Job Description

Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 305 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.

Key contributor of content marketing team, developing and executing strategic, holistic and comprehensive content marketing platforms that bring to life the PayPal network story, elevate the brand and increase demand for our products.

The Merchant Content Strategist has the following key responsibilities:

• Create customer-first, competitive and insightful content strategies, plans and calendar to tell the story of the PayPal value proposition across International markets. ​

• Define and execute content based on strategies, plans and calendars, working with country marketers to localize.​

• Lead the development and execution of brand voice to ensure consistency across all content.  ​

• Contribute to development and maintenance of brand positioning, value propositions, core benefits and key messages, relevant to priority markets and segments across the marketing funnel.​

• Understand key cultural and calendar moments across International markets which inform a comprehensive yet efficient approach to an always-on view of content.​

• Operate in an agile fashion to inform the above approach with urgent news cycle conversations where PayPal has a role to insert itself into the conversation. ​

• Consistently deliver tangible results with business contribution and make decisions based on customer impact.​

• Stay on top of category, cultural and emerging trends and share with the wider business. ​

• Drive  a culture of executional excellence.​

Skills & Experience;

• 6-8+ years experience in brand marketing, marketing communications, integrated marketing, strategy, content or social. ​

• B2B, Fin-tech, e-commerce and payments understanding and experience highly valued.​

• Ability to translate value propositions into targeted messaging and content to drive results across segment and channel mix.​

• Inspires confidence and can motivate through communication - maintains a clear perspective between the overall picture and the details.​

• Experience in marketing planning and strategy, content development and management, channel management, including SEO.​

• Manage multi-disciplinary agencies, activation vendors and strategic partner relationships​

• Highly empathetic, great listener and business partner. ​

• Creative writer; can generate ideas that differentiate. ​

• Matches strategy with ability to execute.​

• Differentiates and prioritizes to focus on what is important. ​

• Simplifies the complex and operates with efficiency. ​

• Thinks and acts with quantitative foundations that inform marketing activity that leads to well defined business outputs. ​

• Strong planning and organization skills.​

• Can operate in a dynamic, matrixed organization.

We're a purpose-driven company whose beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We hold ourselves to our One Team Behaviors which demand that we hold the highest ethical standards, to empower an open and diverse workplace, and strive to treat everyone who is touched by our business with dignity and respect. Our employees challenge the status quo, ask questions, and find solutions. We want to break down barriers to financial empowerment. Join us as we change the way the world defines financial freedom.

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at paypalglobaltalentacquisition@paypal.com.

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