PayPal currently has 19 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Sr Machine Learning Engineer (6), Director, Director, ML Engineering & Agentic Systems, Director, Product Management, Lead Product Manager – Risk Decisioning Platform, Machine Learning Engineer. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
PayPal's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (37%), application (26%), data (21%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
PayPal is hiring AI talent in: United States (16 roles), Ireland (3 roles).
Job postings at PayPal most frequently mention: scikit-learn, Machine Learning, TensorFlow, Statistics, Spark.
In the past 30 days, PayPal has posted 15 new AI-related roles.
PayPal currently has 26 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 46%, are focused on agents, with serving infrastructure and data roles also representing significant portions. Engineering is the primary function for these hires, with the United States being the dominant hiring country. Frequent tech tags include model_serving, agent_orchestration, and inference_infra. In the last 30 days, PayPal has posted 12 new AI roles, representing a 500% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 20 active AI roles, down 49% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $118k–$359k (avg $241k).
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| Manager, Fin Crime and Fraud, AMLA oversight Manager role focused on financial crime and fraud, specifically Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter-Terrorist Financing (CTF) oversight within PayPal's European operations. The role involves enhancing risk assessment and mitigation, ensuring compliance with EU regulations (AMLA, AMLR, AMLD, EUID), supporting new product assessments, and developing metrics to track compliance maturity. It requires strong analytical, communication, and project management skills in a dynamic regulatory environment. | — | 0 |
| Emerging SMB Outbound Sales – UK Market This role focuses on outbound sales for PayPal's SMB market in the UK, driving net-new merchant acquisition and owning the full sales cycle to generate revenue. It involves demand generation, negotiation, pipeline management, and collaboration with internal teams. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Manager, Compliance – Credit Risk & Fair Lending Senior Manager, Compliance role at PayPal focusing on Credit Risk and Fair Lending oversight within the Second Line of Defense. The role requires subject matter expertise in regulatory requirements (ECOA/Reg B, FHA, UDAAP, FCRA, HMDA) and providing independent risk assessment and advisory support for consumer credit products and decisioning frameworks. Key responsibilities include evaluating new products, model changes, and business initiatives for regulatory and fair lending risk, providing second-line oversight of AI- and model-driven credit decisioning, and partnering with Data Science and Model Risk to assess disparate treatment and impact risk. Experience with AI/ML models in financial services, model governance, and responsible AI standards is preferred. |
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| Global & Strategic Portfolio Account Manager This role is for a Global & Strategic Portfolio Account Manager at PayPal, focusing on managing merchant relationships, supporting account managers, identifying growth opportunities, and ensuring seamless onboarding and product adoption. The role involves operational tasks, strategic account planning, sales cycle support, contract negotiation, revenue retention, and acting as a trusted advisor to merchants. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer at PayPal focused on designing and scaling the Promotions Platform, which powers rewards, incentives, and loyalty programs. The role involves defining and driving the technical architecture strategy, ensuring platform evolution, and collaborating with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical decisions for a global, large-scale financial services product. | — | 0 |
| Customer Success Manager This role focuses on developing strategic engagement plans, facilitating workshops, creating communication strategies, acting as a subject matter expert, leading discussions on market trends, designing comprehensive solutions, overseeing resolution processes, and building strong client relationships within the fintech domain. The primary goal is to enhance client satisfaction and identify tailored growth opportunities. | — | 0 |
| Staff Data Scientist This role focuses on designing and implementing advanced data science models to support business needs within PayPal, a global fintech company. The responsibilities include leading data science projects, developing and maintaining data models and algorithms, analyzing complex datasets for insights, collaborating with cross-functional teams, ensuring data quality, and mentoring junior data scientists. The role requires a Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of relevant experience. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Risk Management Manager, Risk Management at PayPal in Mexico City. This role focuses on identifying risk management issues, leading projects to enhance risk assessment and mitigation, collaborating with teams on business trends, improving processes, and guiding team members. Key responsibilities include supporting second-line oversight of the Risk and Compliance Management Program, ensuring alignment with global frameworks and Mexican regulatory requirements (Banxico, Condusef, CNBV), assisting with regulatory compliance, developing controls, executing risk assessments, monitoring, issue management, policy development, and providing guidance on new product initiatives. The role also involves reviewing application controls, assessing data flows and system interfaces, evaluating system architecture with technology teams, performing data-driven testing, and coordinating audits. Requires deep knowledge of financial institutions, payments compliance, regulatory experience, and strong stakeholder management skills. | — | 0 |
| Sr Manager, Software Engineering Senior Manager to lead Venmo Search & Feed teams, driving the development of world-class mobile applications, services, and APIs. Responsible for overseeing engineering teams, ensuring timely delivery of innovative solutions, setting operational targets, and creating roadmaps for multiple scrum teams. Focuses on user-facing products within the fintech domain. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Software Engineering Manager for a software engineering team at PayPal focused on the Venmo Checkout Growth funnel, aiming to increase user adoption and repeat usage. The role involves leading engineers, defining technical strategy, running experiments, and collaborating with marketing and partnerships to drive key business metrics. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Director of Growth/GTM, Crypto Senior Director of Growth/GTM for Crypto at PayPal, focusing on driving revenue growth, leading negotiations, developing business strategy, influencing product outcomes, and collaborating with product and engineering teams to maximize market expansion opportunities. This role is primarily focused on business strategy and partnerships within the fintech domain. | — | 0 |
| Sr Account Representative, Small & Medium Business This is a sales role focused on acquiring, managing, and expanding relationships with small and medium-sized merchants for PayPal's payment solutions. The role involves influencing process quality and efficiency, determining appropriate actions, and recommending solutions using analytical skills. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer - iOS Staff Software Engineer for PayPal's Pay with Venmo iOS experience, focusing on checkout flows, app switching, vaulting, and account linking. This is a hands-on individual contributor role driving architecture, code delivery, cross-team initiatives, and mentoring. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer Staff Software Engineer for PayPal's Braintree open-source iOS and Android SDKs, focusing on API design, feature development, reliability, security, and ease of integration for developers building payment solutions into mobile apps. | — | 0 |
| Principal Mobile Architect Principal Mobile Architect at PayPal, focusing on leading the design, development, and implementation of mobile applications across multiple platforms. Requires deep understanding of cross-platform and native mobile development, strong leadership, and passion for building high-quality, user-friendly mobile experiences. Will shape mobile strategy and drive innovation. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, China MLRO Senior Manager, China MLRO role within PayPal's Market Compliance Oversight team, focusing on the China AML/CTF program. Responsibilities include policy development, stakeholder collaboration, risk assessment, and ensuring compliance with local and global regulations. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Golang) Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and evolving the core platform for PayPal's Kubernetes fleet. Responsibilities include designing and implementing cloud-agnostic cluster lifecycle workflows, improving observability, security, and operational efficiency using technologies like Go and eBPF, and driving modernization of the cloud stack. The role involves diagnosing and resolving complex production issues and collaborating with various teams to deliver platform capabilities. | — | 0 |
| Global Developer Community Manager This role focuses on managing and scaling PayPal's global developer community through events, programs, and experiences. It involves partnering with various teams like Developer Relations, Marketing, Product, and Communications to foster connections, drive awareness, and encourage adoption of PayPal's platforms. The role emphasizes creativity, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement in developer engagement. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Software Engineer, Android Senior Software Engineer role focused on delivering complete solutions across the entire Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), advising management, and guiding junior engineers. Requires strong technical decision-making based on internal conventions and industry best practices. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Director, Consumer XD, Shop and Earn This role is for a Sr. Director of Consumer Experience Design at PayPal, focusing on leading teams that drive personalized commerce for discovery and engagement, and evolve the loyalty ecosystem. The role involves setting strategy, building and leading design teams, overseeing execution of multi-surface experiences, and elevating the design organization and culture. It requires extensive experience in digital product design and leadership. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Account Representative, Small & Medium Business This role focuses on managing and expanding relationships with small and medium-sized merchants, influencing process quality and efficiency, and determining appropriate solutions within PayPal's commerce platform. It involves analytical skills and judgment to recommend best solutions and influence through defined processes. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Software Engineer, IOS Senior Software Engineer role focused on iOS development for PayPal's consumer-facing platform. The role involves delivering complete solutions across the SDLC, translating designs into interfaces, integrating APIs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to create cohesive user experiences. Experience with interactive, feed-based, or social mobile experiences at scale is preferred. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer - Backend Python Staff Software Engineer - Backend Python at PayPal, focusing on leading backend system design and architecture for a large-scale fintech platform. This role involves coordinating engineers, defining technical tasks, improving processes, and representing the company externally. Requires expertise in Python, cloud-native solutions, microservices, fault-tolerant systems, and security practices. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer IOS Staff Software Engineer for iOS at PayPal, focusing on developing and maintaining large-scale consumer-facing mobile applications. Responsibilities include project leadership, technical task determination, improving existing structures, making technical decisions, collaborating with management on standards, and representing the company externally. Requires strong Swift, multi-threaded/asynchronous coding, GraphQL/REST API consumption, testing best practices, and knowledge of design patterns like MVC/MVVM. | — | 0 |
| Cyber Reliability & Resilience Manager This role is a senior governance, risk, and controls position within PayPal's PCIS / ICR team, focusing on ensuring compliance with the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and other European regulatory frameworks. The Manager will oversee digital operational resilience, cyber risk management, and regulatory compliance, acting as a strategic bridge between local obligations and enterprise technology/security operations. Responsibilities include defining risk mitigation strategies, leading initiatives, managing a team, and overseeing BCM, DR, and cyber resilience controls. | — | 0 |
| Large Merchant Sales Intern This is an internship role within PayPal's Large Enterprise Account Management team, focusing on supporting account managers in executing merchant priorities. The intern will help remove blockers, prepare merchant-facing materials, assist with process mapping, pull data for business cases, and participate in merchant calls and strategy sessions. The role emphasizes clock speed and efficiency in driving merchant value. | — | 0 |
| Manager, SPEI Operator Manager for the SPEI Operator team at PayPal, responsible for overseeing the management, monitoring, and supervision of transactions through the Interbank Electronic Payment System (SPEI) in Mexico. The role ensures proper execution, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency, focusing on security, continuity, and stability of operations. Key responsibilities include leading a team, monitoring performance, ensuring compliance with Bank of Mexico and CNBV regulations, managing operational incidents, and generating reports. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Software Engineering This is a Manager, Software Engineering role at PayPal. The primary focus is on managing software development projects, implementing processes, ensuring project delivery, analyzing technical issues, and collaborating with stakeholders. The role involves leading individual contributors and project teams, driving operational rigor, and communicating technical issues to non-technical audiences. While the company operates in the AI space, this specific role is not directly involved in building or shipping AI/ML models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Sr Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer at PayPal focused on building and delivering complete solutions across the SDLC for the Venmo Payments Engineering team. The role involves guiding junior engineers, making technical decisions, and owning the performance and availability of services within a fast-paced, high-scale payments platform. Requires strong experience in backend systems, distributed services, cloud platforms (AWS), and infrastructure as code. | — | 0 |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer Senior Site Reliability Engineer focused on the reliability, performance, and availability of PayPal's global mobile and backend systems. This role involves implementing reliability standards, building automation, and enhancing observability across the stack, bridging the gap between clients and backend services. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Merchant Lending SMB Sales Manager, Merchant Lending SMB Sales at PayPal. This role focuses on leading a quota-carrying sales team to achieve revenue targets, with a portion dedicated to partnering cross-functionally to improve merchant adoption of lending solutions. Requires strong performance management, coaching, and experience in financial services/fintech. | — | 0 |
| Sr Staff Software Engineer Senior Staff Software Engineer at PayPal, focusing on engineering roles within the fintech domain. The role involves making technical decisions affecting multiple teams, establishing conventions, managing resources, and partnering with product management to ideate solutions. The position emphasizes technical leadership, communication with non-technical audiences, and spreading knowledge within the engineering team. The role is not directly AI/ML focused but operates within a company that leverages technology for global commerce. | — | 0 |
| Sr Manager, Commercial Operations Seller Experience This role is for a Sr. Manager of Commercial Operations focused on Seller Experience at PayPal. The primary responsibility is to lead projects that improve sales operations and seller workflows, leveraging AI where possible to enhance productivity and simplify processes. The role involves analyzing business trends, implementing new methods, coordinating global teams, and mentoring managers. While AI is mentioned as a tool to be leveraged, the core function of the role is operational improvement and process management within a sales context, not the direct development or research of AI models. | — | 0 |
| Sr Auditor, Internal Audit Sr Auditor, Internal Audit role at PayPal focused on executing audit assignments, drafting reports, tracking issue closures, and evaluating compliance with global regulations and enterprise standards. This is a fixed-term contract for maternity coverage. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer - iOS Staff Software Engineer for the Venmo iOS app, focusing on commerce experiences. This role will guide technical direction, influence patterns, tooling, and quality across mobile, working with product designers, Android, and backend engineers. | — | 0 |
| Sr iOS Engineer Senior iOS Engineer at PayPal in Stockholm, focused on creating seamless payment experiences for businesses and customers. The role involves delivering complete solutions across the SDLC in a cross-functional, agile environment, guiding junior engineers, and making technical decisions based on best practices. Requires 3+ years of iOS development experience with Swift, familiarity with iOS SDK, SwiftUI, architectural patterns, CI/CD, and testing. | — | 0 |
| iOS Developer PayPal is seeking an iOS Developer to join their Business Experience team in Stockholm. This role involves building modern digital products that improve lives and empower businesses worldwide, working in a cross-functional, agile environment to deliver high-quality increments. The position requires 3+ years of relevant experience in iOS development with Swift, familiarity with iOS SDK, SwiftUI, architectural patterns like MVVM, and CI/CD pipelines. | — | 0 |
| Sr Manager, Data Science This role at PayPal focuses on designing and implementing advanced data science models to support business needs within the fintech domain. The Sr. Manager will lead complex data science projects, develop advanced models and algorithms, collaborate with leadership, implement best practices, ensure data governance, and mentor junior scientists. While the role involves data science, it is not core AI/ML model building but rather applying data science to business problems. | — | 0 |
| Sr Dir, PayPal USA Commercial Leader This role is for a Sr Director of PayPal USA Commercial Leader responsible for developing and executing strategic and commercial initiatives to drive revenue growth and market share for PayPal's consumer financial products. The role involves identifying and cultivating strategic partnerships, leading negotiations, developing business strategy, influencing product roadmaps, and overseeing marketing campaigns and go-to-market strategies. It requires strong business acumen, strategic planning, market analysis, and leadership skills within the fintech domain. | — | 0 |
| Sr Manager, Accounting This role is for a Sr. Manager, Accounting at PayPal in Tokyo, Japan. The primary responsibilities include accurate and timely statutory reporting, tax compliance, and overseeing the end-to-end month-end close process. The role requires strong expertise in Japanese accounting standards and US GAAP differences, experience with regulated entities, and bilingual proficiency in Japanese and English. | — | 0 |
| Senior Lead Product Manager - Venmo Senior Lead Product Manager for Venmo, focusing on building new two-sided ecosystems and commerce experiences. Requires strong 0 to 1 product development skills, strategy definition, and ability to move fast with conviction. Role involves driving product strategy, planning architectural roadmaps, assessing customer experience, setting up data gathering mechanisms, leading analytics and market research, overseeing product profitability, and partnering with various cross-functional teams. | — | 0 |
| Specialist, Contract Administration This role focuses on contract administration, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory standards, and improving contract workflows. It involves reviewing, revising, and executing contracts, as well as providing guidance to stakeholders on contract requirements. | — | 0 |
| Sr Staff Experience Designer Senior Staff Experience Designer focused on evolving PayPal's design system, including visual language, interaction patterns, and storytelling, to ensure seamless, intuitive, and brand-aligned customer experiences across platforms. This role requires strong systems thinking, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and mentoring junior designers. | — | 0 |
| Principal Experience Designer Principal Experience Designer at PayPal, focusing on establishing business or technical strategy for user experience initiatives, influencing executive decision-making, and leading the development of user-centered design strategies for digital and physical products and services within the fintech domain. | — | 0 |
| Principal Experience Designer Principal Experience Designer at PayPal, focusing on establishing business or technical strategy for user experience initiatives, influencing executive decision-making, and leading the development of user-centered design strategies for digital and physical products and services within the fintech domain. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Director of Design, Identity & Trust The Sr. Director of Experience Design, Identity & Trust, will lead the design strategy and execution for PayPal’s authentication, account security, and privacy experiences. This role oversees a global team focused on building seamless, secure, and trustworthy interactions, from login and passwordless authentication to protecting accounts from fraud and providing intuitive privacy controls. The position requires strong leadership, strategic vision, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders within a large, global fintech organization. | — | 0 |
| Resilience and Business Continuity Manager This role focuses on managing business continuity, incident reporting, and regulatory compliance within PayPal's UK regulated entity. It involves ensuring operational resilience, collaborating with stakeholders, and maintaining corporate records, with a strong emphasis on meeting legal and regulatory requirements. | — | 0 |
| Director, Experience Design Director of Experience Design at PayPal, focusing on establishing business or technical strategy for user experience initiatives, influencing executive decision-making, and leading the development of user-centered design strategies. The role involves analyzing user feedback, allocating resources, and mentoring junior designers. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer - Backend Python Staff Software Engineer at PayPal focusing on backend Python development within the Venmo team. The role involves delivering complete solutions across the SDLC, acting as a technical leader, mentoring junior engineers, and ensuring the robustness and resilience of payment backend services. Responsibilities include code and design reviews, collaborating with product managers, owning service performance and availability, and participating in on-call rotations. | — | 0 |
| Sr Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis FP&A Analyst supporting Transaction Loss FP&A activities including budgeting, forecasting, maintaining reserve adequacy models, and providing transparency on transaction loss trends. Requires financial modeling, quantitative analysis, and collaboration with Risk and Business units. Focus on innovation and automation of existing models. | — | 0 |