eBay Classifieds Lifestyle

Our Team

eBay Classifieds are easy, simple and free classifieds sites in the U.S., Spain, Germany and Italy. Whether it is a couch, babysitter, car, apartment or plumber, eBay Classifieds connects you with people in your local area to find what you need.

Members of our Team

  • Vikas
  • Selina
  • Christina
  • Elena
  • Laura
  • Luis
  • Paolo
  • Tim
  • Martin
  • Davide
  • Roberto
  • Vikas
    GM, eBay Classifieds Italy
    A friend of mine, a developer at eBay Classifieds at the time, encouraged me to apply for the Program Manager position at eBay Classifieds. While I already had a good opinion of eBay Classifieds based on my conversations with him, I was very thrilled about the opportunity once I met the team. It was the right blend of challenge, responsibility, and excitement, and I decided in no time that I wanted to be part of this high-energy, vibrant team.
    During my first week, my manager casually remarked that things move at a very fast pace in classifieds, and he couldn't have been more correct. I cannot think of a single week that didn't present a new challenge. We are constantly trying to do more and be faster and better. The drive and commitment is apparent in every product release and every initiative we undertake. I really enjoy working with very bright people who are passionate about their work.
    An exciting initiative that I'm driving is the migration and setup of all our technology systems; from eBay data centers to new global classifieds data centers. This is a nine month long project with significant complexity and involves several different technology organizations dispersed globally. The challenge is to minimize costs and business disruptions, while making key technology, infrastructure, and setup improvements.
    I feel that I have a lot to learn about online classifieds, both technology and business. My immediate goals are to improve our program to best serve our businesses. I am constantly encouraged and supported to enhance the scope and quality of what we deliver as an organization through improvements in planning, communication, quality, predictability, among other factors. My personal goals are to learn and grow professionally as we strive for these organizational goals.
    My favorite benefit is the interactions with my local and extended teams. I've met very fascinating people, had interesting discussions and made some good friends.
    This is a hard question--I would probably say individually, I find the personal investment in employees I've seen to be very unique and worthwhile. While this has manifested itself in many ways, two of my favorites include a manager recommending, encouraging the reading of and discussing a management philosophy book focused on improving operational excellence; and the amount of caring I've seen managers demonstrate when it comes to motivating and fostering a team.
    As part of eBay, I expected the classifieds team to have a "large corporation" culture. eBay Classifieds feels a lot more like a startup than I expected, which supports the fast-paced, nimble business priorities.
    To constantly strive for solutions in challenging situations.
  • Selina
    Head of Travel & APAC Product, Local Classifieds
    eBay Classifieds offers a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
    The people are great to work with.
    Launching Kijiji in the U.S., working on joint ventures and new product ideas.
    To have fun in my job.
    Volleyball on Tuesdays.
    People’s willingness to help you even though you’ve never met them before.
    People at all levels are open to ideas and feedback.
    Sense of humor.
  • Christina
    Customer Service
    I thought it would be interesting to work in a new area, doing something completely different. Also, I enjoy working with computers and the team seemed like very nice people.
    I enjoy helping eBay Anuncios users to post their ads, and sometimes you find really funny and amazing ads.
    The greatest project has been creating eBay Anuncios.
    My goal is to help make eBay Anuncios and eBay Classifieds the best website for users.
    I really enjoy working with my colleagues from eBay Anuncios. They all are great people, very open minded and very funny too. Also, I like to practice English every once in a while and get to know more about different cultures (since there are people working at eBay Anuncios from different nationalities).
    Bringing eBay Anuncios live, or should I say the celebration afterwards (having dinner and going out together).
    The people I work with, my colleagues.
    Dynamic, young spirit and open minded.
  • Elena
    Customer Service
    eBay Anuncios decided it for me ☺ It is much better than all my previous jobs.
    Here you can be and do whatever you want. Our slogan says that eBay Anuncios "is a place of everybody and for everybody" and it’s true.
    I’m learning a lot, so all projects are interesting for me if it's new. eBay Anuncios, of course, is the most important and I like the feeling that I am a part of it.
    While I work here, my objective will be to keep on learning about the workings of a big company, as well as sharing knowledge with my co-workers who always take time to explain to me what I need to know.
    Learning. I’m lucky because I work with the best team I've ever known.
    Knowing that I have the full confidence of my managers in my daily work, and feeling valued by this company at a personal and professional level.
    The freedom of raising opinions on projects and the ease with which a good idea can be implemented without undergoing all the traditional intermediaries. At eBay Anuncios, it doesn't matter if you are at a high position, since we implement all good ideas no matter where or who they come from.
    I believe that we can all say that we love what we are doing and we are enjoying our work, which is not something that everyone can say.
  • Laura
    Community Relations Manager
    I wanted a career change and eBay Anuncios offered the best option I could wish for: to work in a friendly, open-minded and hip atmosphere and learn how an Internet company really worked.
    Because it’s fun! The community is fun, the team is fun and the projects are great. Having fun while you learn and work; that’s the best!
    One cool project was a "laughter therapy" event in Central Madrid. 150 users got together (with clown noses, t-shirts and balloons) and were given a class (by professional ‘laughter therapy’ teachers) to learn how to face the current economic crisis. It was a blast!
    Keep learning and keep improving…
    Being able to work with a group of amazingly talented people and be able to share experiences and learn from everyone.
    Team meeting at 3:00 am on a Monday night when we were about to launch eBay Anuncios, eBay Coches and eBay Pisos. It was a totally “team-building” experience.
    The amount of work we actually accomplish, being such a small team!
    Knowledge share, hard working and… fun!
  • Luis
    Marketing Manager
    Because it’s a great team and interesting and challenging work.
    The team is very committed and fun; great team spirit. We got a great opportunity to set a big milestone on classifieds history in Spain.
    I joined the company very recently in February and so far launching eBay Anuncios in Spain has been a great experience.
    To make eBay Anuncios a successful and TOP site in our market.
    I enjoy every day that I work on this team.
    When I saw the new home page and the three portals, life to site, in such a short period of time.
    The great capacity of work on the team. Launching eBay Anuncios involved a huge amount of work that was completed in a very short period of time.
    Even though each component of the team has a different personality and came from different backgrounds, we share a common sense of team spirit.
  • Paolo
    Head of Product & Innovation
    Coming from my own web solutions company I wanted to work in a place that would have a small team so I could learn a lot from the different parts of the business (as I was used to). LoQUo was at that point at its beginnings as an entrepreneurial company, so I figured I was in the right moment to learn how to take a company through the tough process of becoming a more organized place. It has been a great journey so far.
    First of all, because the team I work with every day is great, and then because the whole Classifieds business unit is a great place where people, learning and (of course) targets are the highest priorities.
    Many, the most recent and also most exciting one, has been building eBay Anuncios, a new home grown platform for classifieds. This new platform was built from scratch in a little less than two months by my development team and myself... it was a lot of sleepless nights for the three of us, but in the end we were able to deliver a feature rich product with good stuff under the hood. One of the best projects of my whole career.
    Primarily, bring innovation to the platform and team, in many ways: improved UEX, new functionality, new PD processes, new architectures, etc.
    I get the best of both worlds: On the one side I get all the benefits of working on a small team where you have visibility to the whole business, and on the other side, you get the benefits of working for a big company where you have a lot of things to leverage and share.
    Many, but actually the most amazing one was asking the community to help save a life and see how they reacted immediately to make a person's life a lot better. That day I realized what a community truly means: It has nothing to do with having a discussion board or community flagging, but it's all about the people in it and how they interact. You just try to make their stay nice on your site.
    The team. It's a great group of people, totally focused and devoted to succeed at doing their job in the best way. This definitely exceeded my expectations of what a good working environment could be.
    The most common is just "Geek talk" (lol). We like to make jokes a lot.
  • Tim
    General Manager, eBay Kleinanzeigen
    Because of the challenge and the opportunity to build local classifieds in Germany.
    My team is great, my boss is great, we are working on exciting stuff – is that enough?
    Starting a new online classifieds product platform and experience for Germnay from scratch.
    I am aiming to make local classifieds as successful in Germany as in Canada or the UK.
    Receiving a salary :)
    Finding a garage for my Nihola Cigar (Danish family bike) two minutes from my home.
    How strong eBay Classifieds is in pets…just check it out!
    Strong ambition to win (and to have a good time doing so)!
  • Martin
    Marketing Manager
    Challenging and growing business model
    Fast, challenging, high learning curve, great and motivated team, high professionality
    Rebranding Kijiji to eBay Kleinanzeigen
    Build a brand, bring quality traffic, develop the business with new ideas
    International know-how knowledge transfer
    Seeing Kijiji and now eBay Kleinanzeigen turn into a well structured and highly professional company
    Feels like we are the gauls of the eBay world
    We love to discuss
  • Davide
    Product Developer
    I used to visit the Kijiji Italy site as a user and browsing even among the job offers, when I saw the job offer from Kijiji. From that moment I hoped to become part of this team and help in developing the site
    I’m working on the development part of a site that helps people in connecting each other and solve their needs. I know a lot of persons who use the site and I like working for all of them!
    I spent few months this summer in Madrid, where I worked with a very international team creating the new eBay Annunci on a new platform, leveraging experiences from multiple countries and I was the only Italian developer in the team. I was very impressed with this project and in the meantime I enjoyed the wonderful city that Madrid is.
    Win Italian market of classifieds with the new eBay Annunci site!
    The opportunity to travel, meet people from other country teams and exchange experiences
    The first trip I had in the US with my French colleague. We visited the eBay Headquarters office, met a lot of colleagues and had the time to do a lot of excursions around San Jose
    There are so many people, in so many different roles, who can teach me something
    We are all very nice and joyful people, with a never ending attitude for jokes ;-)
  • Roberto
    Business Development Manager
    I accepted the offer to launch in Italy the first classified website in Feb 2005, leaving my former experience as journalist. I loved the entrepreneurial spirit I felt and that was requested to me and the opportunity to create a new market with high potentiality
    I continue to feel as an entrepreneur even now in a structured team where everyone leads completely
    I loved the guerrilla marketing activities we did in Milan to launch Kijiji at the very beginning and the collective work done with an international team to launch the new Kijiji eBay Annunci site this year
    Our goal is to win the multi-commerce market in Italy, and this is my goal, too
    Having the chance to work in an environment where everyone’s actions can impact directly on the business
    The first international meeting in Amsterdam in July 2005 with a few pioneers from around the world
    A lot of talented people around the world and the pleasure to work together
    Smart people who love their work