Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PayPay is a FinTech company serving millions of merchants and consumers through its digital payment platform. PayPay is seeking a Senior Product Manager to drive the vision, strategy, and execution of high-impact platform products, including monetization initiatives, while leading technical decisions, cross-functional alignment, and product team development.
Responsibilities
- New Feature Innovation: Lead the end-to-end planning, scoping, and successful market launch of high-impact features aimed at monetization and value creation
- Data-Driven Roadmap: Deep dive into user data and market analytics to diagnose user pain points, formulate hypotheses, and build robust product proposals that directly drive key KPIs
- Scalable Architecture: Create platform products that scale, making high-level technical architecture and UI/UX decisions with a long-term architectural view
- Technical Execution: Write technical PRDs, identify and fill product gaps, and work closely with engineering and design teams to execute the product roadmap predictably and on time
- Stakeholder Management: Act as the central bridge between diverse business units—including Business Development, Sales, Legal, Compliance, and Data Science—to align priorities and clear roadblocks
- Focus & Prioritization: Possess the confidence and diplomatic skill to prioritize relentlessly, making the hard decisions to say "NO" to distractions to keep the team focused on high-impact goals
Skills
- Experience: 5+ years of experience in Product Management
- Analytical Power: Strong data analysis skills with a demonstrated ability to turn complex data insights into actionable product strategies and KPI growth
- Strategic Problem Solving: A strategic mindset focused heavily on product growth, with the ability to navigate ambiguous challenges and break down complex problems into clear deliverables
- User-Centric Mindset: Excellent understanding of UI/UX principles, with a relentless focus on empathy and thinking from the user's perspective
- Language: Business-level proficiency in English (written and verbal)
- Technical Foundation: Master's degree in a technology-related field, or hands-on technical experience
- AI Utilization Experience: Hands-on experience working with AI-driven features, machine learning models, or AI product integration
- Execution Mindset: An extreme bias towards action (a relentless "Get Things Done" attitude) with a track record of working in very fast-paced environments
- Business-level proficiency in Japanese is preferred to effectively collaborate with regional stakeholders and users
Benefits
- Hybrid Workstyle
- Super Flex Time (No Core Time)
- Every Sat/Sun/National holidays (In Japan)/New Year's break/Company-designated Special days
- Annual leave (up to 14 days in the first year, granted proportionally according to the month of employment. Can be used from the date of hire)
- Personal leave (5 days each year, granted proportionally according to the month of employment) — PayPay's own special paid leave system, which can be used to attend to illnesses, injuries, hospital visits, etc., of the employee, family members, pets, etc.
- Social Insurance (health insurance, employee pension, employment insurance and compensation insurance)
- 401k
- Translation/Interpretation support
- VISA sponsor + Relocation support
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