Senior Manager, Live Risk Strategy

eBay

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Jose, CA
Salary
$195,000–$215,000 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Similar $195k
This role $205k
$142k most similar roles pay here $244k

This role pays more than 57% of similar roles. Most pay $169,500–$221,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $205k versus about $195k for comparable roles.

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eBay is a global e-commerce company that operates an online marketplace connecting buyers and sellers for a wide range of new and used goods.

eBay currently has 28 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $188,800–$227,500 across 27 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Manager, Live Risk Strategy

As a Senior Manager, Live Risk Strategy on the Risk team, you will own and scale the end-to-end Seller Risk framework for eBay Live. You will manage seller risk losses, develop loss forecasting models with Data Science partners, and make critical risk-reward trade-off decisions to protect against fraud and compliance gaps. Your daily work involves defining how live sellers are evaluated, onboarded, monitored, and graduated across global markets. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Compliance, and Operations teams to build scalable risk controls, detection logic, and infrastructure for real-time selling environments. The role requires expertise in marketplace risk, trust and safety, fraud prevention, and payments risk. You will utilize analytical capabilities to interpret performance data and translate policy requirements into automated controls while managing the unique risks inherent in live commerce transactions.

What you'll do

  • Own and scale the end-to-end seller risk framework specifically for the eBay Live platform.
  • Manage seller risk losses by setting targets, tracking performance, and making proactive policy adjustments.
  • Partner with Finance and Data Science to build and maintain loss forecasting models for business planning.
  • Define and implement graduated enforcement mechanisms and privilege tiers based on seller performance.
  • Customize detection logic to address specific risk vectors unique to real-time live commerce environments.
  • Drive investment in foundational risk infrastructure, including decisioning tools, data pipelines, and operational workflows.
  • Translate complex policy requirements into scalable automated controls by collaborating with Product and Engineering teams.
  • Manage a team of high-performing professionals while coaching and developing talent within the risk organization.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience in marketplace risk, trust and safety, fraud prevention, payments risk, or related risk disciplines.
  • 5+ years of people leadership experience managing high-performing teams and coaching talent.
  • Proven track record of designing and scaling lifecycle risk, hold graduation, or account-level privilege tiering frameworks from scratch.
  • Experience collaborating with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Risk Operations to convert policy into automated controls.
  • Strong analytical capability using performance data and empirical evidence to support executive-level recommendations.
  • Experience owning a loss budget or financial risk target while communicating trade-offs at an executive level.
  • Excellent communication skills to simplify complex risk topics and drive alignment across multi-functional groups.

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