Program Manager 4

Your Role Overview: You are currently seeking a Program Manager with relevant experience in Agile project management, product launch management, change management, and organizational dynamics for Growth Markets. You will be part of a program management team responsible for planning and delivering end-to-end complex programs that work across product, engineering, multiple other cross-functional teams, and internal and external partners to ensure timely planning, execution, and launch/go-to-market of programs. Key Responsibilities: - Organize and lead planning activities resulting in the creation of a release/program roadmap, ensuring all teams align with enterprise planning expectations. - Define launch strategy for new product capabilities including geographic scope and rollouts, detailed timing, ramp, and analytics plan. - Proactively manage across stakeholder groups to establish interdependencies, identify risks and resource constraints, and eliminate significant roadblocks in a timely fashion. - Exercise smart decision-making and collaborate effectively with other leaders and stakeholders to address key issues and roadblocks aggressively and in a timely fashion. - Ensure measurable KPIs are developed for the program, aligning with the overall KPIs for the product. - Design and manage pilots and beta testing. - Create and manage clear Gating Criteria with business partners for Go/No-go decisions. - Ensure regular, active communication with adjacent programs and external stakeholders, including international regions. - Identify program impediments and address them, including proper escalation to individuals/groups as needed. - Lead program retrospectives and commitment to improvement on a regular cadence. - Advocate and manage program implementation according to PayPal's product lifecycle management. - Maintain awareness of cross-product/program synergies and actively communicate opportunities to simplify or better align work across teams. Qualifications Required: - Overall 12 years of experience and 5 years in program management. - Relevant experience organizing multiple teams delivering on software/product development initiatives required. Agile lifecycle management experience preferred. - Successful track record of managing complex development programs to deliver technical solutions and achieve business results, positively impacting the customer experience. - Proven ability to develop effective, matrixed, cross-organization relationships, collaborating and communicating across business and technology stakeholders and multiple geographies. - Strong technical acumen and strong voice of the customer across the program delivery lifecycle. - Good knowledge of project management process, project management software tools, templates, and management techniques. - Experience with different software development methodologies including the agile development methodology such as Scrum. Additional Company Details: PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years, creating innovative experiences that empower consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. The company operates a global, two-sided network at scale, connecting hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers, providing payment solutions accepted by merchants, enabling safe fund exchanges, and simplifying cross-border shopping. PayPal's core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness guide its daily business practices to ensure a customer-centric approach and community care. Your Role Overview: You are currently seeking a Program Manager with relevant experience in Agile project management, product launch management, change management, and organizational dynamics for Growth Markets. You will be part of a program management team responsible for planning and delivering end-to-end complex programs that work across product, engineering, multiple other cross-functional teams, and internal and external partners to ensure timely planning, execution, and launch/go-to-market of programs. Key Responsibilities: - Organize and lead planning activities resulting in the creation of a release/program roadmap, ensuring all teams align with enterprise planning expectations. - Define launch strategy for new product capabilities including geographic scope and rollouts, detailed timing, ramp, and analytics plan. - Proactively manage across stakeholder groups to establish interdependencies, identify risks and resource constraints, and eliminate significant roadblocks in a timely fashion. - Exercise smart decision-making and collaborate effectively with other leaders and stakeholders to address key issues and roadblocks aggressively and in a timely fashion. - Ensure measurable KPIs are developed for the program, aligning with the overall KPIs for the product. - Design and manage pilots and beta testing. - Create and manage clear Gating Criteria with business partners for Go/No-go d