Sr. Mgr, UX Research- Global Markets/C2C

1 Minute ago • 8 Years + • UI/UX Design

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Job Description

As the Sr. Manager, UX Research for Global Markets & C2C, you will lead a team of senior researchers to shape the future of eBay's growth. You will collaborate with leaders across various teams, including Listing, Seller Performance, Messaging, and Local Experience, to enhance the end-to-end experience for eBay Sellers and scale insights for Buyer surfaces. This role requires building strong relationships with design, product, and engineering partners, influencing strategies with customer insights, and driving continuous product innovation. You will provide leadership and coaching to a diverse research team, ensuring impactful insights and elevating eBay's User Research practice.
Must have:
  • Lead a team of senior User Researchers for Global Markets & C2C.
  • Craft the future of eBay’s long-term growth plan.
  • Work with leaders across Listing, Seller Performance, Messaging, and Local Experience teams.
  • Improve end-to-end experience for eBay Sellers.
  • Scale insights to create strong horizontal solutions across Buyer surfaces.
  • Build collaborative relationships with design, product, and engineering partners.
  • Influence and create customer-informed strategies.
  • Inspire continuous user-based product and feature innovation.
  • Provide research leadership and career development guidance.
  • Drive a mixed-methods research practice.
  • Gather generative and evaluative insights on designs and concepts.
  • Cultivate and manage partnerships with cross-functional partners and leadership.
  • Establish and maintain efficient strategy for scoping research, execution, and sharing insights.
  • Drive the impact of insights generated by the team.
  • Play a leadership role in elevating the User Research practice at eBay.
  • Define and lead initiatives contributing to research practice maturity.
  • Manage budget and external vendors.
  • Advanced Degree in Human Factors, HCI, Cognitive or Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Science or related field.
  • 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.
  • Consistent track record of building and curating user research programs.
  • Practical experience in deploying qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Good to have:
  • Experience with the Financial Services industry

Job Details

About the role and team:

As the Sr. Manager, UX Research for Global Markets & C2C, you will lead a team of senior researchers to help craft the future of one of the most important pillars of eBay’s long-term growth plan. You will work side-by-side with a broad set of leaders across each of the Global Markets & C2C teams, including the Listing, Seller Performance, Messaging, and Local Experience teams to improve the end-to-end experience for our eBay Sellers, as well as finding ways to scale insights to create strong horizontal solutions across some Buyer surfaces. 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 Seller Experience 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.
  • 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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About The Company

We Empower People and Create Economic OpportunityeBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) is a global commerce leader that connects millions of buyers and sellers around the world. We exist to enable economic opportunity for individuals, entrepreneurs, businesses and organizations of all sizes.

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