Director, Seller Strategy — eBay Live

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About the Role

eBay Live is redefining commerce by bringing together content community and transactions in a real-time interactive format. Sellers are the foundation of this ecosystem. Their success directly drives buyer engagement trust and long-term GMV growth.

We are looking for a Director Seller Strategy to own the end-to-end seller ecosystem strategy for eBay Live. This role will define how we acquire activate scale and retain sellers globally while shaping the systems operating models and cross-functional alignment required to unlock supply at scale.

This is a high-impact leadership role with responsibility across strategy execution and influence. You will operate as the central orchestrator of seller growth partnering deeply across Product Business Development Marketing Trust and Operations.

What You Will Own

1. Define the End-to-End Seller Strategy

- Own the global seller strategy across onboarding activation growth and retention

- Define seller segmentation tiering and lifecycle frameworks

- Establish clear definitions of seller success (productivity retention GMV contribution quality)

- Translate insights into multi-year strategic roadmaps

2. Build and Scale the Seller Growth System

- Design the operating model for seller success across teams and geographies

- Define repeatable playbooks for onboarding activation and scaling sellers

- Drive improvements in time-to-first-live time-to-first-sale and seller ramp velocity

- Lead development of programs incentives and tools that accelerate seller growth

3. Own Seller Performance and Insights

- Establish a standardized metrics framework across the seller lifecycle

- Build a robust insights engine to identify patterns gaps and opportunities

- Drive WBRs MBRs and exec reporting with a clear seller narrative

- Ensure decisions across the org are grounded in data and seller truth

4. Drive Cross-Functional Alignment and Execution

- Act as the single-threaded leader for seller strategy across the organization

- Partner with Product to shape roadmap priorities grounded in seller needs

- Align with BD Marketing and Programming to ensure supply-demand fit

- Work with Trust and Policy to ensure safe high-quality seller experiences

- Resolve trade-offs and drive end-to-end decisions

5. Build the Future Seller Ecosystem (AI Native)

- Drive AI-native approaches to seller growth and operations

- Enable teams to move from static plans to dynamic agent-driven systems

- Leverage AI for seller insights recommendations and playbook automation

- Establish a culture of rapid experimentation and continuous optimization

What Youll Bring

- 1015 years of experience in marketplaces ecommerce or platform ecosystems

- Proven track record of owning and scaling supply-side or customer ecosystems

- Strong strategic thinking with the ability to translate ambiguity into clear direction

- Experience driving cross-functional alignment at scale without direct authority

- Deep analytical rigor with the ability to turn data into decisions and systems

- Experience influencing senior leadership and shaping org-level strategy

- Interest in live commerce creator ecosystems or content-driven marketplaces

- Strong bias for action ownership and building from zero to scale

- AI-native mindset with comfort leveraging agents automation and rapid prototyping

What Success Looks Like

- A clear scalable seller strategy adopted across the organization

- Significant improvement in seller activation productivity and retention

- Faster time-to-first-live and time-to-first-success for new sellers

- Strong alignment across Product BD Marketing and Trust on seller growth

- A repeatable system that consistently scales high-quality seller supply

- Sellers feel: It knows me Setup is easy I am in control

Why This Role Matters

This role is about building the foundation that allows eBay Live to scale. When this role works seller growth becomes a system not a series of initiatives.

Additional Details

This job posting relates to an existing vacancy within eBay.

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