Sr. Product Manager - Technical jobs at Ebay in United States, San Jose

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:

This role requires a unique product leader who can successfully navigate an ambiguous, fast-paced environment. You will be responsible for defining and delivering high-impact features across the entire live commerce journey, including the foundational technology platform, the global buyer experience, and the tools sellers use to broadcast, engage, and monetize their live streams. If you thrive on significant ownership, high visibility, and the chance to build the future of e-commerce, this is the role for you.

What you will accomplish:

• Serve as a visionary leader for your product space within live commerce, developing a strategy and roadmap that aligns with eBay's top-level goals. This requires blending deep customer empathy with an understanding of market trends, business goals, and competitive insights.

• Drive the full product lifecycle for multiple features or a major product initiative, from initial discovery and opportunity sizing to launch, iteration, and post-launch analysis.

• Own and deliver a challenging product roadmap on time, demonstrating a strong bias for action and high-quality outcomes. You will write clear, detailed requirements (PRDs) that prioritize hypotheses for testing and iteration.

• Lead and inspire confidence among a wide range of partners, including engineering, design, data science, research, and marketing. You will foster collaboration, build alignment, and drive shared goals across all stakeholders.

• Define key success metrics, leverage data and analytics to quantify customer problems, size opportunities, and ultimately measure the impact of your work on organizational goals.

• Cultivate a knowledge of the technical architecture and backend systems for your product area to effectively partner with engineering, unblock development, and influence technical decisions.

What you will bring:

• 8+ years of product management or related strategy experience, with e-commerce, video, or social commerce experience highly preferred.

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or relevant advanced degree preferred.

• Ambiguity Management: Exceptional ability to thrive in an ambiguous, 0-1 environment, distilling complex, unclear problems into a clear product vision and actionable roadmap.

• Prioritization and Tradeoffs: Demonstrated ability to evaluate options, assess trade-offs (short-term vs. long-term), and recommend a path forward, even with incomplete data.

• Influence & Communication: Masters written and verbal communication, adapting your message to influence both execution teams and executive leadership. Ability to lead and inspire without direct authority.

• Analytical Rigor: Proven ability to use quantitative and qualitative insights to build strong business cases, define necessary data, and measure product performance.

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:

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:

What will you do?

• Lead a talented full-stack team of backend, and frontend engineers

• Mentor and guide the development of your team members in a tailored empathetic manner suited for each individual

• Build collaborative and inclusive teams

• Own your teams deliverables and ship high quality software

• Build and maintain a healthy prioritized backlog in alignment with the team goals

• Collaborate with product managers, business units, analytics to brainstorm and build the next generation of our product and scale it.

• Layout technical vision for the team

• Push the bar to solve complex technical challenges of scale and performance

• Maintain a balance between short term and long term goals while shipping high impact products quickly

• Partner effectively and influence peers and senior leadership both within the organization and across eBay

• Experience leading or managing a small to medium-sized team of developers

• Experience in building large scale distributed systems with high availability, scalability and resilience

• Proven results-oriented person with a focus on delivery in a high-velocity environment

• Great communication skills. Needs to articulate thoughts and proposals clearly

• Experienced working in Agile teams

• Ability to grasp new areas; and adapt to changes

• Familiarity with eCommerce is a plus

• 10 years of work experience and 3+ years of leading or managing a team

• Exciting Product Mission with Impactful Technical Challenges - Dive into the heart of eCommerce innovation at Buyer Experiences, where we’re transforming eBay's shopping journey. By focusing on simplification, personalization, and modernization, we aim to build world-class buyer and seller experiences on eBay marketplaces with creativity and passion. Utilizing cutting-edge technologies like Generative AI, you'll tackle complex challenges that directly improve the shopping experience for millions of eBay users everyday.

• Vibrant Culture - At Buyer Experiences, our strength lies in our diversity, transparency, and collaborative spirit. Our open culture ensures every voice is valued and heard. We celebrate our successes together and approach each challenge as an opportunity for collective growth. Be a part of a dynamic community that not only values your expertise but is also committed to your personal and professional growth.

• Flexible Working - Enjoy exceptional support for remote work, allowing you to balance your professional and personal life seamlessly.

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