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Our customers are our compass. Authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work — every day. Together, we sustain the future of our customers, our company, and our planet.
Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers as we connect people and build communities that create economic opportunity for all.
About the Team and the Role
eBay’s Search, Browse and SEO organization sits at the core of the buyer experience. This team designs and builds the discovery systems that power how millions of customers find and explore products on eBay.
As a Staff Product Designer on the Search team, you will help shape the future of eBay’s end-to-end search experience. You will act as the design subject matter expert (SME) for search, partnering with product and engineering leaders to define the strategy, vision, and roadmap for multiple surfaces across the platform.
You’ll set a high bar for craft, bring a research-driven perspective, and drive alignment across teams while delivering measurable product outcomes.
What You Will Accomplish
• Create world-class, user-centered experiences that solve real customer needs while balancing business goals and technical constraints
• Lead product design for complex, end-to-end initiatives within agile, cross-functional teams
• Apply user-centered design methods to prototype and validate product ideas
• Act as a “co-founder” within product teams by identifying user problems and driving innovative solutions
• Ship meaningful product improvements that deliver measurable impact
• Bring multiple related projects together into a cohesive portfolio of customer experiences
• Collaborate with design systems teams, product managers, and engineers to maintain consistency and scalability
• Participate in user research, discovery work, and testing to validate solutions before launch
What You Will Bring
• 8+ years of professional product design experience
• Experience leading design across large, cross-functional product initiatives
• A strong portfolio demonstrating product strategy and UX craft across web and native consumer applications
• Deep understanding of design thinking and user-centered design methodologies
• Hands-on experience with concept development, including:
– Generative research
– Storyboarding
– User journey mapping
– Competitive analysis
– Prototyping
– Qualitative interviews and quantitative testing
• Ability to synthesize ambiguity and translate research, trends, business goals, and feedback into actionable design strategy
Bonus Experience
• Experience working on search platforms
• Background in ecommerce product design
Equal Opportunity
eBay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or other legally protected status.
Applicants requiring accommodations may contact talent@ebay.com during the hiring process.
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