Platform & API Product Lead — AI, SDKs & GraphQL

PayPal; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 197,000 - 292,000; Full time

Job summary

PayPal is hiring a Lead Product Manager to unify product strategy across Braintree's developer surfaces: mobile SDKs, web SDK, server SDKs, and GraphQL API. You’ll own GraphQL strategy, versioning, deprecation, and schema sign-off while identifying enterprise gaps to inform a real roadmap.

You’ll help executives prioritize roadmaps and shape the AI integration plan as developers move toward LLM-enabled workflows, ensuring sunsetting and migration strategies are clear.

Qualifications

• 8+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

• Drives product strategy with cross-functional stakeholders aligned to the product vision.
• Plans and implements the architectural roadmap balancing innovative design with regulatory, time-to-market, customer needs and profitability.
• Assesses customer experience and needs in product requirements and decision making.
• Sets up data gathering mechanisms for metrics, usability studies, research and market analysis.
• Leads workstreams for analytics, customer discovery, market research and competitive analysis to drive data-driven decisions.
• Oversees product profitability measures including budget.
• Plans operations for execution and accountability with Product Reviews and Operating/Business Reviews.
• Partners with content strategists, data scientists, product designers and UX researchers.
• Maximizes efficiency in a fluid, evolving environment with creative solutions.

Skills

Product strategy

Cross-functional leadership

Data-driven decision making

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

GraphQL

APIs

SDKs

Job description

PayPal is hiring a Lead Product Manager to unify product strategy across Braintree's developer surfaces: mobile SDKs, web SDK, server SDKs, and GraphQL API. You’ll own GraphQL strategy, versioning, deprecation, and schema sign-off while identifying enterprise gaps to inform a real roadmap.

You’ll help executives prioritize roadmaps and shape the AI integration plan as developers move toward LLM-enabled workflows, ensuring sunsetting and migration strategies are clear.