Executive Communications Strategy Lead

eBay; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) eligibility

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

eBay is seeking a Senior Manager, Executive Communications to shape enterprise-wide messaging and lead content for leadership meetings and major events. You will craft agendas, speaking points, and run-of-show materials, partnering with senior leaders and cross-functional teams.

You’ll drive content strategy, prepare executives for forums and town halls, and incorporate AI tools to streamline workflows while maintaining clarity, authenticity, and impact across the organization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in executive communications, internal communications, corporate communications, employee communications, change communications, leadership communications, corporate event content production, or a related field.
• Experience planning and driving enterprise-wide initiatives, transformation efforts, business priorities, or cross-functional programs with high visibility and business impact.
• Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills, with the ability to make complex business topics simple, compelling, and employee-relevant.
• Experience supporting senior executives and preparing leaders for companywide forums, employee meetings, leadership engagements, global town halls, business updates, and organizational change moments.
• Strong experience producing leadership communications programs and large corporate meetings, including agenda development, content flow, speaker preparation, presentation content, talking points, scripts, briefing materials, Q&A, run-of-show inputs, and follow-up communications.
• Experience supporting large-scale leadership meetings, executive forums, or internal events, with the ability to connect event objectives, business priorities, audience needs, and executive messaging into a cohesive content strategy.
• Ability to build trusted relationships across functions and levels, connecting dots between leadership priorities, employee sentiment, business needs, and organizational context.
• A strategic mindset combined with strong operational discipline; you can define the communications approach and also drive the work through to execution.
• Comfort using AI tools and emerging technologies to improve quality, speed, consistency, and efficiency in communications workflows.
• Ability to wear multiple hats in a dynamic environment, shifting between strategist, writer, advisor, project manager, operator, producer, and problem-solver.

Responsibilities

• Support executive communications for key companywide initiatives, ensuring leaders are equipped with clear, consistent, and compelling messaging.
• Help produce and support major enterprise-wide leadership communications moments, including multi-day senior leadership meetings, global town halls, executive forums, and other high-visibility internal events.
• Serve as a communications and content lead for large-scale leadership meetings, driving the content flow, agenda development, speaker strategy, messaging, presentation narrative, and follow-up communications.
• Develop agendas, speaker briefs, executive prep materials, run-of-show inputs, key messages, leader talking points, scripts, Q&A, and post-event communications for major leadership and employee engagement forums.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders and event leads to ensure leadership meetings and enterprise forums have a clear narrative arc, strong speaker preparation, well-developed content, and messaging that reinforces business priorities and leadership alignment.
• Create executive-ready materials, including talking points, leader messages, presentations, scripts, Q&A documents, briefing materials, internal announcements, employee-facing narratives, and leader toolkits.
• Apply AI and automation thoughtfully to improve communications operations, including content development workflows, message versioning, knowledge management, measurement, stakeholder coordination, and executive prep processes.
• Serve as a trusted communications advisor who can anticipate needs, identify risks, simplify complexity, and help leaders communicate with clarity, credibility, and authenticity.
• Manage multiple priorities at once, often across fast-moving initiatives, while maintaining high standards for quality, accuracy, discretion, and stakeholder experience.
• Use data, feedback, and employee insights to evaluate communications effectiveness and continuously improve programs, channels, meetings, messaging, and leader engagement.

Skills

Executive communications

Internal communications

Storytelling

Editing

Strategic communications

AI tools in communications

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

AI tools

Job description

eBay is seeking a Senior Manager, Executive Communications to shape enterprise-wide messaging and lead content for leadership meetings and major events. You will craft agendas, speaking points, and run-of-show materials, partnering with senior leaders and cross-functional teams.

You’ll drive content strategy, prepare executives for forums and town halls, and incorporate AI tools to streamline workflows while maintaining clarity, authenticity, and impact across the organization.