product Manager at PayPal Braintree will focus on enhancing Developer Experiences by creating integration solutions for no-code and low-code products. This role involves developing strategies for upgrades and support, optimizing the developer's integration journey, and advocating for developers' needs within the organization.

Responsibilities

• Develop the vision, strategy, and roadmap for future investments in developer products.
• Interact with developers and translate their needs into product requirements.
• Define key product indicators and success metrics for developer products.
• Partner closely with the User Experience team to build robust experiences and bring strong UX acumen.
• Partner closely with the User Research team to help define and test hypotheses to uncover the developer journey and pain points.
• Manage stakeholders through communication strategies.
• Partner with cross-functional teams such as Product Marketing, Platform Engineering, User Experience, and User Research teams to define and ship developer products.
• Partner with the engineering team to ship functionality that delights users, has the right balance of impact vs engineering cost and makes a measurable impact on the business.
• Validate experiences and product prototypes with early adopters.
• Work closely with developer relations & product marketing to launch new features and drive product awareness and adoption.

Requirements

• Deep empathy for developers and care about challenges a developer may face during their journey to build the right product strategy.
• Experience delivering low-code solutions with self-service capabilities for developers.
• Knowledgeable of the tools and processes development teams use to develop, build, and test integrations.
• Map a developer's journey, translate challenges into a roadmap, and execute with precision and transparency.
• Understand how SDKs and APIs are used to integrate products in sandbox and production environments.
• Cultivate a strong understanding of developer needs by being part of the developer community.
• Ship functionality after you've personally test-driven it and you can edit technical documentation required for product releases.
• Engage with a cross-section of developers and/or internal developer-facing teams to build a business case to continuously evolve the build/upgrade integration experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 6+ years of Product Management experience.
• Fluency in English.
• Links to your blog or your profile in online communities like GitHub, Stack Overflow etc are a plus.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment
• Employee shares options
• Health insurance
• Life insurance