PayPal is looking to solve the problem of developing methods and evaluation criteria for projects, aligning business opportunities with technical innovations, and delivering long-term impactful results, while navigating unprecedented situations and reconciling complex situations.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a significant portion in a senior technical leadership role
- Successful experience designing large-scale software systems, particularly in complex, multi-stakeholder environments, and a track record of delivering strategic outcomes via incremental, risk-managed milestones
- Experience mentoring engineers and fostering technical talent across an organization
- Ideally, experience with large-scale iOS, Android and web applications; personalization, experimentation and performance optimization; advertising and marketing technologies; feature engineering, ML/AI model development & operation
- Strong communication skills (written, verbal, and visual), with a proven ability to translate technical topics for a diverse audience
- Creativity, pragmatism and empathy; technology and business are full of puzzles, and grand visions are realized in steps, by humans, so success in this role requires both technical and interpersonal savviness
- A love of technology and a growth mindset
Responsibilities
- Develops the methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and people
- Guides the business by aligning business opportunities with technical innovations
- Delivers results that have long-term effect on PayPal’s success
- Navigates unprecedented situations and sets “new norms” that integrate technology, business and personnel factors
- Anticipates risks, trends & opportunities marketplace, and identifies and strategic solutions
- Reconciles situations without a “right answer,” selecting the compromises the business can most afford
- Acts as a leader and visionary, by inspiring, steering, and driving other leaders towards a compelling goal
Other
- 12+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience
- Collaborates with senior leadership on strategic decisions
- Collaborate with business and engineering leaders to define product visions and translate them into actionable technical roadmaps
- Act as a mentor and coach, helping to develop technical leadership across the organization
- Must be able to work in a hybrid work model with 3 days in the office and 2 days at home
