Advising, guiding, and counseling contract staff and other team members as and when needed to ensure full team alignment and compliance with eBay Marketplaces policies and procedures.
Identifying, recruiting, hiring, developing, and overseeing direct and possibly indirect reports.
Ensure that the overall team meets or exceeds assigned goals, objectives, performance metrics and other targets.
Additional requirements: Travel to US or Europe offices of eBay 1-2 times a year is required as part of the role. Some flexibility may also be required to attend telephone or video conference meetings in late evenings during some days of the week with global partners (working from home or office, whichever works for you). eBay is very supportive and works collaboratively with its employees to help manage work-life balance
Primary Job Responsibilities
Build close partnership with the business and product teams to Innovate, identify and Explore new analytics and operational opportunities to help drive results to enable the Business Units to track and drive initiatives.
Identify, quantify, prioritize, test, launch and monitor improvements in business initiatives, marketing programs, website experience or policy changes.
Key go-to person to provide thought leadership and recommendations to future business direction partnering with product and business teams
Function as a liaison across multiple product or business domain teams and take ownership of driving analytics impact into cross-department initiatives.
Evaluate performance of tested features and programs and deliver final test results in a clear, concise and actionable manner.
Post-launch monitoring: measure performance of features and programs post launch and report back to product and business teams
Communicate findings to partners, product management, business and product development teams.
Promote a self-serve analytics culture for the organization by educating partners on key reports, data, and interpretation best practices.
Job Skills required:
Intellectual curiosity, passion for problem-solving, and comfort with ambiguity
A passion for understanding and serving the unique community of eBay
Exceptional business judgment and quantitative analytic ability and demonstrate assertive decision making skills
Strong partnership-building skills - ability to work across multiple teams and lead analytics, finance, business and product based initiatives
A proven track record of end to end analytics - problem definition, collating the required information, analyzing the results, synthesizing and presenting a compelling argument and influencing stakeholders to act
Skill and confidence in dealing with people at all levels across the organization
Must possess strong passion for achieving practical business impact
Demonstrate exceptional interpersonal skills, initiative, integrity as well as savvy business judgment and quantitative analytic ability
Superior communication skills and experience distilling and presenting complex quantitative analysis
Desired Qualifications:
BTech/BE/BS/BA degree (ideally in a quantitative field such in Engineering, Statistics, Applied Econometrics, Math, Physics, Computer Science, other related Core Sciences or equivalent) with 5+ years of experience in analytics and exposure to varied functions within analytics/finance OR Master s degree in similar field/MBA and 3+ years of experience in analytics and exposure to varied functions within analytics/finance
Advanced Excel, PowerPoint skills and database query skills (e.g., Teradata SQL, SparkSQL); and an understanding of data warehouse architecture, impacting large domain/business unit results and partner relationships
Experience with Hadoop/Hive/Python/R/R Shiny and Tableau, ideally in web analytics or at a leading management consulting, financial services or marketing company.
At least 1-2 years of experience as business partner to senior executives in a business unit within an organization, with proven results and exceptional quantitative and qualitative analytic impact
Effective project leader who understands business problems and current business trends, responsible for improving financial and business performance.
Real-world problem-solving experience for business using Data Science and Machine Learning a plus.
Compensation/ Other Benefits
Compensation includes fixed salary, bonus and restricted stock units, plus other allowances.