With an esti­mat­ed 2012 sales of $8 bil­lion and 90 mil­lion down­loads of Ebay’s mobile app,  Mobile retail­ing is one of the fastest grow­ing busi­ness­es for Ebay.

On the decline for years Ebay’s most promis­ing seg­ments are Pay­Pal pay­ments and mobile retail­ing. 

The con­ven­tion­al wis­dom in terms of Inter­net com­pa­nies is that once decline sets in in terms of earn­ings. Ebay seems to be the excep­tion to that rule. Ebay shares hit a peak of $54 in 2004, but by ear­ly 2009 its stock was at slight­ly over $10. Now it’s stock is back trad­ing at more than $40 a share in 2012.  The major­i­ty of growth this year came from mobile retail­ing and Pay­Pal pay­ments.  A sig­nif­i­cant change in senior lead­er­ship also helped the com­pa­ny grow.

The company’s web­site is an online per­son-to-per­son trad­ing com­mu­ni­ty online. The com­pa­ny has come a long way since its found­ing and com­petes with com­pa­nies such as Ama­zon. Ebay has a bright future and recent­ly unveiled a new eCom­merce plat­form called X.commerce, at the Ebay’s devel­op­er con­fer­ence.  More than 4,000 devel­op­ers were at the event, show­ing that devel­op­ers are eager to work for this boom­ing company.

Ebay has recent­ly devel­oped some new part­ner­ships with com­pa­nies such as Omni­ture, Adobe’s mar­ket­ing and adver­tis­ing unit and the direc­tor of plat­form and mobile mar­ket­ing at Face­book. Ebay is also high­ly suc­cess­ful because of the pay­ment plat­form that they devel­oped called PayPal.

One of the com­pa­nies goals for the future is to part­ner with brick-and-mor­tar retail­ers to increase sales or by entic­ing cus­tomers to vis­it their stores more often. These are referred to as Ebay drop off stores, which has Ebay employ­ees that will help you, sell your goods online if cus­tomers do not want to sell their goods themselves.

Ebay has just start­ed to move into the mobile space, accord­ing to Ebay’s VP of mobile Steve Yankovich. The goal is to deliv­er an excel­lent mobile expe­ri­ence regard­less of which mobile device or plat­form is being used. More than 65 mil­lion down­loads across have been down­load through their plat­form. . If you are inter­est­ed in dig­i­tal media jobs, then you should strong­ly con­sid­er apply­ing to work for eBay.

Media mar­ket­ing jobs are also avail­able with eBay. If you are inter­est­ed in this type of job, then you should know that the com­pa­ny is extreme­ly suc­cess­ful with gross mer­chan­dise sale for 2012 sur­pass­ing $8 bil­lion. The com­pa­ny also owns Pay­Pal and is expect­ed to top $7 bil­lion in pay­ments for 2012.

The type of tal­ent that eBay is like­ly look­ing to hire includes soft­ware engi­neers and pos­si­bly oth­er tech­nol­o­gy relat­ed posi­tions. There are oth­er areas that you might find of inter­est at Ebay such as infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy, finance, cus­tomer sup­port, human resources and mar­ket­ing. One unique are of inter­est is the Ebay Research Labs, which involves a team of area experts and researchers. Some of the indi­vid­u­als that Ebay Research Labs are look­ing for include com­put­er sci­en­tists, engi­neers, math­e­mati­cians, sta­tis­ti­cians, econ­o­mists and lin­guists. This usu­al­ly requires a Ph.D. and strong lead­er­ship and cre­ative skills are high­ly desirable.

Ebay is a much larg­er com­pa­ny than most peo­ple think. It has more than 15,000 employ­ees, which is cer­tain­ly quite dif­fer­ent than work­ing for a small tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny where you might know every employ­ee in the com­pa­ny. You might be inter­est­ed to know that Tech Crunch list­ed Ebay as one of the top 50 com­pa­nies to work at which is why you should con­sid­er apply­ing today.