Senior Manager, Risk

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Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.

About The Team And The Role

The Global Payments Fraud Strategy function at eBay works to ensure phenomenal experiences when buyers and sellers come together and engage in commerce on the biggest marketplace in the world. This involves accurately understanding Payments & Risks on platform. Identifying the opportunity areas and helping build scalable solutions to drive outstanding user experience.

Analytics is critical for data driven Risk function. Core analytics capabilities include the ability to instrument critical metrics, identify the landscape of the entire function, figure out opportunities for improvement, work with product and payment providers to craft scalable solutions, and monitor their performance. We build this behavioral intelligence by exploring creative interpretations of existing and new sources of data, using advanced analytical techniques, and overlaying the appropriate strategies to deliver outstanding results!

As eBay expands into eBay Live and Focused Verticals, the Global Payments Fraud Strategy team plays a pivotal role in ensuring safe, seamless, and trusted transactions across these high-engagement, category-driven experiences. By leveraging advanced analytics and real-time risk detection, we enable secure growth in emerging commerce formats like live shopping and specialized verticals, ensuring buyers and sellers can confidently connect in dynamic, community-driven environments.

We are multi-disciplinary with a broad spectrum of industry experiences and deep analytical and quantitative expertise. We are currently seeking a high energy, driven, collaborative team member that brings extensive problem-solving skills to further the goal of applying cutting-edge risk analytics, insights and visualization to drive the risk management roadmap.

The role is data and analytically intensive. Successful candidates should be quick learners, strategic problem solvers, operational and execution driven facilitators, problem solvers, and have an entrepreneurial spirit. This role is heavily cross-functional and ideal for candidates who enjoy both defining and solving complex problems, while getting deeply involved in the classification domain and product partners. Skills in problem definition, rigorous analysis, and recommendation development will also be essential as well as demonstration of exceptional interpersonal skills, initiative and integrity.

What You Will Accomplish

• Develop significant insights that improve risk controls based on large incidents, near misses, product and portfolio analysis.
• Contribute to risk strategy development for emerging payment methods and new financial products.
• Help develop and implement risk policy frameworks to manage fraud and credit risk, products and portfolio threats.
• Monitor the performance of risk strategies and proactively seek out opportunities for improvement in policy, operations and outputs.
• Partner with risk horizontal teams to deliver scalable global risk management policies through the buyer lifecycle.
• Establish relationships with partners in the regional businesses, product owners, engineering, incident management and risk operations organizations to set shared goals, influence the prioritization and facilitate the implementation of important risk strategies.

• Minimum of 5 years of Risk experience - required.
• Minimum of 7 years of SQL, hands on/professional experience - required.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills, SQL, are crucial.…