Sanaz Hajizadeh

Sanaz Hajizadeh is a PayPal Senior Product Leader who knows how to use data to bring together cross-functional teams in order to build better. Before joining PayPal, she worked at Happy Returns. She began with the company as a Senior PM and after just one year and a half was promoted to Director of Product Management. She has also worked on Product at SpaceX, Univision, and Viacom.

Sanaz attended the University of Tehran for her Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering. She graduated from the program in the top 5% of her class. After that, she went on the attend the KTH Royal Institue of Technology where she earned her Master's in Industrial Management. She also attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for a Professional Certificate in Marketing and Advertising.

Throughout her career, Sanaz has made a huge difference across her many teams and companies. She brings positive energy and a goal-oriented approach when it comes to building products. She also has an entrepreneurial work style and goes deep to understand the needs of her users in order to translate them into powerful features.