Director of Product - Marketplace Policy

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Product ManagementProduct Director

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Key Responsibilities

Set the Marketplace Policy Strategy Define the long-term strategy and prioritized roadmap for Marketplace Policy across StubHub.

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Product ManagementProduct Director

StubHub is on a mission to redefine the live event experience on a global scale. Whether someone is looking to attend their first event or their hundredth, we’re here to delight them all the way from the moment they start looking for a ticket until they step through the gate. The same goes for our sellers. From fans selling a single ticket to the promoters of a worldwide stadium tour, we want StubHub to be the safest, most convenient way to offer a ticket to the millions of fans who browse our platform around the world.

About the Role

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Define the long-term strategy and prioritized roadmap for Marketplace Policy across StubHub.
Establish clear principles and decision frameworks for balancing buyer outcomes, seller outcomes, marketplace growth, risk, and P&L performance.
Define the metrics and success criteria used to evaluate marketplace policy decisions and system performance.
Build alignment among senior leaders around how StubHub should approach different categories of marketplace risk.
Identify opportunities for Marketplace Policy to become a source of competitive advantage rather than simply a mechanism for avoiding downside.
Develop a clear understanding of long-tail marketplace risks and ensure they are reflected in product and business strategy.

Own the system-level product architecture across listing risk, policy abuse, transaction risk, payment decisioning, seller fault, seller charges, and related policy systems.
Partner with Engineering and Data Science to develop high-quality machine learning and decisioning capabilities that improve the precision of marketplace interventions.
Design systems that continuously improve as new data, marketplace behavior, and outcomes become available.
Replace broad or manual controls with scalable systems capable of making differentiated decisions across events, sellers, buyers, transactions, and risk profiles.
Ensure policies and models work together as a coherent architecture rather than as independent point solutions.
Create clear mechanisms for measuring false positives, false negatives, customer consequences, and financial consequences across major decision systems.

Give executive leadership clear, responsive levers for increasing or decreasing risk exposure for particular events, time periods, customer segments, or marketplace conditions.
Build frameworks that make the financial and customer consequences of changing those controls explicit.
Develop early-warning mechanisms and monitoring for emerging marketplace risks.
Lead the policy response to unusually large, complex, or high-risk events and cohorts.
Ensure the business can respond quickly to changing conditions without defaulting to blunt controls that unnecessarily constrain supply or degrade customer experience.

Establish clear, explainable frameworks for determining responsibility when transactions do not go as planned.
Lead the evolution of seller fault attribution, buyer compensation, policy abuse detection, seller charges, and related marketplace rules.
Improve consistency in how similar cases are treated across products, geographies, and operational workflows.
Design policies and systems that make important marketplace decisions understandable to internal teams and, where appropriate, buyers and sellers.
Build configurable decision frameworks that can evolve without requiring major operational or technical intervention each time policy changes.

What We Offer

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✓Serve as the single-threaded leader for complex Marketplace Policy questions in which multiple senior stakeholders have legitimate but competing objectives.

✓Develop the evidence, analysis, and recommendation when a decision requires a material change in StubHub’s approach to marketplace risk.

✓Present decisions and recommendations clearly to senior and executive leadership.

✓Create clarity around decision rights, governance, escalation paths, and ownership across Product, Operations, Engineering, Data Science, Finance, Supply, Legal, Compliance, and Customer Experience.

✓Influence the company’s overall risk appetite by making the available tradeoffs, consequences, and control mechanisms explicit.

✓Maintain a strong and defensible point of view while remaining willing to update decisions as new evidence emerges.

✓Accelerated Growth Environment: An environment designed for swift skill and knowledge enhancement, where you have the autonomy to lead experiments and tests on a massive scale.

✓Top Tier Compensation Package: Competitive base, equity, and upside that tracks with your impact.

✓Flexible Time Off: Enjoy unlimited Flex Time Off, giving you the flexibility to manage your schedule and take time to recharge as needed.

✓Comprehensive Benefits Package: Prioritize your well-being with a comprehensive benefits package, featuring 401k, and premium Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance options.

Identify opportunities where better policy and decision systems can simultaneously improve buyer trust, seller participation, and marketplace economics.
Explore how stronger identity, behavioral understanding, risk modeling, and differentiated treatment of marketplace participants can unlock new capabilities.
Identify unique supply or marketplace dynamics where policy innovation can create strategic advantage.
Build a multi-year view of how increasingly sophisticated marketplace intelligence can create non-linear improvements in StubHub’s business.

Responsibilities

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→10+ years of experience across product management, marketplace strategy, risk, trust and safety, fintech, fraud, payments, operations technology, decision science, or another systems-intensive environment.
→Personally owned a high-stakes risk, policy, or decisioning system where false positives and false negatives created meaningful customer, commercial, and financial consequences.
→Demonstrated success designing or scaling decision systems that materially influence customer, marketplace, or platform behavior.
→Exceptional analytical and economic judgment, with the ability to reason rigorously about incentives, expected value, risk, and second-order effects.
→Strong product and systems thinking, with experience designing how models, rules, policies, workflows, and human judgment interact within a complex operating system.
→Deep fluency with data and quantitative decision-making; comfortable partnering closely with Data Science on predictive models, experimentation, measurement, and model performance.
→Experience making consequential decisions in ambiguous environments where sophisticated stakeholders have competing objectives.
→Proven ability to communicate contested recommendations to senior executives, build alignment, and hold a well-supported position under pressure.
→Strong commercial and financial judgment, including experience owning or materially influencing a P&L, loss line, risk portfolio, or comparable business outcome.
→Experience working across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Operations, Finance, Legal, Compliance, and commercial teams.
→Ability to move fluidly between long-term strategy and detailed work on an individual model, decision rule, policy, workflow, or experiment.