eBay’s Inaugural DE&I Conference: The Be for Everyone Experience
Nearly 1400 employees joined for two days of speaker sessions and interactive experiences to celebrate the power of diversity, equity and inclusion.
eBay brings together millions of buyers and sellers to connect people and to build communities. Building an inclusive marketplace that serves the diversity on our platform requires a team that can understand and reflect the needs of these individuals. Learn more about how we’ve evolved our DE&I strategy to become more outcomes driven, to deliver meaningful and sustainable change, and to better support the communities we serve.
eBay is more than just an ecommerce platform — our marketplace uniquely exemplifies diversity. We welcome those of different geographies, backgrounds, lived experiences and passions. Hear more from a few of our leaders on what DE&I means to them and why it is so important to our business.
We owe it to ourselves and most importantly to our community to be clear about the outcomes we're driving toward when we talk about diversity, equity and inclusion at eBay. Our four strategic objectives, outlined below, are in service of our commitment to being a richly diverse, truly equitable and fearlessly inclusive place to work, grow, buy and sell.
We are focused on increasing representation across all minority groups at every level of the organization.
"Diversity is a must for us, not a nice to have. We’re integrating inclusivity in everything we do … And this is just the beginning; we have much more work to do."
-Sachi Dawkins, Director of Executive Recruiting
We are fostering an environment of inclusion and are applying an equity focused lens to all of our people processes.
"Creating a network that empowers each other to grow — and that recognizes shared challenges — can be a really powerful element when building a sense of belonging."
-Daniela Martinez, a People Development Partner at eBay
We are applying DE&I tenets as we engage our community of buyers and sellers, business partners as well as the broader communities that we serve.
"The eBay Foundation is honored to work alongside community partners who are working to create impactful solutions for equity and inclusion. They are making a real difference, and supporting this work is at the heart of what we do."
-Allie Ottoboni, President of the eBay Foundation
We are addressing biases that may exist in the AI that powers our platform and designing experiences that include diverse communities.
"We’re reimagining how we empower our customers through advanced technologies, designing experiences to be more broadly inclusive."
-Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov, Chief AI Officer
Our COIs welcome, connect and support eBay employees from all over the world. COIs are employee-led groups and are the cornerstone of building an inclusive culture and fostering a sense of belonging at eBay. Our COIs bring together those of different ages, disability statuses, races/ethnicities, gender identities and expressions, military status, and sexual orientation, and we continue to form new communities along the way.
President & CEO
Global Head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
eBay Seller, Beauty On Point
Trading Director, Home & Garden
SVP, Chief Financial Officer
SVP, Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel and Secretary
People Development Partner at eBay
SVP, Chief Business and Strategy Officer
SVP, Chief People Officer
eBay Seller, BikeNow Motorsports
SVP & General Manager, North America
Our archived reports: 2020 DE&I Report | 2020 EEO-1 Report | 2019 D&I Report | 2019 EEO-1 Report
2022 Ireland GPG Report | 2021 UK GPG Report | 2021 ESG Independent Assurance Statements