Senior Manager / Lead Data Scientist

About the job

Responsibilities: • This individual will partner with eBay Paid Marketing team along with other cross functional teams to meet their analytic needs and conduct extensive analyses of eBay's rich data, generating insights, and communicating those insights to the team to guide the project roadmap. • In the process, this person will develop a deep understanding of eBay Marketplaces and site functionality, further strengthen their analytical, leadership, and presentation skills, and gain exposure to a wide variety of functional teams within eBay. • This person will bring strong technical, analytical, and strategic strengths with a deep background in statistics, mathematics, and/or engineering. We are looking for a very customer-focused Data Science Professional with who can contribute and build breakthrough, outstanding analytical solutions to help solve sophisticated problems and drive key business decisions. • Builds scalable AI based Products solving for end-to-end robust use cases. Defines standards for model development and deployment. Identifies and champions the adoption of new AI and quantitative methods, by staying abreast of industry trends and innovations. • Analytics at eBay is a multidisciplinary craft and it is foundational; it is a strategic arm that heavily influences critical decisions made by eBay leaders. As a Senior Manager / Lead Data Scientist, qualified candidates will also assume leadership responsibilities for departmental activities/responsibilities, including: • Advising, guiding, and counseling junior staff members as and when needed to ensure full team alignment and compliance with eBay Marketplaces policies and procedures. • Identifying, recruiting, hiring, developing, and mentoring top talent across a broader team. • Act as a functional leader for assigned Business areas/domains including defining Analytics roadmap, guiding Business strategy and influencing decision making. Day-to-day duties include: • Build close partnership with the business and product teams to Innovate, identify and explore new analytics and operational opportunities to help get 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 collaborating with commercial and development groups. • 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 standard methodologies.

Requirements

• Statistics
• Mathematics
• Problem-solving
• Data Science
• AI
• Analytical solutions

Qualifications

• BTech/BE/BS/BA degree in a quantitative field
• Master’s degree in similar field/MBA

Preferred Technologies

• Statistics
• Mathematics
• Problem-solving
• Data Science
• AI
• Analytical solutions

About the company

At eBay, we're more than a global ecommerce leader — we’re changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We’re committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts. Our customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work — every day. We're in this together, sustaining the future of our customers, our company, and our planet.