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Director of Product, SEO & AEO

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Toronto, ON, CAN
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The Director of Product, SEO & AEO will drive SEO strategy, oversee technical initiatives, optimize for AI-driven platforms, and lead a team to enhance user acquisition and visibility.
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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 the team and role: 

eBay operates one of the most sophisticated SEO programs in the world, powered by unmatched inventory breadth and structured marketplace data. We believe there is substantial opportunity to further accelerate top-of-funnel user acquisition by expanding into new opportunity spaces, deepening technical excellence, and building a forward-looking AI-native search strategy. This is a high-impact Director of Product Management role at the intersection of technical SEO, AI-driven discovery, product strategy, and cross-functional execution.

What you will accomplish: 

  • You will develop and implement a forward-looking SEO strategy to meaningfully grow top-of-funnel user acquisition

  • Identify unexplored keyword, content, and indexation opportunities across eBay’s massive supply base

  • Lead technical SEO initiatives spanning site architecture, internal linking, crawl efficiency, schema markup, index health & more

  • Define eBay’s role in AI-driven answer ecosystems by building and leading eBay’s AEO Strategy

  • Develop frameworks for optimizing structured data, content signals, and entity authority for LLM discoverability

  • Ensure strong presence within:

    • Google AI Overview

    • ChatGPT

    • Gemini

    • Emerging AI search and answer platforms

  • Build strategies for featured snippets, conversational answers, and generative summaries

  • Establish measurement systems to track visibility and traffic impact from AI answer engines

  • Partner with brand, content, and structured data teams to strengthen eBay’s entity authority and knowledge graph presence

  • Build and mentor a high-performing team of global SEO product managers, data scientists and analysts  

What You Will Bring:

  • 10+ years of experience in SEO, organic growth, or search strategy, 4+ years leading large-scale SEO programs at enterprise or marketplace companies

  • Deep expertise in technical SEO at scale (large site architecture, programmatic SEO, structured data, crawl optimization)

  • Experience optimizing for:

    • Featured snippets

    • Voice search

    • Conversational interfaces

    • AI answer surfaces

  • Strong analytical proficiency with tools such as Google Search Console, Conductor, Ahrefs, SEMrush, and emerging AI visibility tools

Additional Details

This job posting relates to an existing vacancy within eBay.

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, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at [email protected]. We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible. View our accessibility statement to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility.


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Top Skills

Ahrefs
AI
Conductor
Google Search Console
Semrush
Seo

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