Our People
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Alexey
Sr. Advertising Analyst
Alexey enjoys solving logical puzzles and finding new ways for embracing challenging analytical questions. An Advertising Analyst position provides plenty of opportunities for applying his brain power for variety of neat
e-commerce problems. His favorite perk? Annual soccer championate where the U.S.-based team stands up against the International-based team.
Flora
Sr. Software Engineer
Surrounded by a team of rock-star search engineers, Flora is an Information Retrieval expert who is continuously improving the scalability and relevance of our product search engine. The secret to her success? Chocolate! It keeps her brain running on overdrive and fuels her supernatural engineering powers.
Beth
Merchant Sales and Marketing Manager
Beth loves that her position allows her to be creative and innovative on a daily basis. With many aspects to her role, she is always excited about the next opportunity and challenge. Her favorite perk? Regular lunchtime boot camp classes give her the right work/life balance to keep her motivated each and every day.
Dale
Research Scientist
Dale finds patterns in large amounts of data and works with product and engineering teams to implement data-centric solutions. He enjoys the opportunity to learn, apply cutting-edge techniques at petabyte scale and work with smart people in a collaborative environment. How he recharges during breaks? A game of competitive foosball or de-stressing with yoga.
Satish Katiyar
GM, eBay Audience Platform
As CTO, Satish is responsible for technology strategy, development, deployment and management at eBay Advertising. He brings more than 21 years of experience developing core technologies in online advertising, search engines and database servers.
Satish started his career in 1991 in the software division of an Indian engineering conglomerate in various roles including systems software development. He entered the online advertising space in 2005 as the first employee at Turn Inc., where he was responsible for research and development of industry-leading, fully automated ad targeting system and technologies. Prior to Turn, he worked on Yahoo, Inktomi, FAST and Alta Vista Web search engines. He also worked for IBM (Informix division), where he developed and managed the enterprise text search and content management products to extend SQL language and the database server. In 2009, Satish founded a startup focused on building a neighborhood social networking product. He joined eBay in Nov 2012 after spending three years at Cox Digital Solutions.
Satish holds a B. Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from HBTI Kanpur, India.
Bridget Davies
GM, eBay Commerce Network
As Senior Director of Global Business (ECN), Bridget Davies leads all business operations in the U.S., DE, FR, UK and AU markets. The operations under her leadership include Merchant Services, Display Advertising, Internet Marketing and our Distributed Commerce Publisher Network. She also shares responsibility for our global-owned and operated properties, DealTime, Epinions and Shopping.com.
An e-commerce and Internet marketing veteran, Bridget joined DealTime in 2000, managing and later leading the Strategic Publishers team. She grew the division into a multi-million dollar business while expanding a merchant's product reach everywhere consumers were shopping online. She took ownership of a new business and ran the Search Engine Marketing program where she doubled the business in three short years. She expanded her responsibilities in 2009, heading up the Global Internet Marketing and Advertising teams and leading the U.S. Merchant Services organization. With a strong track record of consistent results, Bridget took over management of the U.S. Business in July of 2010 and the Global Business in January 2012.
Bridget holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Yael Avital
Head of HR
As Head of HR, Yael provides strategic consultative services on human capital needs to enable delivery. At her previous role as HRBP, she worked with the Catalog & Classification Marketplaces team in Israel, where she played a key role in leadership development for the organization with an emphasis on manager effectiveness and ways of working.
Before joining eBay in 2008, Yael was Division HR Manager at NICE Systems, the leading provider of Insight from Interactions solutions. Yael holds a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in HR from Tel Aviv University and a Graduate degree in Business Administration from Ben Gurion University.
Stephen Howard-Sarin
GM, Display Advertising
Stephen runs sales, strategy and ad operations for eBay in the U.S. His teams match marketer needs to the data and platform capabilities at eBay Inc., Shopping.com, DealTime.com and Epinions.com, and audience buying across the Web via eBay's Commerce Trading Desk.
Stephen's background in digital media extends back 20 years to before the first banner ad. At CBS Interactive, he managed a portfolio of global digital brands and revenue streams. Prior to that, he was VP of Product at CNET Networks and Ziff-Davis' ZDNet. He joined eBay in 2011 to lead the still-new business unit for on-site advertising, and in 2013 gained go-to-market responsibility for off-site advertising as well. He's a graduate of U.C. Berkeley.
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For technologists and business minds alike, eBay opens up opportunities to shape the future of commerce. Do you love working with incredibly rich data? Do you dream of advertising that connects the right product to the right buyer at the right time? Located in Brisbane and San Jose, we're looking for great, independent thinkers who aren't afraid to take a few risks, break a few boundaries and change the world in the process.
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