Product Launch Manager

**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 Description Summary: What you need to know about the role: The Product Launch Manager - Italy will define, orchestrate and execute the Go-to-Market for our merchant products in Italy. The role is critical to ensuring the successful delivery of the PayPal Italy product strategy Meet our team: The PLG Team (Product, Launch and Growth) team are at the crucial intersection of Payments, Product, Marketing, Sales, Customer Support, Government Relations, Legal and Compliance. Working closely with these stakeholders in Italy / Europe is pivotal for the success of the PLG team and the broader Global Product Solutions (GPS) organization. The role will report to the Director of EU Product Launch and Growth.

**Job Description**:
**Your way to impact**
- Outcome focused, bringing payments and commercial acumen to the table to deliver winning launch plans
- Leverages a deep understanding of how to navigate a hyper-matrixed organization with the gravitas to manage C Level stakeholders.
- Brings a knack for seamlessly shifting between being detail oriented and viewing the strategic picture.
- Possesses ability to translate product plans into impact for our customer and customer facing teams

**Your day-to-day**
- In your day-to-day role you will:_
- Lead and build a customer centric and commercially aligned Go to Market strategy
- Bring market and functional stakeholders together to build coherent and impactful launches that deliver against market goals
- Articulate market launch dependencies and milestones and drive delivery to ensure readiness to launch.
- Proactively identify, mitigate and effectively escalate risks to product launches to ensure a smooth, transparent and impactful roll out

**What do you need to bring**
- 7+ years of professional experience across strategy, consulting, go to market
- Track record of working independently in a highly organized way
- Strong communication skills particularly when managing across stakeholders
- Be comfortable with ambiguity, and chart ways forward even with imperfect information.
- Business fluency in Italian and English is a pre-requisite
- Must already possess valid authorization to work in the country where the position is advertised/located. Relocation support will not be provided for this role.
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For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

**Our Benefits**:
At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset—you. That’s why we offer benefits to help