Experience level: 10+ year total experience with 2+ year of experiencing developing teams of 3+ people.
This is the senior manager role for eBay Monetization Data Science team, a 5-member team based out of Bangalore. As the lead for this team, you will be responsible for the growth and development of the team members. You will be responsible for the team s project prioritization and driving best practices within the team to ensure high quality output. You will also have to manage expectations with senior business partners. Hence, the role requires good team management, partner management and executive presentation skills.
The team provides the analytics muscle for deciding the commercial strategy of eBay globally, focusing mainly on eBay s U.S. and European business, and is involved in all the important pricing changes. Hence, we are looking for someone with background in pricing. eCommerce pricing experience would be ideal, but pricing experience in other industries like banking is fine too. This team is also involved in seller pricing-promotions end-to-end, starting from the design phase to measuring the impact post implementation. Hence, deep knowledge of advanced A/B testing methodologies is a must for this role.
Job Responsibilities include:
Design and measure pricing-promotions for sellers
Planning, sizing, measuring of strategic price changes
Structure and refine analysis with the goal of distilling insights from the data
Build and innovate processes that produce insights and information on a periodic basis
Team development and management
Support junior analysts by guiding them in their analysis
Present analytical findings to senior management in order to guide decisions
Analyse and monitor the business impact of price changes and promotions
Design product/ feature reports and work cross-functionally to implement them
The role is both data-intensive and people-intensive, and hence candidate must demonstrate strong inter-personal skills, and be very comfortable working with large sets of data to derive business insights. The candidate should also be able to offer a strategic perspective, sound business judgment, and work collaboratively with multiple teams, located in different geographies.
Successful candidates should also demonstrate:
Ability to take initiatives and drive work
Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, in dealing with people at all levels of the organization
Exceptional business judgment and quantitative analytic capability
10+ years experience in distilling and presenting complex quantitative analysis to business users
Intellectual curiosity, passion for problem-solving, and comfort with ambiguity
High energy and a desire to work in a fast growth environment
Ability to thrive in a cross-functional environment while juggling multiple responsibilities
A passion for understanding and serving the unique community of eBay
Leadership qualities, to guide and develop the team
Strong academic profile with an emphasis on quantitative coursework
Willingness to travel across geographies, as per need
Preferred qualifications and skills:
Bachelor s Degree with quantitative background (Engineering/ Maths/ Statistics/ Computer Science/ Economics/ Econometrics); MBA or equivalent experience would be plus 10+ years of relevant experience, preferably in business consulting, ecommerce, or financial services Expert Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills Knowledge of Databases and SQL is required Proficiency with statistical analysis [AB testing, causal impact analysis, synthetic test-control] Prior experience in pricing