Project Manager(W2) Jobs

Job Title: Project Manager - Ads

Location: US any

Role Description

The Advertising Team is reinventing advertising at eBay! We’re creating innovative ad-tech solutions to optimize the ad monetization and experience on eBay. Our goal is to create a valuable experience for both buyers and sellers, while also driving performance for advertisers. To that end, we are innovating rapidly in the ad-tech space and there is no shortage of new challenges for motivated individuals.

Read about some of our products and recent work here:

• Http://www.ebayads.com
• Https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/listing-and-marketing/promoted-listings.html

We are looking for an experienced Project Manager to join the Advertising organization, one of the fastest growing teams at eBay. Your focus will be on delivering complex projects from inception to implementation. You’ll get to partner with stakeholders horizontally and vertically within the organization - across product managers, engineers & technical leads, product marketing managers, sales and operations. You will be reporting directly into a Sr. Program Manager.

Responsibilities

• Anticipate, assess and manage issues and risks; perform as needed root cause analysis and recommend mitigation plans
• Develop presentations and supporting documentation for various forums and partners
• Lead key operating rhythms within the advertising team and between partner teams; ensure that everyone is working together helping solving cross org issues / communication / partner concerns
• Run end to end lifecycle of complex projects that contribute to the Advertising roadmap, from concept and initiation to release and go to market
• Ensure clear status reporting is happening at all levels, whether at the sponsor level or day to day team members
• Build, document, and improve processes across geographically distributed teams/partners in order to optimize efficiency in a fast-pace environment

Requirements

• Knowledge of Agile development practices; prior experience with Lean and/or Six Sigma analytical techniques
• Ability to take initiative even under unfamiliar or ambiguous circumstances, under little or no supervision
• Willingness to be hands-on and do whatever is vital
• Prioritize competing priorities without loss of efficiency or visibility
• Manage multiple partners at various level in the organization and working with them all equally, proactively and transparently
• Capable of ensuring action items are clear and followed through, regardless of stakeholder seniority.
• Experience working in an end to end, cross functional environment with engineering, design, product, sales, ops, and project management counterparts to deliver products/services
• Demonstrated track record of leading large-scale projects in a product environment from conception through completion
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
• 5+ years of project management experience with partners within Program/Product/Engineering/Sales/Ops organizations
• Clear and concise communication, documentation and presentations to your program manager and leads, and timely escalations of potential risks.
• Ability to work with teams composed of both technical and non-technical members.