Senior Design Program Manager

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About the team and the role:

As a Senior Design Program Manager leader, you will oversee the work happening in many areas of the eBay Financial Services space.  This includes experiences pertaining to the cart and checkout process, tax, global currencies, policies and protections (e.g. returns, fraud, etc.).  A global mentality is essential for ensuring platform-level systems and capabilities are designed into every aspect of the work we produce. 
 

Our Design Program Managers have deep expertise in optimizing user-centered design processes and are engaged in every step of the process from ideating concepts, testing prototypes, defining outcomes, scoping releases, design iterations, engineering collaboration, releasing to the market and tracking the results. Excellent communication, collaboration, and organizational skills are required. This is a hybrid role available to someone located in Portland, OR or Austin, TX and who is able to work in office at least 3 days per week.

You will be responsible for setting direction and partnering with Designers, Product Managers, Business and Engineering to ensure we are delivering releases that consistently meet an ever-higher bar of quality, innovation, and performance. Success depends on the ability to achieve goals and deliver results on time.  

What you will accomplish:

• Leadership – demonstrate leadership by setting direction, optimizing, troubleshooting and course-correcting in order to achieve goals

• Delivery Execution – drive the right outcomes and deliver on time by owning key timelines, roadmaps, execution plans, managing backlogs and effectively communicating status/results across orgs

• Team-building - work with global eBay product team partners (e.g. Product Managers, Engineering, Marketing, Business, etc.) to seek out ways to be more effective and increase job satisfaction

• Design Ops – drive the use of a common set of tools that are used to track, prioritize and rank the work that needs to be performed so it remains in sync with all team members

• Cross-org agility – work across a wide variety of internal and external teams and delivering a plan that represents the needs of UX, Content and Research across the Design team

• Culture and Inclusion – be part of a great work environment, establishing a supportive culture and creating an inclusive space for everyone to do their very best work and have a lot of fun along the way

What you will bring:

• 5+ years’ experience as a Design Program Manager, Technical Program/Product Manager with a track record of leadership, execution and vision

• Experience leading product design teams that build for scale (multiple platforms and markets)

• Experience designing, building and delivering commerce, financial service, payments and protection-related services

• Experience driving the scaling of product design for both creative quality and product efficiency/engagement

• Experience using project management systems such as Jira, Azure Dev Ops, other similar systems to manage cross-org releases and workloads

• Excellent project management, communication and organizational skills

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The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

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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