Director Product Management jobs at Ebay in India, Bengaluru

This person will need to work with a large number of teams within eBay to make these visions successful, so building close, effective relationships with partner Product Managers will be critical. In addition, this person will translate product strategy into detailed specifications, make functional and user interface design tradeoffs, manage product launches and own the product successes post-launch. Having the experience and ability to write clear, consistent and detailed product specs will be essential. He or she will work closely with a cross-functional team of engineering, analytics, product marketing, and user research to deliver these products.

• Act as primary liaison between partner Product Managers to ensure fluid planning, design, and development of new and existing features
• Plan roadmaps according to strong product visions, bounded by finite engineering resources
• Define product requirements including writing clear, detailed, and thorough specifications for complex features and products
• Analyze user behavior data, user experience research, and marketing research to understand and drive new features & improvements
• Work with the Design team to ensure the user interface leverages industry and eBay standards, and fits into the overall product vision of the item details page
• Work with the Product Development team to ensure extensibility and scalability with the technical design
• Work with the Quality Engineering team to ensure the final delivery meets product requirements
• Solicit feedback and communicate product benefits and changes to the user community
• Ensure product vision and requirements are defined globally and for all devices, meeting the needs of global eBay sites and mobile apps, and support the goal of a single global marketplace

Job Requirements:

• 5+ years of product management or related experience. Passionate about quality products.
• Strong understanding of user interaction, design, and research
• Strong analytic skills and ability to synthesize data from multiple sources
• Demonstrated experience in writing unambiguous and clear technical specifications
• Experience working closely with internal partners on product planning, design, and development
• Experience successfully managing multiple projects through product life cycle from concept to delivery while meeting schedules and budget
• Passionate advocate for user, and has proven results in achieving superb user experience within tight constraints
• Strong cross functional team leader
• Demonstrated leadership ability, self-motivated and directed, entrepreneurial ability to innovate quickly

Basic Qualifications:

• MS Master's Degree
• Degree in a technical discipline or equivalent industry experience

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced product leader with a passion for coaching, training and developing our next generation of global product teams. In this role, you’ll be a transformational force, crafting a culture of continuous learning and excellence. You will be responsible for ensuring our people – Product Managers and key stakeholders – are implementing and scaling our Product Operating Model with a lens toward how we leverage AI technology and tools in the way we work and applying key product skills with real life applications. You will drive the content and collaborate with various stakeholders (Product Leaders, subject matter experts, instructional designers, etc.) to create engaging and effective learning materials and workshops including a Product Masterclass led by our Chief Product Officer. If you’re passionate about pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in product management and have a knack for inspiring others to reach their full potential, this is the role for you.

In this role you will be responsible for establishing a robust L&D curriculum for our Product Managers and teams. You will ensure our people – Product Managers and key stakeholders – are enabled against our Product Operating Model and are applying key product skills with real life applications. Key responsibilities include:

• Lead with Vision: Design and deliver transformative learning experiences that empower product teams to excel in a rapidly evolving landscape.

• Inspire Innovation: Develop and launch a revamped L&D curriculum for our Product Managers, bringing the best of product leadership to life

• Drive Engagement: Collaborate with product leaders, SMEs, and instructional designers to create engaging, hands-on workshops that bridge theory and practice.

• Measure Impact: Continuously improve the learning journey by analyzing feedback and engagement metrics, ensuring that our teams are always ahead of the curve.

• Foster a Community of Excellence: Build a thriving community of product managers who are passionate about innovation and scaling best practices.

What you need to bring:

• Proven Leadership: 8+ years of experience in product management and leadership, with a track record of driving transformation and coaching high-performing teams.

• Deep Expertise: Mastery of product management principles, methodologies, and the behaviors that define successful teams.

• Compelling Communication: Strong ability to inspire and engage diverse audiences through powerful storytelling and clear, strategic communication.

• Strategic Thinking: Exceptional problem-solving skills and a strategic mindset that anticipates future trends and challenges.

• Collaborative Spirit: Experience building strong relationships and driving cross-functional initiatives that elevate the entire organization.

Job Description

• Looking for a company that inspires passion, courage, and creativity, where you can be on the team shaping the future of global commerce? Want to shape how millions of people buy, sell, connect, and share around the world? If you’re interested in joining a purpose driven community that is dedicated to crafting an ambitious and inclusive work environment, join eBay – a company you can be proud to be with.

• We’re on a mission to build the most intelligent and scalable product knowledge system in eCommerce, powered by AI, structured data, and next-gen taxonomy/ontology strategies.
  We’re looking for a Group Product Manager who thrives at the intersection of structured data, AI/ML, and search optimization—someone who can define the strategy, drive execution, and collaborate deeply with AI, data, and engineering teams to improve how millions of customers discover products.
  In this high-agency, startup-like role, you’ll own and scale the AI-driven product knowledge ecosystem, ensuring our taxonomy, ontology, and catalog data power better search, recommendations, and personalization experiences!
  

Responsibilities:

• Define, implement & own the Product Strategy and Roadmap for products powered by generative AI that will cut across the Product Knowledge organization powering applications across the e-commerce application stack - from retrieval to ads to experiences

• Translate product strategy into clear and concise specifications, make functional and user interface design tradeoffs, handle product launches, and lead the product successes post-launch.

• Data driven product decisions with a balance of near-term deliverables and longer-term investment in technology platforms

• Communicate strategies and trade-offs up to senior leaders and down to development teams

• Put the customer first, understand market specific nuances, and identify algo improvements to address unique user & application specific needs

• Drive collaboration across multiple teams to ensure teams are aligned and are working towards solving customer problems

• Drive A/B testing to identify launch candidates that improve organizational goals

• Define key metrics and evaluation frameworks to track the impact of structured data improvements on search, recommendations, and personalization.

• Deeply Integrate with AI/ML Teams – Work hand-in-hand with AI, data science, and engineering to build scalable, automated solutions for listing classification and aspect intelligence and listing annotation

Preferred qualifications:

• 10+ years with a strong track record product management experience, having previous experience building customer centric products

• 6+ years of experience in AI/ML product management with specific emphasis on knowledge graphs, a 2+ of years of experience in GenAI and using LLMs to drive business outcomes

• Strong understanding of product classification, metadata structuring, and entity resolution techniques.

• Experience optimizing product search, recommendations, and structured navigation.

• Technical Comfort – Familiarity with SQL, APIs, data pipelines, and AI/ML workflows.

• A proven track record building new, innovative, and engaging customer experiences informed by customer data from various sources (market research, A/B testing, user research)

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to use data to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive decision making

• Technically savvy (prefer a technical role in past, or Computer Science Degree)

• Passionate advocate for user

• Demonstrated leadership ability, self-motivated and directed, entrepreneurial ability to innovate quickly

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Technical Vision & Strategy:

  • Define and drive the long-term technical vision, roadmap, and architecture for the engineering organization.

  • Align engineering strategy with overall business goals and product vision.

  • Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and methodologies.

  • Ensure technical decisions support scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.

• Team Leadership & Management:

  • Lead, mentor, and grow multiple Engineering Managers and/or Team Leads.

  • Oversee the hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development of engineering staff (including managers and senior ICs).

  • Foster a high-performing, collaborative, innovative, and inclusive engineering culture.

  • Build and maintain team morale, engagement, and retention.

• Delivery & Execution:

  • Oversee the planning, execution, and timely delivery of complex software projects across multiple teams.

  • Ensure teams adhere to best practices (coding standards, code reviews, testing, CI/CD).

  • Manage engineering budgets, resource allocation, and capacity planning.

  • Track key performance indicators (KPIs) related to delivery velocity, quality, and system health

• Process & Operational Excellence:

  • Establish, optimize, and standardize engineering processes (SDLC, Agile/Scrum/Kanban, release management, incident response).

  • Drive continuous improvement in engineering efficiency, productivity, and quality.

  • Implement and monitor metrics to measure team and organizational performance.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration:

  • Partner closely with Product Management, Design, Data Science, Security, and IT/Operations to define requirements, prioritize work, and ensure successful product delivery.

  • Collaborate with senior leadership (Sr. Directors, other Directors, Executives) on strategic initiatives and company-wide goals.

  • Represent the engineering organization in cross-functional meetings and strategic discussions.

• Technical Oversight & Quality:

  • Provide high-level technical guidance and oversight across projects.

  • Champion software quality, best practices, and operational reliability (e.g., SLOs, SLIs).

  • Ensure systems are designed for scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency.

  • Manage technical debt and advocate for necessary refactoring/infrastructure investments.

• Resource Management:

  • Growing your team through coaching, mentoring

  • Forecast hiring needs and participate in recruitment strategy.

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in direct people management and 3+ years managing other managers.

• Master's degree in Computer Science, or Bachelor's degree with equivalent experience

• Proven ability to lead, inspire, mentor, and grow large engineering teams and managers. Strong coaching skills.

• Significant hands-on technical background (software development, architecture, systems design). Ability to understand complex technical challenges and trade-offs deeply, even if not coding daily.

• Ability to set technical vision, translate business strategy into engineering execution, and make long-term architectural decisions.

• Proven track record of shipping complex, high-quality software products at scale. Expertise in Agile methodologies.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences (including executives).

• Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills. Ability to build strong cross-functional partnerships.

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills. Ability to navigate ambiguity and make sound decisions under pressure.

• Experience establishing processes, metrics, and driving continuous improvement.

• Experience in ECommerce and Shipping industry

• Experience scaling engineering organizations during rapid growth

eBay is looking for an experienced Product Manager to execute and shape our shipping tools product strategy. Developing a platform to support and delight users from many distinct markets carries with it many challenges. Ideally you will have previously developed global product strategies that enable and drive innovation and that have launched with meaningful results. You will work closely with our regional business leaders, product and domain leads to identify and build core capabilities, improve utility of features common to multiple key partners, and also solve for local conditions critical to market success.

• Define and execute product strategy and roadmap for Shipping tools backed up by user needs and data; have a global viewpoint and extend applications across use cases
• As the Product Owner, provide clear product vision to your scrum team and co-lead the Agile scrum team with engineering counterpart to execute on roadmap with clear milestones
• Clearly set the product/backlog prioritisation with a balance of near-term deliverables and longer-term investment in technology platforms
• Be the product evangelist and partner closely with business and engineering leaders
• Effectively communicate strategies & trade-offs up to senior leaders and down to development team

• Hands-on experience with agile development process
• Expertise and/or passion in technologies and products required to bring shipping and logistics solutions to market, at scale and globally
• Design, collect, analyse and benchmark product data to make decisions and business cases
• Manage and optimise business processes to free up developers; do everything you can to speed up work that adds value to users directly
• Asks the right questions to formulate product perspective and present requirements
• Balances technical and business acumen; able to communicate what is possible and what will have the biggest impact on business
• Builds positive relationships internally and externally; an active listener and clear communicator

• 7+ years of strong product management experience
• Experience in shipping/logistics domain an advantage
• Knowledge of SQL and Tableau an advantage
• Past experience in product development or platform product management would be ideal

Benefits are an essential part of your total compensation for the work you do every day. Whether you’re single, in a growing family, or nearing retirement, eBay offers a variety of comprehensive and competitive benefit programs to meet your needs. Including maternal & paternal leave, paid sabbatical, and plans to help ensure your financial security today and in the years ahead because we know feeling financially secure during your working years and through retirement is important.

About the Role

This position requires a blend of front-end product expertise, an experimentation-driven mindset, and deep back-end platform experience. You will play a pivotal role in designing, scaling, and evolving global payment solutions, ensuring our systems are robust, compliant, and optimized to deliver exceptional value for buyers, sellers, and the business.

What You’ll Do

• Set the Vision: Define and communicate a compelling product vision and strategy for Payments Platform initiatives, balancing near-term execution with long-term platform investments.

• Drive Execution: Partner with engineering, analytics, design and other cross-functional teams, delivering end-to-end solutions that span customer-facing experiences, APIs, and core services.

• Enable Scale: Design systems for high availability, reliability, and scalability across multiple geographies, currencies, and regulatory frameworks.

• Collaborate Across Functions: Work with product, design, data, finance, and operations teams, as well as in-country business leaders, to align on priorities and build scalable global solutions.

• Lead with Data: Leverage analytics, customer insights, and experimentation frameworks to inform product design, validate hypotheses, and measure impact.

• Influence & Inspire: Act as a domain expert and trusted partner across the organization, building alignment from executives to cross-functional teams.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or technical (engineering) degree preferred.

• 8+ years of experience in product management or software development, with significant exposure to payments or financial platforms—ideally in large-scale eCommerce or marketplace environments.

• Proven track record of delivering both front-end user-facing products and back-end platform solutions.

• Solid understanding of payments processing, accounting, tax and compliance frameworks.

• Experience driving global product strategies that balance innovation, operational flexibility, and market-specific requirements.

• Strong analytical abilities, with expertise in experimenting, testing hypotheses, and using quantitative/qualitative methods,

• Ability to lead complex initiatives in a matrixed, global environment, influencing stakeholders at all levels.

• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to simplify complexity and inspire action.

• Passion for building products that delight customers and move the business forward.