Ebay Senior Product Manager 

United Kingdom, England, London 

56924727

About the role:

eBay is looking for a Product Manager to shape and execute our shipping tools product vision - including shipping labels API(s). You will own the end-to-end product lifecycle—from strategy and roadmap to launch and iteration. You will ensure our APIs are secure, reliable, easy to use, and meet the needs of our customers, internal consumers and shipping partners. You will take pride in helping ebay businesses grow and in ebay operational teams be more efficient. Ideally you will have previously developed global product strategies for business customers and partners that enable and drive innovation and that have launched with significant results solving problems at scale. You will work closely with our regional business leaders, product and domain leads to identify and build core capabilities, while considering local market conditions critical to a long-term success.

Key responsibilities:

• Define and implement product strategy and roadmap for Shipping tools and APIs backed up by customer needs and data; drive a scalable and flexible API architecture that supports global shipping use cases and local market needs.

• Define success metrics, KPIs, and track performance.
  Liaise with internal operations, 3rd party vendors, business customers to identify opportunities, business problems and assess their impact.

• Collaborate with developers and technical writers to drive onboarding and provide support.

• Write clear product requirements, user stories, and API specifications.
  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

• Effectively communicate strategies & trade-offs up to senior leaders and down to development team

Job requirements:

• Hands-on experience with agile development process

• Experience managing public APIs from ideation through launch and lifecycle.
  Ability to co-create and review API documentation and understand end consumer needs and pain points

• Expertise and/or passion in technologies and products required to bring shipping and logistics solutions to market, at scale and globally

• Capable of translating technical requirements into business use cases and vice versa.

• Design, collect, analyse and benchmark product data to make decisions and business cases

• Manage and optimise business processes to free up developers

• 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

Basic Qualifications:

• 7+ years of product management experience, including ownership of public-facing APIs.

• Proven success in product development for e-commerce, logistics, or platform ecosystems.

• Strong understanding of APIs, authentication, developer onboarding, and versioning.

• Experience with backend product platform development, ability to translate a feature requirement into a backend platform capability.

• Familiarity with agile development, API lifecycle, and backlog management.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with SQL, Tableau, or experimentation platforms.

• Background in shipping platforms, SaaS logistics tools, or marketplace logistics.