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Director of Product Management (San Jose, CA, USA, North America)

eBay, San Jose, CA,USA

With more than 100 million active users globally (as of Q4 2011), eBay is the world's largest online marketplace, where practically anyone can buy and sell practically anything. Founded in 1995, eBay connects a diverse and passionate community of individual buyers and sellers, as well as small businesses. Their collective impact on ecommerce is staggering: In 2011, the total value of goods sold on eBay was $68.6 billion -- more than $2,100 every second.

Responsibilities:

eBay is looking for an enthusiastic, driven & passionate Director of Product Management to lead our investments and key aspects of our buying experience. The Director of PM on the Search and Discover team will set the vision and drive the execution of eBay's item listing pages that determine what sellers are selling, and buyers are purchasing, on eBay.

This Director of PM will be focused on setting and achieving both business and customer delight goals. He/she will build and set a strategic vision that balances the needs of both buyers and sellers in delivering the ideal customer experience. This person will be responsible for driving incremental business growth, creating and delivering a clear product roadmap with well vetted priorities and commitments bought in by key stakeholders across the organization, and operating the ongoing workstreams and product deliverables. He/she will work closely with the technology teams (including product development and quality engineering), the business team, and our global business counterparts.

The ideal candidate will have: 1) a deep focus on delighting users, 2) a key product and user intuition gut sense, and 3) keen insights into how research, usage and trends can be used to improve, re-design, and re-think the buying experience. Additionally, this person will have strong product passion, great communication skills, and a combination of raw smarts including: analytics, strategy, collaboration, and team leadership.

Qualifications & Skills:

- Background in internet product management, ideally in retail and/or internet search.

- Experience building and leading teams.

- Excellent management, coaching, team-building, organizational design skills.

- Demonstrated ability to craft product strategies based on the needs of the customer.

- Ability to use market research and data to make disciplined product and strategy decisions.

- Proven ability to work with a larger cross-functional team to define the team’s business strategy, product strategy, operation plan and detailed roadmap.

- Solid financial and analytical skills, with experience in translating complex business issues into clear goals and measuring against those goals.

- Experience successfully managing multiple projects from concept to delivery while meeting schedules and budget.

- Experience working closely with partners on strategy setting, product integration, and business metrics.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

- Ability to effectively influence others, particularly in other organizations.

- Passionate about the product. Passionate about making customers successful.

- Familiarity with the unique dynamics of the eBay marketplace -- buying/selling experience on eBay a plus.

- Bachelors Degree or Equivalent.

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