Sr. Partner Manager eBay Live

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Job Title: Sr. Partner Manager eBay Live Customer Success

Lead the strategy, performance, and operational excellence of third-party partners supporting eBay Live seller acquisition, onboarding, activation, and account management. Own partner relationships and business outcomes, driving seller growth, retention, and GMV through high-performing outsourced teams. This role combines strategic leadership, commercial accountability, and entrepreneurial execution, requiring a leader who can operate autonomously, influence cross-functional stakeholders, and build scalable partner operations in a rapidly evolving business.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Partner Leadership: Own relationships with third-party Customer Success partners, serving as the primary business leader responsible for aligning partner strategy, capabilities, and execution with eBay Live's growth priorities.
• Commercial Performance & Accountability: Drive partner performance across seller acquisition, onboarding, activation, retention, and GMV growth; establish ambitious performance expectations and hold partners accountable for delivering measurable business outcomes.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Partner closely with eBay Live, Business Unit, Product, Operations, Finance, and other functional leaders to align priorities, influence strategic decisions, and ensure partner capabilities support evolving business needs.
• Entrepreneurial Leadership: Operate with a high degree of autonomy in a rapidly evolving environment, proactively anticipating challenges, identifying growth opportunities, and building innovative solutions to improve partner effectiveness and scale.
• Partner Strategy & Scalability: Develop and execute strategies to expand partner capabilities, optimize delivery models, and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and long-term business impact.
• Performance Management & Governance: Own KPIs, performance scorecards, business reviews, and accountability mechanisms; translate performance insights into actionable improvement plans and measurable results.
• Operational Excellence: Drive consistent execution across Business Development, Onboarding & Activation, and Account Management functions, ensuring partners deliver against established productivity, quality, and seller experience standards.
• Continuous Improvement & Innovation: Identify opportunities to optimize workflows, processes, tooling, and operating models; leverage data, seller feedback, and operational insights to improve productivity, seller outcomes, and partner performance.
• Risk Management & Escalations: Proactively identify and resolve operational risks, performance gaps, and complex escalations while ensuring partners maintain alignment with eBay's policies, values, and business standards.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing strategic third-party partnerships with demonstrated accountability for commercial performance and business outcomes.
• Strong track record of driving growth, operational excellence, and measurable performance improvements across large-scale sales, customer success, or commercial operations.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior partner leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, navigate complex organizational dynamics, and drive accountability without direct reporting authority.
• Entrepreneurial, self-directed leader with experience building and scaling programs in ambiguous, fast-paced environments; comfortable challenging established approaches, anticipating change, and creating structure where playbooks do not exist.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, including experience with partner performance models, capacity planning, resource optimization, and cost-to-serve management.
• Data-driven leader with experience establishing KPIs, analyzing performance trends, identifying root causes, and translating insights into actionable business strategies.
• Proven ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives, manage competing priorities, and deliver results through effective project management and stakeholder alignment.
• Excellent communication, relationship management, and executive presence, with the ability to build trust, negotiate effectively, and influence decisions across internal and external leadership teams.
• High standards of integrity, accountability, and professionalism, with a commitment to building partnerships aligned with organizational values and seller experience expectations.
• Experience in ecommerce, marketplaces, digital platforms, or outsourced sales and customer success operations preferred.

Plus

*Live experience is a strong plus

*Chinese Mandarin is a plus

Additional Details

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