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About the role and the team:

At eBay, we believe great products don’t just happen—they’re built with passion, collaboration, and a drive to make things better.   That’s where the Core Product Excellence team comes in. Our mission is to improve how we build and launch products that Buyers and Sellers around the world love.  We are dedicated to optimizing every stage of the product development lifecycle—streamlining processes, accelerating delivery, and empowering cross-functional teams to focus on outcomes and magical customer experiences.   If you’re excited about shaping the way great products come to life and improving experiences for millions, we’d love for you to join us!

As the Portfolio Program Lead, you will oversee the product portfolio for one or more major initiatives, ensuring strategic alignment between the product roadmap, business goals, and execution timelines. Your mission is to optimize readiness, execution, utilization, and velocity across teams and domains, driving impact through structured planning and execution.

This role is the single point of contact (POC) for all initiative roadmap related questions from both internal and external partners and is solely accountable for:

• Execution Planning & Tracking: Ensuring all projects within the initiative are planned and driven effectively.

• Resource Alignment & Replanning: Adjusting plans as priorities evolve.

• Delivery Accountability: Holding cross-functional partners accountable for commitments.

• Issue Resolution & Support: Handling partner concerns and unblocking teams, supporting TPMs and Domain PMOs..

• Operations & Communications: Owning initiative product operations and cross-functional communication.

What you will accomplish:

• Maintain a portfolio-level view of all initiatives, serving as the source of truth for project status, resource allocation, risks, and dependencies.

• Drive annual and ongoing planning cycles, ensuring initiatives are scoped, resourced, and aligned with strategic company goals.

• Facilitate cross-functional prioritization discussions to ensure initiatives support overall business strategy.

• Provide senior leadership with clear, up-to-date access to execution progress, key decisions, and potential roadblocks.

• Lead capacity planning and resource estimation across the portfolio to ensure teams are effectively supported.

• Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies, implementing solutions that improve execution and delivery across programs.

• Optimize operational impact by introducing automation, improving workflows, and refining executional processes.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for the portfolio, ensuring transparency and clear communication across all partners.

• Own and manage product and program cadences, delivering executive-ready updates and driving alignment across teams.

• Collaborate with engineering, product, design, and business leaders to align roadmaps, trade-offs, and strategic priorities.

• Monitor and proactively manage risks, advancing issues as needed and developing mitigation plans to maintain momentum.

• Provide tactical execution support to teams, helping unblock challenges and drive clarity around complex problems.

• Take direct ownership of high-impact, critical initiatives when necessary to ensure successful delivery.

• Partner with TPMs and DPMs to promote standard methodologies and strengthen program management capabilities across the organization.

• Champion transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement across all aspects of portfolio execution.