Senior Manager eBay Live Data Science

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. Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all. About eBay Live eBay Live is eBay’s interactive live shopping platform where sellers and creators broadcast in real time and buyers participate through chat, bidding, and instant purchases. It combines entertainment, community, and commerce into an engaging, trust-supported method to explore and shop. Join us to develop the analytics and AI foundation that drives discovery, engagement, and quality moderation throughout Live. It’s a prominent, priority growth initiative with considerable potential—an opportunity to create tangible impact at marketplace scale.

As a Senior Manager of Data Science, you will lead the analytics strategy and delivery for a whole domain. You will develop and implement high-impact, resource-intensive programs that align partners with company goals. You will also build the vision and standards for analytics within eBay Live. You will set technical standards across teams and ensure methodological rigor. You will also lead collaboration across product, engineering, business, and peer analytics. This work supports shipping scalable solutions and reusable building blocks. This role energizes the Data Science engine powering eBay Live’s swift growth. Responsibilities include prioritizing tasks, managing dependencies and risks, and establishing methods that increase quality and speed across the domain to deliver measurable results. What You’ll Do You will own one of the following domains: setting strategy, metrics taxonomy, and experimentation standards. You will lead through others, align cross‑functional teams, and improve analytical rigor and outcomes. Buyer Product Analytics: Manage domain analytics strategy and roadmap; define a unified metrics taxonomy and experimentation criteria; guide programs that promote continuous progress in discovery, engagement, and conversion. Seller Product & Seller Success: Define the growth analytics agenda across acquisition, onboarding, listing quality, conversion, and retention; govern causal measurement and experimentation; ship reusable measurement assets and instrumentation that scale. Lead category and market selection and sequencing. Run pilots to reduce launch risks. Align partners on metrics taxonomy, definitions, and instrumentation. Track expansion outcomes with clear cadences. Trust & Safety: Own risk modeling and guardrail standards; align business/product/engineering on signals, definitions, and measurement; balance fraud prevention with good‑actor experience through evidence‑based decisions. Data Foundation & Instrumentation: Set event/metric taxonomies, instrumentation quality, and coding/verification standards; build semantic layers/templates; align architecture and data products across teams for consistency and speed. Business Performance: Own the domain scorecard and governance of critical metrics. Run weekly, monthly, and quarterly performance reviews. Drive executive-level decisions with clear, outcome-focused narratives based on shared metrics and experiments. What You Bring Demonstrates hands-on technical depth by prototyping strategic tools and validating methods. They dive into complex analyses when needed. They are proficient in SQL/Python, advanced experimentation, econometrics/time-series, causal inference, dashboarding,