TCGplayer Tech Lead

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About the team and the role:

An eBay subsidiary TCGplayer is on a quest to be the most trusted trading card game (TCG) platform connecting and empowering the hobby community. Trading card games are a $25B global market that creates community connection through inperson games (Pokemon; Magic: The Gathering; YiGiOh; etc.. Founded by and for TCG enthusiasts we operate a global marketplace and create tools technologies and solutions that help small businesses simply and profitably sell TCGs at scale.

TCGplayer is looking for a technical lead to provide onsite leadership and guidance to our growing engineering and product teams. This team is part of eBays Global Capability Center (GCC) being launched in Bengaluru India.

In this role you will work closely with the rest of the eBay onsite leadership team as well as TCGplayer leaders in the US to create a collaborative culture of delivery in a new eBay GCC. You will help drive hiring and provide ongoing employee support and guidance as the TCGplayer team scales. You will have dottedline responsibility for a team of TCGplayer engineers starting with 25 in July expanding to 40 by yearend and potentially reaching 6080 over the next few years. These employees will maintain solidline reporting to their respective USbased engineering leaders and your role will be critical in providing daytoday support mentorship and ensuring alignment with TCGplayer priorities. From the outset building a cohesive highperforming and valuesdriven culture that reflects eBays core values will be essential. As a key culture champion for both TCGplayer and eBay you will help shape an inspiring and collaborative work environment in India.

You will become the center point of contact as the senior leader for TCGplayer onsite in India connecting with TCGplayers USbased business as needed and liasoning with eBay peers and partners in the India location and beyond. You will establish and evangelize for everything the TCGplayer team needs to work in concert to deliver on software development cloud engineering product advancement and implementations critical to achieving TCGplayer goals and objectives as part of eBay. As we mature onsite you will help establish and support new waves of resources as we extend TCGplayers development and product teams in India.

What you will accomplish:

• Lead the daytoday site operations in India for TCGplayer inside eBays GCC serving as the seniormost TCGplayer representative onsite.

• Build and promote the eBay brand in India fostering a highperformance culture that attracts develops and retains toptier talent.

• Provide ontheground project management and oversight for teams across multiple functions including Product Identity DevOps Cloud Platform Data and Mobile.

• Serve as the cultural and technical bridge between India and US teams ensuring alignment on strategy product vision engineering roadmaps and delivery outcomes.

• Partner with eBay and TCGplayer leaders and stakeholders to grow and scale the India organization continuously improving delivery capability culture and retention.

• Drive cost efficiency and operational excellence maximizing productivity while fostering an inclusive and collaborative environment.

• Lead sitelevel governance practices and operations ensuring alignment with our strategic goals and standards.

• Champion team cohesion and transparent communication reinforcing eBay/TCGplayers values and building a unified culture across functions and geographies.

• Provide excellent support for directline managers in hiring mentoring and career development strategies to build and sustain highperforming product engineering and operational teams in India.

What you will bring:

Must Haves:

• 15 years of experience in product development and/or software engineering including expertise in architecture with at least 5 years in senior leadership roles (VP/ Senior Director).

• 5 years of experience leading Indiabased GCCs or Centers of Excellence (CoEs) working closely with USbased business and technology leaders.

• Proven ability to support scaling of highperforming engineering teams in India fostering a strong team culture aligned with global organizational values.

• Experience leading crossfunctional crossborder teams and enabling alignment across product engineering and business stakeholders.

• Exceptional leadership people development and communication skills with the ability to influence across levels functions and geographies.

• Demonstrated success in overseeing site operations talent development and delivery .

• Strong business and product mindset with the ability to guide technology teams through tradeoffs in support of customer experience speed and strategic impact.

• Comfortable representing the India site in global leadership forums and serving as a cultural and operational bridge between geographies.

You will bring extra value if you happen to have:

• Any experience with eBay in your past career.

• Strong technical background in relevant areas of our tech stack .NET Java Vue AWS Snowflake etc..

• Deep understanding of enterprise architectures modern SDLC and platform development.

• Experience in highscale consumerfacing ecommerce or digital platform companies.

• Experience in product development within USbased ecommerce or Fortune 500 technology companies with handson experience operating in or leading Indiabased GCCs especially in a highscale fastpaced environment.

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