Principal, Corporate Strategy

eBay; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

eBay is seeking a Principal, Corporate Strategy to lead cross-functional strategy projects and guide a small team. You will collaborate with executives across functions to shape strategic directions and deliver data-driven recommendations that influence key business choices.

The role requires strong analytical abilities, pragmatic problem-solving, and the ability to translate insights into compelling presentations for senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in corporate strategy or management consulting.
• Strong analytical and financial modeling skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional strategy projects across the organization.
• Develop insights with analytics/data science support.
• Present recommendations to senior leadership and drive actions.
• Mentor associates and managers to grow their careers.

Skills

Project management

Strategy development

Analytical capabilities

Communication

People leadership

Job description

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.

The Company

Looking for a company that inspires passion, courage and creativity, where you can be part of the team shaping the future of global commerce? Want to shape how millions of people buy, sell, connect, and share around the world? If you're interested in joining a purpose driven community that is dedicated to crafting an ambitious and inclusive workplace, join eBay - a company you can be proud to be a part of.

With ~150 million active buyers across 190 countries and over 1 billion active product listings, eBay is the world's most vibrant and dynamic online marketplace. Founded in 1995, eBay Inc. connects people around the world, enabling them to buy and sell online. eBay Inc. is headquartered in San Jose, California. For more information about the company and its global portfolio of online brands, visitwww.ebayinc.com

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 corporate strategy has a reputation of solving the most challenging problems and coming up with innovative and out-of-the-box solutions, with recommendations grounded in data.

We work very closely with senior leadership and have a high visibility. Team members can have a fast-track career in strategy or move into the business after 1-2 years.

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. Our work can be divided into 3 main topics: 1) we develop eBay Inc's strategy together with eBay's executives, 2) we run strategic projects to solve key strategic issues supporting select executives at eBay, 3) we closely monitor the competitive environment & trends.

The opportunity

The eBay corporate strategy team is seeking a Principal, Corporate Strategy. Within this role, you will lead a cross-functional strategy project and a team of a few strategy team members. You will work with key stakeholders from all functions across the organization to craft strategies and drive structured and data-based recommendations to action. In this role, you will have the ability to influence key elements of eBay's strategy and to help shape the strategic direction of eBay, working with eBay's senior executives. The ideal candidate has a track record of making pragmatic, concrete recommendations with real world implementation experience. It is critical for the role that the candidate has strong analytic skills and is excellent in developing creative/ out-of-the-box and well-thought-out solutions for challenging business problems. You can either build a career in eBay’s strategy team or use this as stepping stone into other business and product roles at eBay.

Role Responsibilities

• Project leadership: Lead cross-functional projects to solve strategic business problems, working with senior eBay executives. Projects are usually 2-4 months long, staffed with 1-3 team members supporting the Principal. Topics can span eBay's overall strategy, category strategies, buyer/seller strategies or functional strategies (e.g., payments, ads) or other relevant strategic topics
• Insights generation: Work with your team and analytics/ data science support to define smart analyses and generate new, compelling insights. Visualize in simple and compelling ways. Use the insights to develop key recommendations grounded in data
• Strategy Development: Define and structure the core problem, understand status quo & competitive dynamics, define ambitions and value proposition and create recommendations for key actions to solve the problem
• Communication: Develop compelling and concise storylines to communicate team’s recommendation; prepare and deliver presentations to senior leadership
• People leadership: Develop a team of associates and managers to constantly improve and help them grow their career

Job Requirements

• Intellectual curiosity
• Skilled in project management and strategy development, including project prioritization, hypotheses development, financial and business modeling, strategic options identification, consensus building, and implementation
• Outstanding analytical capabilities (quantitative and qualitative), ability to define relevant analyses in a hypothesis-driven approach, generating new & groundbreaking insights grounded in data