Senior Manager, eBay Live Seller Risk

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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This role $205k
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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.

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TL;DR · Senior Manager, eBay Live Seller Risk

As a Senior Manager, eBay Live Seller Risk, you will join the Risk team to own and scale the end-to-end seller risk framework for the high-growth eBay Live business unit. You will be responsible for defining how live sellers are evaluated, onboarded, monitored, and graduated across global markets while balancing growth with protection against fraud, financial loss, and compliance gaps. Your daily work involves managing loss budgets, building forecasting models with Data Science, and collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Operations to develop scalable risk controls. You will design detection logic for real-time selling environments, implement progressive privilege tiers, and drive investments in decisioning infrastructure and data pipelines. The role requires expertise in marketplace risk, trust and safety, fraud prevention, and payments risk to mitigate threats unique to live commerce and real-time 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 policy requirements into scalable automated controls by collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Data Science teams.
  • Manage a team of professionals while coaching and developing talent to deliver results across the 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.
  • Outstanding 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.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills to simplify complex topics for multi-functional groups.
  • Experience with high-risk categories, instant-payout platforms, peer-to-peer marketplaces, or live-stream commerce (preferred).

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