Sr. Director, Developer Platforms

The Company

PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. 

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.

We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards.  Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade. 

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day.  We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.

Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Sr. Director, Developer Platforms to lead our efforts in empowering external developers who utilize PayPal’s APIs to integrate payment capabilities and other value-added services for their businesses. This role requires a strategic thinker with a deep technical background and a passion for building and nurturing developer communities.

Job Description:

Essential Responsibilities:

• Directs and controls the best practices and procedures within multiple domains within engineering through subordinate leaders
• Develops methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and people across multiple domains and at an enterprise level
• Owns relationship with executives and SLT to drive alignment and the creation of business AND technical objectives that will be executed within their organization
• Responsible for the delivery of high complexity projects/programs with Enterprise impact
• Develops and executes software development strategy to achieve key business and technical objectives which contributes to the development of overall engineering strategy
• Consistently works with abstract ideas or situations across software development and engineering, assessing variables, evaluating fundamental issues, and providing direction for engineering
• Defines organizational roadmap and ensures alignment with PayPal-wide objectives. Sets high level organizational strategy and budget across multiple domains
• Collaborates with direct team, managers in org, stakeholders, managers in other orgs, external partners, business stakeholders, technology & business leadership

Expected Qualifications:

• 12+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5 years of experience leading others

Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications

Additional Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership: 

• Develop and execute a comprehensive strategy for PayPal’s developer platform to increase adoption and engagement. 
• Identify and analyze industry trends to keep the platform competitive and innovative. 

Platform Development: 

• Oversee the design, development, and deployment of APIs, SDKs, and developer tools. 
• Ensure the platform is scalable, reliable, secure, and provides an excellent developer