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About the role and the team:

At eBay, we believe great products don’t just happen—they’re built with passion, collaboration, and a drive to make things better. That’s where the Core Product Excellence team comes in. Our mission is to improve how we build and launch products that Buyers and Sellers around the world love. We are dedicated to optimizing every stage of the product development lifecycle—streamlining processes, accelerating delivery, and empowering cross-functional teams to focus on outcomes and magical customer experiences. If you’re excited about shaping the way great products come to life and improving experiences for millions, we’d love for you to join us!

As the Initiative Portfolio Program Lead, you will oversee the product portfolio for one or more major initiatives, ensuring strategic alignment between the product roadmap, business goals, and execution timelines. Your mission is to optimize readiness, execution, utilization, and velocity across teams and domains, driving impact through structured planning and execution.

This role is the single point of contact (POC) for all initiative roadmap related questions from both internal and external stakeholders and is solely accountable for:

• Execution Planning & Tracking: Ensuring all projects within the initiative are planned and executed effectively.

• Resource Alignment & Replanning: Adjusting plans as priorities evolve.

• Delivery Accountability: Holding cross-functional partners accountable for commitments.

• Issue Resolution & Support: Managing escalations and unblocking teams, supporting TPMs and Domain PMOs.

• Operations & Communications: Owning initiative product operations and cross-functional communication.

What you will accomplish:

• Maintain a portfolio-level view of all initiatives, serving as the source of truth for project status, resource allocation, risks, and dependencies.

• Drive annual and ongoing planning cycles, ensuring initiatives are scoped, resourced, and aligned with strategic company goals.

• Facilitate cross-functional prioritization discussions to ensure initiatives support overall business strategy.

• Provide senior leadership with clear, up-to-date visibility into execution progress, key decisions, and potential roadblocks.

• Lead capacity planning and resource estimation across the portfolio to ensure teams are effectively supported.

• Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies, implementing solutions that improve execution and delivery across programs.

• Optimize operational impact by introducing automation, improving workflows, and refining executional processes.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for the portfolio, ensuring transparency and clear communication across all stakeholders.

• Own and manage product and program cadences, delivering executive-ready updates and driving alignment across teams.

• Collaborate with engineering, product, design, and business leaders to align roadmaps, trade-offs, and strategic priorities.

• Monitor and proactively manage risks, escalating issues as needed and developing mitigation plans to maintain momentum.

• Provide tactical execution support to teams, helping unblock challenges and drive clarity around complex problems.

• Take direct ownership of high-impact, strategic initiatives when necessary to ensure successful delivery.

• Partner with TPMs and DPMs to promote best practices and strengthen program management capabilities across the organization.

• Champion transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement across all aspects of portfolio execution.

What you will bring:

• 8+ years of program or portfolio management experience in a product or technology organization (experience in engineering or product teams preferred).

• Proven ability to manage complex project portfolios, drive execution planning, and maintain visibility across multiple initiatives.

• Experience in building execution tracking frameworks and resource planning methodologies.

• Strong expertise in capacity planning, resource estimation, and strategic execution frameworks.

• Ability to navigate complex organizational structures, driving alignment across multiple teams.

• Proficiency with program tracking tools (e.g., Airtable, JIRA, Smartsheet, Confluence).

• Strong facilitation skills to lead prioritization discussions, drive trade-off decisions, and influence leadership.

• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills.

• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and drive clarity.

• Experience working in large-scale distributed engineering environments, ensuring teams are aligned, efficient, and well-supported.

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 401(k) eligibility and 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.

If hired, employees will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

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