Director, Corporate Strategy

About The Team

We are responsible for setting the strategic direction of eBay: our ambition, where we play, and how we win in the market. The team is responsible for deeply understanding the needs of our core buyers and sellers and crafting the strategies that will differentiate eBay relative to our competitors. We work very closely with product, technology, and regional business teams to ensure the strategy is translated into action across the end-to-end customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop the strategies for eBay to differentiate itself in the market. This will include crafting the strategies, developing the key initiatives to support the strategies and working closely with key eBay constituencies to gain consensus.
• Independently, lead cross-functional projects involving executive and senior partners from various parts of the organization.
• Thought leadership: Develop content and topic expertise, as well as perspectives on issues important to eBay’s strategy.
• Structure problems. Develop creative solutions to challenging business problems.
• Strategy Mobilization: Work with the eBay line organization as needed to support mobilization and implementation of the business strategies.
• Market and Competitive Analysis: Develop insightful market intelligence about key industry trends (technology, competitors, consumers, regulatory, etc.) and advise the organization of their strategic implications.
• Business Analytics: Drive business judgment, market understanding, problem solving, and fact-based analysis to identify, prioritize, structure, and solve challenging business problems.
• Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a driven strategy team in the development and execution of critical initiatives.
• Communication: Develop storylines for presentations, prepare and deliver presentations to senior leadership.
• Leading through uncertainty: Self-direct as well as manage resources on the strategy team and across the organization to deliver superior end-products in a dynamic industry and corporate environment.

Requirements

• Intellectual curiosity
• Excellence in structured thinking, developing sensible, creative solutions to challenging strategic business problems.
• Creativity and “out of the box” thinking that drives innovation.
• The ability to “see around corners” and “connect the dots” that enable business to proactively drive business.
• Strong executive presence and ability to communicate strategy clearly and simply. Ease with executive-level interactions.
• The ability to create clear and simple storylines.
• Proven track record to lead and mentor a driven strategy team in the development and execution of key initiatives. Ability to lead, empower and mentor project team members.
• Comfort in reaching out and prioritizing cross-functional collaboration in a highly matrixed environment.
• Outstanding analytical capabilities (quantitative and qualitative), ability to generate key insights.
• Comfort in handling uncertainty.
• Highly collaborative – be fun, and easy to work with!

Qualifications

• Proven leader with at least 10 years of work experience - at least 2-3 years at a top strategy consulting firm at project management level are a must
• Bachelor's Degree required, MBA or equivalent preferred
• Expertise in technology, ideally in e-commerce, retail, payments, and/or consumer facing products is highly desirable