Marco Salazar

About Marco Salazar

Most companies treat payments as plumbing. I\'ve spent 15 years proving it\'s something else entirely.Payments is an anchor product — the entry point to identity, financial services, and personalized ecosystems that compound in value over time. When it\'s designed well, it retains liquidity, deepens engagement, and creates the data foundation every adjacent financial service builds on. When it\'s treated as a cost center, that opportunity disappears.At eBay, I owned a ~$100M embedded services strategy from a blank page — building multi-year roadmaps and revenue models for regulated financial services initiatives, leading global payout infrastructure evaluations focused on licensing depth, settlement economics, and treasury yield preservation, and driving a 144% revenue increase in instant payouts by restructuring the economics and optimizing for adoption. At Discover, I led the evaluation of a biometric payment rail designed to become a scalable API platform extensible to any identity provider. When the infrastructure failed PII standards, I recommended killing it. Leadership aligned. Infrastructure trust has to precede ecosystem expansion.Regulation isn\'t a constraint I work around. It\'s a variable I design for.I\'m looking for a platform ownership role in embedded finance or payments — wallet, payouts, or merchant financial services — with direct revenue accountability. If that\'s a conversation worth having, I\'d like to have it.

Experience

1. Ebay Product Manager Global Seller Payments

   eBay

   Feb 2025 — Present

   Assumed ownership of eBay\'s tax transparency infrastructure — 1099-K, DAC7, DSR, and China — and drove end-to-end delivery, coordinating 12 engineers across Payments, Identity, and Tax platforms to hit every regulatory deadline across multiple jurisdictions simultaneously.Architected a ~$100M monetization strategy for eBay\'s payments ecosystem spanning regulated financial instruments, treasury yield optimization, licensing pathways, and embedded financial services — positioning the payments platform as a durable, standalone revenue layer.Shaped global payout rail strategy across the U.S, UK, EU, and China — identified multi-million dollar annual cost reduction through vendor diversification and infrastructure consolidation.

Education

• Princeton University

  Bachelor's, Electrical Engineer

• DePaul Driehaus College of Business

  MBA, Market Research, Product Development

Skills

• Market Research
• Apparel
• Marketing Research
• Conjoint Analysis
• Secondary Research
• Strategy
• Segmentation
• Electrical Engineering
• Microsoft Excel
• Consumer Electronics
• Analytics
• Business Strategy
• Perceptual Mapping
• Project Management
• Market Analysis
• Microsoft Office
• Management
• Competitive Intelligence
• Marketing Strategy
• Data Analysis
• Customer Insight
• Home Appliances
• Consumer Insight Generation
• Strategic Planning
• Competitive Analysis
• Market Intelligence
• Financial Services
• Import/Export Operations
• Product Development
• Analysis
• Primary Research
• Business Intelligence
• Qualitative Research
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Management Consulting