Manager, NA Business Performance

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.

Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.

About the team and the role:

What you will accomplish:

Job Duties: Lead the designing of forecasting and analytical models relying on mathematical, statistical and machine-learning methods leveraging historical data, market trends, and other internal and external factors to predict future internal business metrics and/or measure impact on eBay business. Ensure that these models provide a quantitative basis for executive leadership strategic decision-making on product roadmaps and resources allocation. Manage data science analytics including the acquisition, modeling, analysis and presentation of data on a wide range of factors that impact key business metrics relevant to eBay. Work with business partners across organizations to scope analysis to answer key business questions – challenge their thinking and become a trusted business partner. Manage the measurement, interpretation and monitoring of various business initiatives and data experiments and share the findings to a non-technical audience. Demonstrate strong analytical and statistical skills towards taking sophisticated and unstructured business problems, wide variety of quantitative and qualitative data, and providing structured, hypothesis-driven and data-supported practical solutions. Develop data science analytics vision and roadmap for the team, and foster innovation through continuous evolution of analytical frameworks and data solutions (e.g. self-serve data visualization). Partial telecommuting permitted from within a commutable distance.

What you will bring:

Minimum Requirements: Master’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a closely related field plus one year of experience in the job offered, as a Business Performance Manager, or a related occupation. Employer will accept a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a closely related field plus five years of experience in the job offered, as a Business Performance Manager, or a related occupation.

Special Skill Requirements:

1) Data Literacy – Strong analytical skills, ability to think objectively and interpret meaningful themes from quantitative and qualitative data

2) E-commerce experience – Experience working in the e-commerce space

3) Data Science Analytics – Manage and perform proactive and reactive data analyses on business drivers using SQL, Python or R and other tools to inform executive management, business units and partners on growth opportunities and detailed business performance drivers.

4) Statistical modeling – Experience in managing the design and development of statistical and machine-learning models applied to the measurement and/or forecast of business metrics.

5) Data management –Leveraging Hadoop technology and experience in working with large data sets.

6) Team management – Experience and capability to manage, mentor, and lead direct and indirect reports to complete tasks related to the function.

7) Executive communication and interaction – Experience working closely with executive leadership in a regular manner to support strategic business decision making, both within a defined formal framework as well as ad-hoc.