Principal, Corporate Strategy

eBay•San Jose, CA

About The Position

The eBay corporate strategy team is seeking a Principal, Corporate Strategy. Within this role, you will lead a cross-functional strategy project and a team of a few strategy team members. You will work with key stakeholders from all functions across the organization to craft strategies and drive structured and data-based recommendations to action. In this role, you will have the ability to influence key elements of eBay’s strategy and to help shape the strategic direction of eBay, working with eBay’s senior executives. The ideal candidate has a track record of making pragmatic, concrete recommendations with real world implementation experience. It is critical for the role that the candidate has strong analytic skills and is excellent in developing creative/ out-of-the-box and well-thought-out solutions for challenging business problems. You can either build a career in eBay’s strategy team or use this as stepping stone into other business and product roles at eBay.

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!
Proven leader with at least 7+ years of work experience - experience at a top strategy consulting firm is a must
Experienced project managers, currently working at top strategy consulting companies.
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
Bachelors Degree required

Nice To Haves

MBA or equivalent preferred
Expertise in technology and/or in e-commerce/retail is a plus

Responsibilities

Lead cross-functional projects to solve strategic business problems, working with senior eBay executives. Projects are usually 2-4 months long, staffed with 1-3 team members supporting the Principal. Topics can span eBay’s overall strategy, category strategies, buyer/seller strategies or functional strategies (e.g., payments, ads) or other relevant strategic topics.
Work with your team and analytics/ data science support to define smart analyses and generate new, compelling insights. Visualize in simple and compelling ways. Use the insights to 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 to solve the problem.
Develop compelling and concise storylines to communicate team’s recommendation; prepare and deliver presentations to senior leadership.
Develop a team of associates and managers to constantly improve and help them grow their career.