Senior Product Manager, Ad Ranking

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Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers - and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.

About the team and the role:

The Search advertising team is responsible for the search page that drives a large part of eBay’s core marketplace business. The Search team strives to build an experience that enables users to easily explore, find, and buy what they want at the best value through an engaging, frictionless, and trusted Search experience, helping them make confident purchase decisions.

In this role, you will be responsible for efficient ad ranking that optimizes for monetization and user engagement. Your expertise will drive the development of AI-driven features that improve product discovery, engagement, and user experience. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in AI/ML technologies, along with a passion for applying these skills to redefine the way customers interact with our platform.

What you will accomplish:

• Lead the product strategy and roadmap for improving upper funnel experience on search
• Be a strategic problem solver and able to synthesize data from multiple sources (including analytics, user research, marketing research, and design) to identify key customer unmet needs, key solutions that can address the needs and build product vision with search item tiles 
• You will work closely with a cross-functional team of applied science, engineering, analytics, product marketing, and user research to deliver these products for key customer segments.
• You will lead the execution of your roadmap by working with data science, engineering, and analytics teams
• Build MVPs, iterate fast and be the champion of execution excellence
• Conduct AB tests for launch candidates and work with analytics teams to measure the impact on success metrics

What you will bring:

• 7+ years of Product Management experience
• Experience with search and discovery systems, including familiarity with ranking models, search algorithms, and semantic search
• Experience in pay-per-click search advertising.
• Strong analytic skills and ability to synthesize data from multiple sources
• Passionate advocate for user, and has confirmed results in achieving superb user experience within tight constraints
• Demonstrated leadership ability, self-motivated and directed, entrepreneurial ability to innovate quickly

Additional Details

This job posting relates to an existing vacancy within eBay.

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