Category Lead — eBay Live Germany

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About the Role

We’re looking for a Category Lead to take end-to-end ownership of a portfolio of categories within eBay Live Germany. Reporting directly to the Head of eBay Live Germany, you will operate as the business owner for your portfolio — accountable for its commercial performance, strategy, team, operating rhythm, and cross-functional execution.

You will independently determine where to play, how to win, and what needs to change to accelerate growth, combining deep commercial acumen with rigorous performance management and strong people leadership. As Live Commerce continues to develop, you will be expected to explore, experiment, learn quickly, and adapt, building the playbook rather than simply executing against an established one.

What You Will Accomplish

• Own your category portfolio end-to-end: Take full accountability for strategy, GMV and commercial performance, seller and buyer health, programming, and execution — deeply understanding performance drivers and proactively taking action to accelerate growth or address gaps.

• Set strategy, experiment, and drive the business: Identify opportunities across supply, demand, inventory, programming, and buyer experience; turn insights into clear priorities and actively test, learn, iterate, and pivot as new data, customer behaviors, and market opportunities emerge.

• Build and grow a high-performing team: Set ambitious standards and clear accountability, delegate meaningful ownership, and invest deeply in coaching and development. Lead with radical candor, combining direct, timely feedback with a genuine commitment to helping people grow and succeed.

• Own performance management and reporting: Independently run the operating rhythm for your portfolio, from forecasting and KPI management to business reviews and leadership reporting, translating data into a clear point of view on what is happening, why, and what happens next.

• Lead commercially and negotiate for growth: Build senior relationships with strategic sellers and partners, structure and negotiate high-impact commercial agreements, and make sound investment and resource trade-offs based on business impact and ROI.

• Drive the cross-functional agenda: Act as the clear business owner across Seller Growth, Programming, Marketing, Product, Operations, and other partners — proactively building alignment, constructively challenging assumptions, resolving blockers, and influencing priorities and roadmaps to deliver outcomes.

Who You Will Bring

• 6–10 years of relevant experience with a strong track record of independently owning and growing a business, category, or commercial portfolio; experience in marketplaces, e-commerce, live/social commerce, strategy, or commercial leadership is highly relevant.

• A commercially sophisticated business leader and strong negotiator who understands growth drivers, economics and ROI, makes sound investment trade-offs, and takes ownership for delivering commercial outcomes.

• A proactive, curious builder who naturally looks around corners, seeks out new opportunities, and is energized by operating in a nascent space without an established playbook; comfortable forming hypotheses, testing them quickly, learning from failure, and changing course when the evidence demands it.

• A proven people leader committed to team growth, who sets high standards, creates genuine ownership, coaches actively, develops talent, and uses direct and constructive feedback to help individuals and the team perform at their best.

• Highly data-driven and operationally rigorous, able to independently forecast performance, diagnose drivers and blockers, own executive-ready reporting, and translate insights into decisive action.

• An exceptional cross-functional leader and influencer, able to build trusted senior relationships, navigate competing priorities, challenge constructively, and mobilize teams around outcomes; deeply interested in the rapidly evolving German live commerce landscape and fluent in German and English.

Additional Details

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