Sr. Leader, Engineering Excellence

Sr. Manager, Engineering Excellence

At eBay, we're more than a global ecommerce leader we're changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We're committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts.

Our customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work every day. We're in this together, sustaining the future of our customers, our company, and our planet.

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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.

The Buyer & Community Engineering (BCE) team owns all landing experiences for eBay buyers. We drive billions of dollars in revenue via 100's of millions of page views delivered daily across the globe, across all devices & browsers. Our culture is centered around eBay's core values and purpose of helping our buyers and sellers every day. High emotional quotient, collaborative spirit, integrity, teamwork and growth mindset are the heartbeat of this team. We constantly push for excellence by encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. We innovate / We take risks / We fail : but in all this, we learn quickly and advance.

This role works within BCE, reporting to the Senior Director of the organization. As Sr. Manager, Engineering Excellence you will help raise the bar on eBay's engineering practice through ensuring the engineering teams are operating effectively and enabled across the product lifecycle. We require a creative, inspiring and driven team member who will build the structure and rigor to ensure that dozens of engineering teams are effective and healthy. You'll help eBay deliver software faster, while steadily improving quality and reliability metrics. You will be a strong voice for Lean, DevOps, and other industry best practices, by training leaders, engineers, and others to integrate these practices at eBay This position requires a deep understanding of Lean and DevOps, knowledge of product life cycle, ability to influence, agile execution and a strong internal sense of the appropriate bar for production metrics - while maintaining a strategic outlook on where the organization is trying to go.

Responsibilities :

• Help drive software velocity and quality improvements across all of eBay engineering
• Identify gaps in ways of working AND metrics, create proposals, execute on them, track and risk manage the execution, synthesize data to create conclusions, present to execute leadership, and repeat the cycle to continuously improve the organization.
• Be a thought leader for the organization and sharpen strategy by partnering with other engineering leaders to elevate the overall organization.
• Drive operational excellence by getting deep into the day to day of how an engineering team runs, mentor and guide them, enabling successful delivery of projects.
• Define the vision, strategy, engagement plan, and execution to elevate eBay's product lifecycle.
• Collaborate effectively with business, product development, and engineering teams across multiple domains and multiple geographies. Understand their needs, and work with them to propose solutions to help enable them.
• Capture and then drive improvements in key metrics around velocity and quality.
• Continually look for opportunities to improve eBay's product life cycle practices across the organization, ensuring the highest level of integrity and transparency.
• Influence and drive improvements to the product development practices throughout eBay

Qualifications :

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

$210,400 - $280,900

Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and / or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employees will be in an "at-will position" and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department / team performance, and market factors.