[Remote] Sr. Mgr, Portfolio Strategy & Operations

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. eBay is a global ecommerce leader committed to reinventing the future of shopping and selling. They are seeking a Senior Manager, Portfolio Strategy & Operations to drive strategic planning and execution of global technology initiatives while leading cross-functional teams and modernizing governance. This role plays a crucial part in translating strategy into execution and improving collaboration across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategic planning approach for Global Technology, including calendar, standards, and leadership alignment
• Drive clarity on priorities, tradeoffs, and success measures across GT and partner organizations
• Represent and advocate for engineering priorities in cross-functional and enterprise planning and operating forums with clear recommendations grounded in execution reality
• Evaluate planning effectiveness and continuously improve the process to reduce friction, improve clarity, and increase adoption
• Maintain a trusted portfolio view of GT priorities, deliverables, resourcing assumptions, risks, dependencies, and operating health
• Establish and run portfolio governance mechanisms that keep initiative reporting consistent, outcomes focused, and decision ready
• Partner with Finance and People teams on capacity and headcount planning and hiring prioritization using structured, clear inputs
• Ensure leadership can quickly see what is on track, what is blocked, what has changed, and what decisions are needed
• Lead execution for high-impact initiatives that cut across teams, including integrated plans, dependency management, and partner alignment
• Drive delivery rigor through clear ownership, risk management, removing blockers, and strong operating rhythms
• Deliver measurable outcomes by setting clear achievements, keeping execution signals current, and closing programs with documented takeaways that improve future execution
• Shape executive agendas and forums such as GT Ops Review into decision engines by framing options, tradeoffs, recommendations, and closed-loop follow-through
• Surface cross-team misalignment early and drive resolution through clear framing, customer alignment, and timely addressing when needed
• Lead ambiguous, time-sensitive, or high-visibility workstreams on behalf of GT leadership, driving them from definition to measurable outcomes
• Find opportunities to streamline planning, reporting, and governance, reducing manual effort through tooling, automation, and responsible AI use
• Build and scale repeatable playbooks such as templates, decision logs, governance standards, and reporting guidance that help teams self-serve and move faster
• Design and drive adoption of ways-of-working improvements, including decision rights, standards, and cross-org interlocks that reduce friction and increase accountability

Skills

• Typically 10+ years in business operations, strategy & operations, management consulting, program leadership, product/engineering operations, or related roles (or an equivalent combination of education and experience)
• Track record leading cross-functional programs from definition through measurable outcomes
• Strong communication skills and the ability to produce concise, decision ready materials for senior leaders
• Technical fluency across the software development lifecycle and modern engineering practices, with credibility in engineering discussions
• Strong analytical skills and proficiency in working directly in data, including Sheets or Excel and dashboarding or reporting tools
• Strong judgment and discretion to handle sensitive topics and ambiguous situations
• Analytical and structured problem-solving skills (able to synthesize qualitative and quantitative inputs)
• Experience in a large-scale, global engineering organization
• Familiarity with operating models (portfolio governance, operating reviews such as WBR/MBR/QBR, scorecards)
• Experience designing or improving operating mechanisms (governance, decision rights, operating cadences, cross-org interlocks)
• Proficiency with portfolio and planning tools (e.g., Jira/Airtable/Jellyfish) and dashboarding/reporting tools

Benefits

• A target bonus
• Restricted stock units (as applicable)
• A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave)

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