PayPal · 1 day ago
Head of Developer Evangelism - DevRel
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$270K/yr - $321K/yr
10+ years expPayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years, empowering consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets. The Head of Developer Evangelism will be the strategic architect and leader for enhancing the developer experience across PayPal's services and products, focusing on SDKs, APIs, and technical assets.
E-Commerce PlatformsFinTechMobile PaymentsTransaction Processing
Responsibilities
Create and drive holistic strategy for developer experience across SDKs, APIs, Docs, MCP, and other AI tools/platform to deliver great developer experience. You’ll work closely with the Documentation and the Developer Experience PM and Engineering teams to make it easier and simpler for new and existing developers to use our SDKs, APIs, Docs and AI tools
Create, implement and scale the technical asset strategy and operational plan including the overall developer communications strategy and messaging strategy
Develop and lead a high-performing, cohesive team of developers who understands and executes against a shared vision and evangelizes PayPal’s features, products and services
Drive platform configurability and extensibility for developer enablement globally
Drive platform scale for improved global expansion, ensuring robust support for the developers’ rapid growth
Develop deep partnerships with PayPal Product stakeholders to build solution based use cases and content that supports our growth
Tightly integrate with other PayPal technology and product leaders to drive consistency in our technical assets
Provide a framework and vision for PayPal teams to coalesce around to build and distribute technical assets, including demos, apps, videos and blogs
Drive change in corporate policies that prevent collaboration and sharing of technical assets with external developer communities
Identify and drive automation, needed tools, and improvements across the team
Your team will be responsible for:
Being the voice of the developer to architect and drive changes and improvements in SDKs, APIs, Docs and web to enable developers to quickly onboard and begin transacting
Develop deep trust with developers and encourage evangelism and advocacy from external developers
Writing code, architecting and developing apps, writing technical blogs, creating technical videos, demos, and tutorials
Being the developer evangelist by speaking at 3rd party developer conferences, hackathons, local meet ups, and PayPal’s developer events, as well as facilitating virtual webinars and tutorials
Build and distribute tools and automation to gain efficiencies
Qualification
Required
10+ years managing a team of developers and delivering against a roadmap
10+ years of experience developing in frontend and web commerce technologies, including open-source frameworks, API and SDKs
5+ years architecture and design experience for web commerce
5+ years in a developer relations or product team
Demonstrated broad knowledge of PayPal products and services and its ecosystem
Demonstrated knowledge of leading open-source technologies, especially those used in the FinTech industry
Demonstrated success building, leading and scaling cross functional and global teams
Strong project and program management capabilities
Excellent verbal and written communications skills
Ability to simplify complex architectures and solutions providing an easy path to developers no matter their experience level or background
Excited about coaching and mentoring others
Able to drive cross-team and cross-functional collaboration to solve problems, innovate and improve developer experience
Experience in non-technical aspects including business analysis and process optimization
Preferred
Creative candidates with unique perspectives
A unique voice to make technical assets interesting, engaging and fun for developers
Benefits
Annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable)
Equity
Medical, dental, vision, and other benefits
Flexible work environment
Employee shares options
Health and life insurance
Company
PayPal
PayPal is a financial service company that provides online payment solutions to its users worldwide.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$12.17BKey Investors
Kohlberg Kravis RobertsBlueRun Ventures
2025-11-17Post Ipo Debt· $6.95B
2023-06-07Post Ipo Debt· $5B
2015-07-20IPO
Leadership Team
Simon Bladon
PayPal UK CEO
chaloem khompitoon
President & CEO
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