Sr. Director, Buyer Lifecycle Experience

San Jose, CA (On-site)

$240K/yr – $320K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead Global Buyer Lifecycle Experience at eBay, aligning a large distributed CRM team to AI-powered, personalized customer engagement and LTV across cross-functional partners.

  • Own CRM strategy and personalized communications across channels to raise engagement and lifetime value.
  • Must-have: proven leadership of large, global teams and data-driven decision making.
  • Standout: cross-functional scope with Marketing, Product, Tech, and Data Science.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Strategic Leadership: Align team against our strategic plan, focusing on customer engagement, driving sales and growing retention of buyers by delivering customer-centric, hyper-personalized CRM experiences.
  • Lead and mentor a large, distributed team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. Ensure the team is equipped with the necessary skills and resources to achieve business goals.
  • AI and Personalization: Leverage AI / data science and analytics to enhance the personalization and relevance of customer communications, driving improved engagement and lifetime value.
  • Performance Analysis: Apply data-driven insights to measure the efficiency of CRM initiatives. Continuously optimize strategies based on performance metrics, robust experimentation and customer feedback.
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Marketing, Product, Technology, Recommendations and Data Science, Analytics, and Regional/Category business unit teams to ensure cohesive and integrated customer experiences.
  • Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies in CRM, finding opportunities to innovate and enhance eBay's customer relationship strategies.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or a related field.
  • Technical depth and proven experience with building engaging, customer focused end to end user experiences; designing elegant solutions to complex problems that require integrations with multiple platforms, domains and services; and driving analysis of qualitative and quantitative data and metrics to derive opportunities, gaps and solutions.
  • Strong AI and data analytic acumen, and proven application using these tools to build personalized, scalable customer experiences
  • Excellent leadership and team management skills, with experience leading large, globally diverse teams.
  • Strong, concise communicator and effective story-teller; experience using both analytics and qualitative research to express the vision and strategy of the experience.
  • Proven ability to operate effectively at multiple levels including setting clear vision to diverse skills and rolling up your sleeves/deep diving on concepts when needed. Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, with the ability to thrive in a constantly evolving environment.
  • Experience in e-commerce, and an MBA, is highly desirable.
  • Up to 25% travel requirement

Preferred

  • MBA is highly desirable.

Benefits

  • including 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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Founded in 2022
San Jose, CA, US
16K employees (1,572 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
884K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
30.6%
Direct
40.2%
Referral
12%
Social
16.1%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~18K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,126 (6% of company)
Median Career Experience
16 years
Median Tenure
4.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
7

Funding

Total Funding
$1.2B
Last Raise
$1.2B
Post IPO Debt, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2022
    Post IPO Debt • $1.2B
  • Jan 1998
    Series Unknown
  • Jun 1997
    Series Unknown • $6.7M

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