Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. eBay is a global ecommerce leader that is changing the way the world shops and sells. The Sr. Manager, Portfolio Strategy & Operations will drive the strategic planning and execution of global technology initiatives, leading cross-functional teams and modernizing governance to enhance operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Own the strategic planning approach for Global Technology, including calendar, standards, and leadership alignment
- Drive clarity on priorities, tradeoffs, and success measures across GT and partner organizations
- Represent and advocate for engineering priorities in cross-functional and enterprise planning and operating forums with clear recommendations grounded in execution reality
- Evaluate planning effectiveness and continuously improve the process to reduce friction, improve clarity, and increase adoption
- Maintain a trusted portfolio view of GT priorities, deliverables, resourcing assumptions, risks, dependencies, and operating health
- Establish and run portfolio governance mechanisms that keep initiative reporting consistent, outcomes focused, and decision ready
- Partner with Finance and People teams on capacity and headcount planning and hiring prioritization using structured, clear inputs
- Ensure leadership can quickly see what is on track, what is blocked, what has changed, and what decisions are needed
- Lead execution for high-impact initiatives that cut across teams, including integrated plans, dependency management, and partner alignment
- Drive delivery rigor through clear ownership, risk management, removing blockers, and strong operating rhythms
- Deliver measurable outcomes by setting clear achievements, keeping execution signals current, and closing programs with documented takeaways that improve future execution
- Shape executive agendas and forums such as GT Ops Review into decision engines by framing options, tradeoffs, recommendations, and closed-loop follow-through
- Surface cross-team misalignment early and drive resolution through clear framing, customer alignment, and timely addressing when needed
- Lead ambiguous, time-sensitive, or high-visibility workstreams on behalf of GT leadership, driving them from definition to measurable outcomes
- Find opportunities to streamline planning, reporting, and governance, reducing manual effort through tooling, automation, and responsible AI use
- Build and scale repeatable playbooks such as templates, decision logs, governance standards, and reporting guidance that help teams self-serve and move faster
- Design and drive adoption of ways-of-working improvements, including decision rights, standards, and cross-org interlocks that reduce friction and increase accountability
Skills
- Typically 10+ years in business operations, strategy & operations, management consulting, program leadership, product/engineering operations, or related roles (or an equivalent combination of education and experience)
- Track record leading cross-functional programs from definition through measurable outcomes
- Strong communication skills and the ability to produce concise, decision ready materials for senior leaders
- Technical fluency across the software development lifecycle and modern engineering practices, with credibility in engineering discussions
- Strong analytical skills and proficiency in working directly in data, including Sheets or Excel and dashboarding or reporting tools
- Strong judgment and discretion to handle sensitive topics and ambiguous situations
- Analytical and structured problem-solving skills (able to synthesize qualitative and quantitative inputs)
- Experience in a large-scale, global engineering organization
- Familiarity with operating models (portfolio governance, operating reviews such as WBR/MBR/QBR, scorecards)
- Experience designing or improving operating mechanisms (governance, decision rights, operating cadences, cross-org interlocks)
- Proficiency with portfolio and planning tools (e.g., Jira/Airtable/Jellyfish) and dashboarding/reporting tools
Benefits
- A target bonus
- Restricted stock units (as applicable)
- 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
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