Senior Manager, User Experience Research (UXR) - eBay Live/Collectibles

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About the team and the role:

As the Sr. Manager, UX Research across the eBay Live & Collectibles spaces, you will lead a team of researchers to help craft the future of two of our priority spaces. You will work side-by-side with a broad set of leaders across each of the Live Commerce & Collectibles teams to improve the end-to-end experience for our eBay Buyers and Sellers, as well as finding ways to scale insights to create strong horizontal solutions. We will depend on you to build meaningful, collaborative relationships with our design, product and engineering partners and senior leadership, with a focus on influencing and creating customer-informed strategies and inspiring continuous user-based product and feature innovation. 

What you will accomplish:

• Lead an expanded team of some of our most senior User Researchers across the Live Commerce & Collectibles spaces, providing research leadership as well as career development guidance and coaching tailored for a mix of junior to senior research talent.

• Drive a mixed-methods research practice, gathering both generative and evaluative insights on designs and concepts. Methods include but are not limited to: in-depth user interviews, in-lab and field studies, online surveys, diary studies, usability testing, moderated and unmoderated remote testing, customer journey mapping, jobs to be done, benchmarking, heuristic evaluations, as well as stakeholder interviews.

• Cultivate and manage partnerships with cross-functional partners and company leadership (Design, Product Management, Marketing, Analytics, and various Business Units), being a user insights thought leader.

• Establish and maintain an efficient strategy for scoping research, execution, and sharing insights to ensure velocity and visibility across internal partners.

• Help drive the impact of insights generated by the team and play a leadership role in elevating the User Research practice at eBay. 

• Define and lead initiatives that contribute to the maturity of our research practice.

• Manage budget and maintain a healthy bench of external vendors for specific needs.

What you will bring:

• Advanced Degree in Human Factors, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive or Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Science or a related field with 8+ years of experience in an applied user research setting.

• 5+ years of experience in managing user research/product research teams.

• 2+ years of experience in managing research managers.

• Experience with the Live Commerce space is a plus but not a mandatory requirement.

• Consistent track record of building and curating user research programs, employing a range of methodologies.

• Practical experience in deploying qualitative and quantitative research methods throughout the product development lifecycle in complex spaces, from ideation to launch.

• Strong communication skills, experienced influencer, and advocate for user research.

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