About the Team:

The Scribe team operates a data platform that enables teams to create new events and publish them from virtually any application.  Scribe data powers real-time applications such as notifications, personalization, and core top-of-funnel systems like bidding and retargeting.  Scribe events are also stored in Wayfair’s data lake to power analytics, machine learning, and a variety of other batch use cases.  In addition, the team operates Scribe Foundation, a customizable dataset generator that provides a standardized means for cleansing, combining, aggregating, and republishing event data.

About the Role:

The need for more high-quality data across Wayfair continues to grow rapidly, and the Scribe platform is positioned to fill this critical demand.  Define the vision for this central nervous system of data, working with Product and Engineering leaders across numerous domains to identify gaps and opportunities.  Coach a team of product managers and work closely with Engineering partners to implement robust prioritization, planning, and communication processes across multiple sprint teams.  

What You’ll Do:

As a product manager for the Scribe team, your job is to deeply understand how data moves around Wayfair, and distill that understanding into concepts and strategies that form the bedrock of Scribe’s long-term product vision. Work with Engineering to pressure-test, prioritize, and execute against the platform roadmap.

As a data leader within the broader organization, your job is to drive continuously increasing data quality and availability across Wayfair. Gain a deep understanding of stakeholder objectives, success stories, and pain points and help guide them toward strategies that leverage Scribe and encourage best practices for data publication and management. Be an evangelist for “data as a product” thinking.

Responsibilities:

• Define and communicate short-term and long-term roadmaps for the Scribe platform.
• Lead a team of product managers and multiple sprint teams in the execution against the Scribe platform roadmap.
• Identify high-value opportunities across Wayfair that can benefit from leveraging Scribe, and work with partner teams to enable and prioritize solutions.
• Proactively engage stakeholders across the organization to identify opportunities to improve data quality and availability.
• Proactively engage stakeholders to continue to Scribe’s position within the broader ecosystem of data platforms and tools at Wayfair.
• Manage communications across a broad and diverse set of platform stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years Product Management experience, with a focus on data platforms
• Ability to develop and structure clear product hypotheses within a large and ambiguous problem space.
• A nuanced understanding of what makes data “good” or “bad” for a variety of use cases and stakeholders.
• Familiarity with big data technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Spark, and various data storage technologies.
• Proven analytical / quantitative analysis skills, especially when working with big data.
• Strong written and verbal communication and a demonstrated ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Consistent attention to detail that makes your product stand out to users.
• Positive, people-oriented and energetic.