Who we are:
We’re the Experience Design team at Wayfair, and we’re tackling exciting challenges that are reshaping how suppliers sell and people discover, find, purchase and have goods delivered to their homes. We’re a diverse, multidisciplinary team of world-class designers who are hard at work transforming the online shopping experience. Our design practice is collaborative, data-driven, and fast-paced.
The team you’ll work with:
Our Supplier team is dedicated to the design, delivery and continuous optimization of a world-class enterprise application - Partner Home - for our Suppliers to manage their business with Wayfair.
We’re looking for a strong and experienced design leader with a background in enterprise design, agile product environments and systems thinking to help us deliver exceptional Supplier outcomes through our Partner Home application.
What you’ll do:
- Champion the end-to-end Supplier experience across all applications, features and tools Wayfair Suppliers use in managing their business with Wayfair
- Partner closely with Supplier Product and Engineering leadership to define the product vision for our Supplier platform, contribute to product roadmaps and operational planning
- Partner with other Supplier design leads across multiple workgroups, coordinating efforts to achieve unified solutions for all touchpoints across the Supplier’s journey
- Oversee multiple atomic teams, drive strong cross-functional collaboration and support teams with rituals and practices focused on optimal Supplier outcomes
- Guide the work of a multi-disciplinary experience design team comprised of product designers, user researchers, and content strategists in the creation of elegant solutions to complex problems through optimal user flows, wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes to communicate and validate designs and outcomes
- Drive enterprise pattern definition and usage across the Supplier experience
- Drive alignment through purpose, inspire designers, user researchers, content strategists, product managers, and engineers to deliver the best work of their careers
- Partner with the Global Head of Experience Design to drive awareness, growth and maturity of the Experience Design function
What you’ll need:
- 12+ years of experience as a user experience designer or interaction designer, or similar role
- 7+ years of experience managing a collaborative design team in an agile product environment
- 5+ years of experience managing managers and associate directors
- A portfolio of work demonstrating experience creating human-centered design solutions and showing your ability to turn ideas into a strong and unique creative vision
- Experience leading design for a variety of form factors including: mobile, tablet, and desktop interfaces
- Experience leading and delivery full life cycle design projects, from design strategy through execution
- Fluency in best practices for enterprise information architecture and design, usability principles, and designing accessible and inclusive applications
- Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills with proven track record of presenting to and influencing senior management
- Proven ability to work across teams and synthesize end-user feedback and input from business leaders, product management, and engineering teams
About Wayfair Inc.
Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston or Berlin, or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world, we’re reinventing the way people shop for their homes. Through our commitment to industry-leading technology and creative problem-solving, we are confident that Wayfair will be home to the most rewarding work of your career. If you’re looking for rapid growth, constant learning, and dynamic challenges, then you’ll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.
No matter who you are, Wayfair is a place you can call home. We’re a community of innovators, risk-takers, and trailblazers who celebrate our differences, and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger, smarter, and well-positioned for success. We value and rely on the collective voices of our employees, customers, community, and suppliers to help guide us as we build a better Wayfair – and world – for all. Every voice, every perspective matters. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or genetic information.