Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. eBay is a global ecommerce leader committed to reinventing the future of shopping and selling. They are seeking a Senior Manager, Portfolio Strategy & Operations to drive strategic planning and execution of global technology initiatives while leading cross-functional teams and modernizing governance. This role plays a crucial part in translating strategy into execution and improving collaboration across the organization.
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)
Company Overview
eBay is a global online marketplace enabling users to buy, sell, and auction new or used items across various categories. It was founded in 1995, and is headquartered in San Jose, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.ebay.com/.