Lead Product Manager – Payments Platform

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About the Role

Looking for a company that inspires passion, courage, and creativity, where you can help shape the future of global commerce? At eBay, you’ll be part of a purpose-driven community enabling millions of people worldwide to buy, sell, and connect every day.

Payments is one of eBay’s most critical growth drivers, powering global commerce at scale. We are seeking a dynamic and versatile Lead Product Manager to join our Payments Platform, Tax & Monetization team. In this role, you will lead high-impact initiatives in the Payments Platform domain, developing solutions that enable secure, seamless, and efficient global payments. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of developing thorough long-term product strategies and robust execution of the strategy with operational excellence.

This position requires a blend of front-end product expertise, an experimentation-driven mindset, and deep back-end platform experience. You will play a pivotal role in designing, scaling, and evolving global payment solutions, ensuring our systems are robust, compliant, and optimized to deliver exceptional value for buyers, sellers, and the business.

What You’ll Do

• Set the Vision: Define and communicate a compelling product vision and strategy for Payments Platform initiatives, balancing near-term execution with long-term platform investments.
• Drive Execution: Partner with engineering, analytics, design and other cross-functional teams, delivering end-to-end solutions that span customer-facing experiences, APIs, and core services.
• Enable Scale: Design systems for high availability, reliability, and scalability across multiple geographies, currencies, and regulatory frameworks.
• Collaborate Across Functions: Work with product, design, data, finance, and operations teams, as well as in-country business leaders, to align on priorities and build scalable global solutions.
• Lead with Data: Leverage analytics, customer insights, and experimentation frameworks to inform product design, validate hypotheses, and measure impact.
• Influence & Inspire: Act as a domain expert and trusted partner across the organization, building alignment from executives to cross-functional teams.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or technical (engineering) degree preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in product management or software development, with significant exposure to payments or financial platforms—ideally in large-scale eCommerce or marketplace environments.
• Proven track record of delivering both front-end user-facing products and back-end platform solutions.
• Solid understanding of payments processing, accounting, tax and compliance frameworks.
• Experience driving global product strategies that balance innovation, operational flexibility, and market-specific requirements.
• Strong analytical abilities, with expertise in experimenting, testing hypotheses, and using quantitative/qualitative methods,
• Ability to lead complex initiatives in a matrixed, global environment, influencing stakeholders at all levels.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to simplify complexity and inspire action.
• Passion for building products that delight customers and move the business forward.

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