Ebay Transformation Lead Product Excellence 

United States, Texas, Austin 

811189853

will play a pivotal role in this evolution. Bringing expertise in , this leader will ensure the new PDLC is adopted, understood, and embedded across our global organization. You will help product managers and cross-functional teams stay focused on strategy and outcomes by creating the conditions for consistent, high-performing product practices.

Change Leadership & Adoption

• Lead the adoption of a unified PDLC across product, engineering, design, and partner teams.

• Develop engagement, communication, and reinforcement strategies to build alignment and sustain momentum.

• Use facilitation, coaching, and storytelling to activate change and create buy-in across the organization.

Enablement & Capability Building

• Create scalable enablement approaches that equip teams with the knowledge and confidence to apply the new PDLC.

• Develop resources, playbooks, and communities of practice that embed PDLC practices into daily workflows.

• Design reinforcement mechanisms that ensure long-term behavior change and continuous improvement.

Product Operating Model & Excellence

• Establish a consistent operating model for product management—defining rituals, cadences, and standards that improve quality and predictability of delivery.

• Drive clarity and alignment around product team charters, roles, and responsibilities.

• Create reusable frameworks for roadmapping, prioritization, OKRs, and outcome tracking to increase product team effectiveness.

• Define and embed product health metrics to assess maturity, performance, and impact.

• Lead retrospectives and operational reviews that result in continuous improvement across teams.

Cross-Functional Alignment

• Partner with Engineering and Design leaders to ensure smooth, frictionless ways of working.

• Ensure transparency into how product work connects to business outcomes and value creation.

• Build a culture of accountability and excellence, enabling product teams to operate at scale without compromising quality or speed.

What You’ll Bring

• Proven experience leading large-scale organizational change and capability-building initiatives.

• 10+ years of product management, product operations, or program leadership experience along with large scale learning programs with impact at the org level.

• Deep understanding of product development workflows, PDLC, and cross-functional challenges across discovery, planning, and delivery.

• Strong familiarity with planning frameworks (RICE, MoSCoW, opportunity solution trees) and product management tools (Jira, Productboard, Confluence, Figma, dashboards).

• Exceptional facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence without authority.

• Analytical and systems thinker—able to diagnose problems, measure adoption, and architect scalable solutions.

• Experience working in complex, cross-functional environments with global scale.

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and building clarity in evolving organizations.

Success in this Role Looks Like

• A unified PDLC that is consistently applied across eBay, replacing fragmented approaches.

• Product managers and cross-functional partners feel supported, enabled, and confident in applying the new practices.

• Clear leadership alignment and visible sponsorship driving adoption and cultural change.

• A high-performing product operating model where clarity, prioritization, and execution excellence are the norm.

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