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About the Role
The eBay corporate strategy team is seeking a Principal, Corporate Strategy to lead cross-functional strategy projects, craft strategies, and drive data-based recommendations. This role offers the opportunity to influence eBay's strategic direction and work closely with senior executives.
Responsibilities
- Lead cross-functional projects to solve strategic business problems, working with senior eBay executives.
- Define smart analyses and generate new, compelling insights, visualizing them in simple and compelling ways.
- Develop key recommendations grounded in data.
- Define and structure the core problem, understand status quo & competitive dynamics, define ambitions and value proposition, and create recommendations for key actions.
- Develop compelling and concise storylines to communicate team’s recommendations.
- Prepare and deliver presentations to senior leadership.
- Develop a team of associates and managers to constantly improve and help them grow their career.
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
- Excellence in structured thinking, developing creative solutions to challenging strategic business problems.
- Creativity and “out of the box” thinking that drives innovation.
- Ability to “see around corners” and “connect the dots” that enable business to proactively drive business
- Strong executive presence and ability to communicate strategy clearly and simply.
- Ease with executive-level interactions.
- Ability to create clear and simple storylines.
- Proven track record to lead and mentor a driven strategy team in the development and execution of key initiatives.
- Ability to lead, empower and mentor project team members
- Comfort in reaching out and prioritizing cross-functional collaboration in a highly matrixed environment
- Comfort in handling uncertainty
- Highly collaborative – be fun, and easy to work with!
Skills
- Strategy development
- Project management
- Financial modeling
- Business modeling
- Hypotheses development
- Strategic options identification
- Consensus building
- Implementation
- Analytical capabilities
- Quantitative analysis
- Qualitative analysis
- Structured thinking
- Creative problem-solving
- Communication
- Executive presence
- Mentoring
Location
- San Jose, California
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 7+ years of work experience
- Experience at a top strategy consulting firm is a must
- Leaders who spent at least 2-3 years at a top strategy consulting company and then advanced their careers for 4-5 years at a startup or corporate
Education Level
- Bachelors Degree required
- MBA or equivalent preferred
About the Company
- eBay is a global ecommerce leader changing the way the world shops and sells.
- Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets.
- We are committed to pushing boundaries and reinventing the future of ecommerce.
- Our customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work.
- We are in this together, sustaining the future of our customers, our company, and our planet.
- Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers to connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.
- eBay is a purpose-driven community dedicated to crafting an ambitious and inclusive workplace.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- eBay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability, or other legally protected status.
- We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
- We love creating opportunities for others by connecting people from widely diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and geographies. So, being diverse and inclusive isn’t just something we strive for, it is who we are, and part of what we do each and every single day.
- We want to ensure that as an employee, you feel eBay is a place where, no matter who you are, you feel safe, included, and that you have the opportunity to bring your unique self to work.