Sr. Director Corporate Strategy jobs at Ebay in United States, San Jose

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in the company's specific industry (e.g. E-commerce).

• Experience scaling engineering organizations during rapid growth.

• Experience managing distributed/remote teams.

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

What you will accomplish:

• provide a comprehensive, 360 view of each customer

• Provide thought leadership on the customer segmentations and predicted signals that eBay needs to develop , based on internal and external customer data and developed using machine learning methods

• Provide strategic direction to build a modern, sustainable data program in collaboration with the data management and architecture teams, to serve as the foundation for our customer-centric efforts and external data sharing strategy

• Understand eBay’s internal data structure (domain owners, stewards etc.), internal data usage, and external data sharing risks and tie it back to the business needs

• Lead the creation of regular updates to the executive leadership team and throughout the eBay global business on the health of the eBay customer base, spotting the opportunity areas and working with partners to drive strategies that help eBay grow

• Collaborate closely with technology and data platform teams

What you will bring:

• 8+ years of experience in Customer data science, customer strategy and/or product roles, including 5+ years leading teams

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience or above in a quantitative field, e.g., statistics, mathematics, physics, computer science, economics, engineering.

• Consistent track record building analytical products and customer data-science driven programs

• Strong expertise in customer data, customer analytics and quantitative analysis approaches, including experience evaluating ML models with custom metrics and robust frameworks

• Deep understanding of data governance methodologies

• High-reaching, self-starter attitude; able to adapt to emerging challenges and implement under ambiguity.

• Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and RAG techniques (preferred)

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

• Build and scale Live categories and business in North America

• Develop and execute playbooks, strategy for different Live “formats” and category playbooks to scale eBay Live across multiple categories

• Set the seller and buyer segments and strategy for eBay Live to scale supply, demand and platform

• Manage end-to-end execution for content and programming, activations, and IRL events

• Partner with core category leaders, marketing, and operations to align on inventory, content, and pricing strategies

• Develop and execute live commerce activation strategies across multiple categories.

• Partner with category leaders, marketing, and operations to align on inventory, content, and pricing strategies.

• Scale eBay Live programming into a globally replicable model.

• Build scalable playbooks and seller training for using eBay Live tools.

• Lead creative testing and highlight activations (e.g., eBay Live Studio, Black Friday pilots).

• Explore opportunities to build or enhance a content studio to support live commerce.

• Establish frameworks to expand successful U.S. programs globally.

• Drive strong collaboration between category, business development, and operations teams.

• Serve as the thought leader on how eBay brings category strategy to life through live formats.
  

• 12+ years of experience in ecommerce, live commerce, digital retail, or related strategic leadership roles.

• Proven ability to translate business strategy into consumer-facing programs or activations.

• Strong leadership and team management experience with cross-functional collaboration skills.

• Deep understanding of content, storytelling, and live shopping engagement strategies.

• Experience developing scalable playbooks and frameworks for seller enablement.

• Demonstrated creativity, strategic agility, and operational excellence.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment and deliver measurable result
  

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

• Strategy Development: Develop the strategies for eBay to differentiate itself in the market. This will include crafting the strategies, developing the key initiatives to support the strategies and working closely with key eBay constituencies to gain consensus.
• Project leadership: Independently, lead cross-functional projects involving executive and senior partners from various part of the organization.
• Thought leadership: Develop content and topic expertise, as well as perspectives on issues important to eBay’s strategy. Structure problems. Develop creative solutions to challenging business problems
• Strategy Mobilization: Work with the eBay line organization as needed to support mobilization and implementation of the business strategies.
• Market and Competitive Analysis: Develop insightful market intelligence about key industry trends (technology, competitors, consumers, regulatory, etc.) and advise the organization of their strategic implications.
• Business Analytics: Drive business judgment, market understanding, problem solving, and fact-based analysis to identify, prioritize, structure, and solve challenging business problems.
• Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a driven strategy team in the development and execution of critical initiatives
• Communication: Develop storylines for presentations, prepare and deliver presentations to senior leadership
• Leading through uncertainty: Self-direct as well as manage resources on the strategy team and across the organization to deliver superior end-products in a dynamic industry and corporate environment

• Intellectual curiosity
• Excellence in structured thinking, developing sensible, creative solutions to challenging strategic business problems. Creativity and “out of the box” thinking that drives innovation. The ability to “see around corners” and “connect the dots” that enable business to proactively drive business
• Strong executive presence and ability to communicate strategy clearly and simply. Ease with executive-level interactions. Ability to create clear and simple storylines.
• Proven track record to lead and mentor a driven strategy team in the development and execution of key initiatives. Ability to lead, empower and mentor project team members
• Comfort in reaching out and prioritizing cross-functional collaboration in a highly matrixed environment
• Outstanding analytical capabilities (quantitative and qualitative), ability to generate key insights
• Comfort in handling uncertainty
• Highly collaborative – be fun, and easy to work with!

• Proven leader with at least 10 years of work experience - at least 2-3 years at a top strategy consulting firm at project management level are a must
• Bachelors Degree required, MBA or equivalent preferred
• Expertise in technology, ideally in e-commerce, retail, payments, and/or consumer facing products is highly desirable

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.

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

What you will accomplish

• Author Architecture Decision Records to define technical solutions and influence eBay's tech strategy.

• Drive complex projects from inception to successful implementation, improving system performance and security for entire organization and across domains.

• Uplevel teams through culture, process, and engineering practices, encouraging effective collaboration and tool-building.

• Identify and design flexible solutions within the application ecosystem to improve engineering velocity.

• Develop a long-term technology vision to keep systems modern and relevant amidst changing environments.

• Empower team members through knowledge sharing to collectively improve organizational culture and growth.

What you will bring

• 12+ years professional experience in native mobile development

• Expert in advanced swift features such as generics / concurrency Mgmt.

• Experience with dependency management tools in iOS - SPM/Cocoapods/Carthage etc.

• Deeper understanding of system design for large scale consumer mobile applications.

• Advanced networking skills ie. migration between stacks, GraphQL, Protobuff, streaming protocols, pub-sub etc.

• Excellent decision-making skills, growing amidst ambiguities and changes, with a strong sense of ownership and communication.

• Proficiency in mentoring and coaching, contributing positively to organizational culture.

• High learning ability, self-driven with a growth mindset, eager to learn transferable skills across adjacent domains.

• Experience attending knowledge sharing sessions both within and outside the company to foster continuous learning.

• Mastery of core technical skills alongside learning project, people, and product management to better support eBay.

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

What you will accomplish:

• Author Architecture Decision Records to define technical solutions and influence eBay's tech strategy.

• Drive complex projects from inception to successful implementation, improving system performance and security for entire organization and across domains.

• Uplevel teams through culture, process, and engineering practices, encouraging effective collaboration and tool-building.

• Identify and design flexible solutions within the application ecosystem to improve engineering velocity.

• Develop a long-term technology vision to keep systems modern and relevant amidst changing environments.

• Empower team members through knowledge sharing to collectively improve organizational culture and growth.

What you will bring:

• Required: 12+ years in native mobile development, with expertise in advanced Kotlin features and Android APIs.

• Advanced networking skills ie. migration between stacks, graphql, protobuff, streaming protocols, pub-sub etc.

• Excellent decision-making skills, growing amidst ambiguities and changes, with a strong sense of ownership and communication.

• Proficiency in mentoring and coaching, contributing positively to organizational culture.

• High learning ability, self-driven with a growth mindset, eager to learn transferable skills across adjacent domains.

• Experience attending knowledge sharing sessions both within and outside the company to foster continuous learning.

• Proficiency in core technical skills alongside learning project, people, and product management to better support eBay.

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

What you will accomplish

• Author Architecture Decision Records to define technical solutions and influence eBay's tech strategy.

• Drive complex projects from inception to successful implementation, improving system performance and security for entire organization and across domains.

• Uplevel teams through culture, process, and engineering practices, encouraging effective collaboration and tool-building.

• Identify and design flexible solutions within the application ecosystem to improve engineering velocity.

• Develop a long-term technology vision to keep systems modern and relevant amidst changing environments.

• Empower team members through knowledge sharing to collectively improve organizational culture and growth.

What you will bring

• 12+ years professional experience in native mobile development

• Expert in advanced swift features such as generics / concurrency Mgmt.

• Experience with dependency management tools in iOS - SPM/Cocoapods/Carthage etc.

• Deeper understanding of system design for large scale consumer mobile applications.

• Advanced networking skills ie. migration between stacks, GraphQL, Protobuff, streaming protocols, pub-sub etc.

• Excellent decision-making skills, growing amidst ambiguities and changes, with a strong sense of ownership and communication.

• Proficiency in mentoring and coaching, contributing positively to organizational culture.

• High learning ability, self-driven with a growth mindset, eager to learn transferable skills across adjacent domains.

• Experience attending knowledge sharing sessions both within and outside the company to foster continuous learning.

• Mastery of core technical skills alongside learning project, people, and product management to better support eBay.

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below: