Sr. Technical Program Manager, Search

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At eBay were more than a global ecommerce leader were transforming how the world shops and sells. Our platform connects millions of buyers and sellers in over 190 markets crafting economic opportunities for all. Our customers guide us authenticity thrives bold ideas are encouraged and everyone can bring their outstanding selves to work every day.

About the Team:

The Search Recommendations & Product Knowledge (SRPK) team builds the systems that power buyer discovery across eBay. We combine core shopping experiences with the data and intelligence behind them to better understand products buyer intent and contextand deliver more relevant intuitive and personalized experiences at scale.

As a Senior Technical Program Manager you will lead complex cross-functional projects spanning SRPK. You will partner with Product Engineering Data Science Design and Analytics to shape direction align stakeholders and drive execution on high-priority initiatives.

This is a senior IC role for someone who can do more than execute. Were looking for a strategic thought partner who can bring clarity to ambiguity set priorities across competing work and guide sound tradeoffs in a large-scale engineering-heavy environment.

• Lead large cross-functional programs across Search Recommendations and Product Knowledge from concept through launch.

• Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to shape roadmaps clarify tradeoffs and align work to customer and business priorities.

• Focus teams on the highest-value work by driving prioritization as business needs timing or capacity shifts.

• Drive execution across Product Engineering Data Science Design Analytics and partner teams to manage dependencies surface risks and maintain momentum.

• Drive ambiguous problems toward clear decisions actionable plans and strong execution rhythms.

• Partner with engineering teams to improve scalability reliability and operational readiness across the systems behind buyer discovery.

• Define and track success metrics across customer experience adoption quality and operational performance.

• 810 years of technical program management experience leading complex cross-functional technical programs end to end.

• A strong track record of driving large programs or portfolios across multiple teams systems and planning cycles.

• Excellent stakeholder management and influence skills including the ability to align senior partners and navigate competing priorities without direct authority.

• Strong prioritization planning dependency management and risk management skills.

• The ability to move comfortably between technical discussions with engineers and strategic conversations with cross-functional leaders.

• Experience delivering customer-facing products and/or platform capabilities in search recommendations personalization knowledge systems catalog data ML or similarly complex technical domains.

• Strong communication skills sound judgment and a calm structured approach in ambiguous environments.

• Experience in ecommerce marketplace or discovery-driven product environments.

• Familiarity with ranking relevance personalization entities taxonomies schemas or related intelligent systems concepts.

• Experience improving execution through planning cadences dashboards or tools such as Airtable or Claude Code.

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 RRSP eligibility 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.

This job posting relates to an existing vacancy within eBay.

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