Staff Program Manager - eBay Ads

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About the team and the role :

The Advertising Team is reinventing advertising at eBay! We’re creating innovative ad-tech solutions to optimize the ad monetization and experience on eBay.

Our goal is to create a valuable experience for both buyers and sellers, while also driving performance for advertisers.

To that end, we are innovating rapidly in the ad-tech space and there is no shortage of new challenges for motivated individuals.

Read about some of our products and recent work here :

We are looking for a Staff Program Manager to join one of the fastest growing teams at eBay. Your focus will be on creating a strategy, leading and managing a complex program within our Advertising organization, ensuring the delivery of ambitious roadmaps from inception to implementation.

You’ll get to partner with collaborators horizontally and vertically within the organization - across product managers, engineers & technical leads, product marketing managers, sales and operations.

What you will accomplish :

Act as a true leader and owner of your program by setting a strategy for the short and long-term success of the organization, ensuring optimal customer satisfaction

Influence, negotiate, unblock and make key decisions that will lead the teams to hit their targets

Analyze, understand and take next steps based on your program's metrics and competitive landscape. Anticipate, assess and manage issues and risks independently;

perform as needed root cause analysis and recommend mitigation plans

Lead to quarterly and annual planning processes. Lead key operating rhythms within the advertising team and between partner teams;

improve processes and help solve partner concerns, even through ambiguity

Balance trade-offs between business needs with technical constraints; gaining consensus across partners along the way. Communicate and collaborate effectively, at all levels, including executive updates and presentations, and program documentation and tracking

Level up the organization through strong program management standards

What you will bring :

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent. 10+ years of working experience with partners within Program / Product / Engineering / Sales / Ops organizations.

Minimum 5+ years’ operating as a project / program manager in a technical environment

Solid experience working in an end to end, cross functional environment with engineering, design, product, sales, ops, and project management counterparts to deliver products / services

Capability of leading through influence, negotiation and information management and remaining execution focused; holding stakeholders accountable to greater goals regardless of level of seniority

Ability to operate independently with very little to no guidance, showing initiative even under unfamiliar or ambiguous circumstances.

Ability to work well as a member of a global and highly integrated team composed of both technical and non-technical members

Willingness to be hands-on and do whatever is vital; while also training others on the team where additive to project success (ownership / apprenticeship mentality)

Being clear and concise in both verbal and written communications including presentations (e.g., functional / technical specifications, status reports, etc.)

Demonstrated track record of leading large-scale projects in a product environment from conception through completion Knowledge of Agile development practices and tools;

prior experience with Lean and / or Six Sigma analytical techniques

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment in California, Washington, or New York is expected in the range below.

$126,800 - $187,550

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.

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