Senior Product Manager, Ad Relevance

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About the team and the role:

We have built one of the largest Ad marketplaces in e-commerce, and one of the fastest-growing businesses within the company. We are on a mission to help sellers and brands of all sizes use advertising to drive meaningful impact for their businesses. We are accomplishing this by developing one of the most data-enhanced ad marketplaces in the world.

As the Senior Product Manager, Ad Relevance you will lead key advertising technologies within our stack and make them outstanding in delivering speed for advertisers. You will identify and improve key levers of ad quality including Ad Relevance and quality. You will drive innovation in billion-dollar products by investing in new growth opportunities.

What you will accomplish:

• Drive Product and Business Strategy
• Develop deep understanding of our advertisers and their needs.
• Lead the roadmap for critical components of ad serving and user targeting.
• Champion innovation in AI, generative models, automation, and intelligent defaults to transform the advertiser journey
• Partner closely with commercial and finance teams to align technical roadmaps with overarching business strategy
• Complete relentlessly on product requirements with engineering and analytics teams
• Push product and engineering teams to pioneer breakthroughs and lead innovations within the broader ad tech community
• Cultivate a culture of progress driven by applying rigorous experimentation, A/B testing, and deep data analysis
• Represent your product area in senior leadership forums, seamlessly translating complex technical strategies into clear business impacts
• Collaborate with program and operations teams to guarantee flawless roadmap execution and timely delivery

What you will bring:

• 7 + years of experience in technology product management, with 3–5 years of dedicated experience in pay-per-click search advertising, preferably in ad relevance.
• Hands-on experience developing products working with Applied Science researchers and ML engineers.
• Understanding of ad serving infrastructure, and core ad stack architecture within marketplaces, e-commerce, or high-scale consumer platforms
• Knowledge of industry standards in relevance measurement and techniques for improvement.
• Strong technical proficiency with a confirmed ability to understand how brand-new backend systems advance product metrics
• Deep analytical capability with a data-first approach and outstanding experimentation skills
• Outstanding storytelling and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence senior collaborators and cross-functional partners

Additional Details

This job posting relates to an existing vacancy within eBay.

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