Director, Design Program Management

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About the team and the role:

eBays Design organization creates seamless end-to-end experiences that connect millions of buyers and sellers globally. We work across Product Engineering and the business to solve complex problems and deliver important customer and business impact.

As Director Design Program Management you will serve as a strategic and operational partner to one of six Design GMs shaping how the organization sets priorities makes decisions and delivers against its most meaningful ambitions.

You will lead a small high-impact Design Program Management team and orchestrate Designs most complex cross-functional initiatives. More broadly you will shape the operating system for your Design teamconnecting strategy to execution creating clarity across priorities and investments and transforming how the organization works at scale.

The ideal leader is a systems thinker and change agent who sees around corners brings clarity to ambiguity and turns bold ideas into action.

What you will accomplish:

• Partner with the Design GM and leadership team to translate Designs vision into clear priorities operating plans investment choices and measurable outcomes. Turn complex portfolio information into insights tradeoffs and decisions that move the organization forward.

• Lead Designs most complex cross-functional priorities aligning Design Product Technology and business teams around shared outcomes dependencies risks and decisions.

• Champion AI and drive transformation challenging legacy ways of working and introducing simpler more effective approaches that fundamentally improve how Design plans collaborates makes decisions and delivers.

• Build alignment at the executive level navigating competing priorities and perspectives to drive decisions accountability and action.

• Anticipate whats next identifying emerging risks opportunities and organizational needs before they become blockers.

• Lead and develop a small high-performing DPM team establishing the benchmark for critical thinking execution and organizational impact.

• Evolve Program Management into a core capability building practices and systems that develop leverage across the broader Build organization.

What you will bring:

• 12 years experience in Design Program Management Design Operations Product Operations Business Operations or a related subject area within a complex product or technology organization.

• A track record as a trusted partner to senior executives translating strategy into priorities decisions and coordinated action.

• Exceptional systems thinking and operational judgment with the ability to see across teams and subject areas and solve for the organization not just the program.

• Demonstrated success leading high-impact cross-functional programs and transformations in complex ambiguous environments.

• Strong ability to understand business and apply analytical rigor with the capacity to assess tradeoffs manage risk and help leaders make high-quality decisions.

• Experience building and developing high-performing program management talent while driving impact well beyond the size of your team.

• A forward-looking perspective on how AI automation and new ways of working can reshape the effectiveness of creative and product organizations.

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Additional Details

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.

Remote roles are not eligible for U.S. visa sponsorship.

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