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title: Structure
description: Eldorado’s organizational operating model, departments, teams and responsibilities.
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import ArchifyDiagram from '@site/src/components/ArchifyDiagram';

This operating model organizes Eldorado around six departments: **Product, Technology, Operations, Marketing, Finance & Accounting, and HR & Administration**. Leadership aligns their priorities around marketplace growth, customer trust and efficient delivery.

## Leadership

| Role | Leadership | Responsibility |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chief Executive Officer | Vladas Jurkevičius | Company direction, business performance, strategic priorities and executive alignment. |
| Chief Operating Officer | Lukas Deksnys | Marketplace operations, customer service, resolution quality and operational performance. |

Functional leaders translate company priorities into departmental plans. Team leads own execution, people development and service quality within their teams.

## Organization overview

<ArchifyDiagram name="organization-structure" title="Eldorado organization structure" />

**Management coordinates the six departments.** Each department has a clear business responsibility and a set of teams that deliver it.

## Departments and teams

Product has **two teams** and Technology has **five teams**. Operations, Marketing, Finance & Accounting, and HR & Administration each have **one squad** covering their departmental workstreams. Each team belongs to one department, with its own leadership and responsibilities. The departments collaborate on delivery without sharing team ownership.

### Product

**Purpose:** improve the buyer and seller experience and turn marketplace opportunities into valuable product capabilities.

| Team | Responsibilities |
| --- | --- |
| Product Management | Product strategy, roadmaps, priorities and outcome measurement across discovery, categories, orders, seller tools, payments and operational workflows. |
| Product Design | User research, interaction design, design consistency and accessible buyer and seller experiences. |

Product Management owns what to improve and why. Product Design shapes the experience. Both work with Technology teams while remaining within Product.

### Technology

**Purpose:** build and operate a secure, reliable marketplace and improve the effectiveness of engineering.

| Team | Responsibilities |
| --- | --- |
| Product Engineering | Build and maintain marketplace capabilities, including search, orders, seller tools, checkout, wallet and operational tooling. |
| Platform & IT | Platform services, delivery infrastructure, observability, reliability, performance, internal systems, employee devices and identity administration. |
| Architecture & Security | Technical standards, system design, security architecture and secure engineering practices. |
| Quality Engineering | Test strategy, automation, release quality and defect prevention. |
| Data & AI | Analytics, experimentation, ranking, recommendations, marketplace ML and safe AI-assisted engineering workflows. |

The CTO owns technology direction. The Head of Engineering leads engineering delivery through Group Engineering Managers and Engineering Managers. The AI Architect coordinates AI enablement within Data & AI, working with Architecture & Security and the other Technology teams. These are leadership roles within the five-team structure, not additional teams.

### Operations

**Purpose:** keep marketplace trading dependable and resolve customer issues fairly and efficiently.

**Operations Squad** delivers the department’s responsibilities across the following workstreams.

| Workstream | Responsibilities |
| --- | --- |
| Customer Support | Buyer and seller assistance, knowledge management, self-service and support workflow automation. |
| Trust & Resolution | Disputes, appeals, refunds, warranties, chargebacks and complex customer cases. |
| Risk & Fraud | Transaction and account risk, fraud prevention, investigations and operational controls. |
| Operational Quality | Independent case reviews, quality standards, calibration, service accuracy and improvement tracking across operational teams. |

The COO coordinates Operations. Team leads manage specialists and daily service delivery. Operational Quality reports directly to the COO and reviews quality across teams.

### Marketing

**Purpose:** attract and retain customers, build the Eldorado brand and grow marketplace demand.

**Marketing Squad** delivers the department’s responsibilities across the following workstreams.

| Workstream | Responsibilities |
| --- | --- |
| Brand & Community | Brand positioning, campaigns, organic social, community and brand partnerships. |
| Creative | Campaign concepts, visual assets and performance creative. |
| SEO | Organic discovery, search visibility and content performance. |
| PPC & Affiliate | Paid acquisition, affiliate channels and return on marketing investment. |
| Influencer | Creator relationships, influencer programs and campaign delivery. |
| CRM | Customer lifecycle communication, retention, reactivation and campaign personalization. |

The CMO coordinates Marketing. The Brand Team Lead owns Brand & Community, with shared support from Creative and the other marketing workstreams.

### Finance & Accounting

**Purpose:** maintain financial control, support business decisions and keep marketplace money flows dependable.

**Finance & Accounting Squad** delivers the department’s responsibilities across the following workstreams.

| Workstream | Responsibilities |
| --- | --- |
| Financial Planning & Analysis | Budgets, forecasts, profitability, management reporting and investment analysis. |
| Accounting, Tax & Controls | Accounting, financial reporting, tax, audit coordination and internal controls. |
| Treasury & Payment Operations | Cash management, reconciliation, payout oversight, payment-provider coordination and financial risk. |

The CFO coordinates Finance & Accounting and works with executive leadership on business performance. Finance, Operations and Product share responsibility for effective payment and withdrawal processes, each within its own area of expertise.

### HR & Administration

**Purpose:** help teams attract, develop and retain people and provide an effective working environment.

**People & Administration Squad** delivers the department’s responsibilities across the following workstreams.

| Workstream | Responsibilities |
| --- | --- |
| Talent Acquisition | Recruitment, candidate experience, hiring coordination and workforce demand support. |
| People Operations | Employee onboarding, development, performance processes, policies and employee experience. |
| Office & Administration | Workplace services, office operations and administrative coordination. |

HR partners with department leaders on team capacity and development. People Operations works with Platform & IT on employee onboarding, role changes and offboarding.

## Leadership and delivery structure

<ArchifyDiagram name="organization-reporting" title="Eldorado leadership and delivery structure" />

The diagram shows management responsibility from leader to role or team:

- **CTO → Head of Engineering → Group Engineering Managers → Engineering Managers → the Product Engineering team.**
- **CTO → AI Architect**, coordinating engineering AI enablement.
- **COO → Operational Quality**, providing independent quality oversight.
- **CMO → Brand Team Lead**, leading Brand & Community.

Product and Technology retain separate team ownership and reporting lines. Their teams coordinate priorities, design, engineering, quality and data work to deliver business outcomes.

## How the departments work together

| Business outcome | Collaboration |
| --- | --- |
| Better buyer experience | Product defines improvements; Technology delivers them; Operations brings customer feedback; Data & AI measures the result. |
| Stronger seller experience | Product and Technology develop seller tools; Operations supports sellers; Finance manages financial processes. |
| Safe and trustworthy trading | Risk & Fraud, Trust & Resolution, Architecture & Security, and Finance coordinate controls and incident responses. |
| Sustainable growth | Marketing develops demand; Product improves conversion and retention; Finance measures profitability. |
| AI-powered execution | Data & AI supports engineering and develops marketplace intelligence; Operations improves service and quality workflows. |

Department leaders remain accountable for outcomes, controls and service quality as AI becomes part of everyday work.