Manager, Data Science
US$170,500 / yr base salary
Posted 18 Sep 2026
Advertised as “Senior Manager eBay Live Data Science”
BranchFactor Summary
The original posting with the fluff stripped out
- Expected experience
- 7+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- Hybrid
- Visa sponsorship
- Not offered
| Base salary | US$170,500 / yr |
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Field of studyComputer Science, Economics, Quantitative Field, Statistics
Study levelMaster's
At eBay, we're more than a global ecommerce leader — we’re changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We’re committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts.
Our customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work — every day. We're in this together, sustaining the future of our customers, our company, and our planet.
Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.
About eBay Live
eBay Live is eBay’s interactive live shopping platform where sellers and creators broadcast in real time and buyers participate through chat, bidding, and instant purchases. It combines entertainment, community, and commerce into an engaging, trust‑based approach to discover and shop. Join us to develop the analytics and AI foundation that drives discovery, engagement, and quality moderation throughout Live. It’s a highly visible, priority growth project with substantial potential—a chance to create measurable impact at marketplace scale.
Opportunity
In your role as a Staff Data Scientist, you will combine advanced analysis skills with initial leadership responsibilities. You will manage complete analytical projects, prioritize unclear problems, choose suitable methods, maintain quality, and share insights that drive decisions. Additionally, you will define protocols for analysis, evaluate outputs from the team, and develop solutions (including data pipelines and tracking schemas) alongside engineering to expand product-impact analytics for eBay Live.
Specifically, you will contribute to developing the Data Science engine that drives eBay Live’s rapid growth across Seller Product & Seller Success, Buyer Product, Categories/Markets expansion, Trust & Safety, Data Foundation, and Business Performance—providing measurable results through causal measurement, experimentation, marketplace and risk modeling, and production‑quality insights/dashboards.
What You’ll Do
You will focus on one of the following pillars, while mentoring and improving analysis quality:
- Own end-to-end analyses for live commerce features. Define product metrics and tracking. Lead experiments that inform the roadmap and growth. Review peers’ work to uphold rigor.
- Seller Product & Seller Success: Build and govern growth experiments; analyze onboarding, listing quality, conversion, and retention; propose interventions and measurement plans; enforce review standards and reproducibility.
- Model category–market dynamics and size opportunities. Build selection and expansion frameworks. Advise sequencing and launch decisions. Architect lightweight data assets, such as derived tables, to unblock analyses.