Our Data Science Product teams drive the development of the world-class Data Science / Machine Learning capabilities that power Wayfair’s transformation of retail for home. Wayfair is an enterprise obsessed with data, where Data Science / Machine Learning plays an ever-increasing role in how we serve our customers.

This role will directly enable the growth of Catalog Data Science at Wayfair. The Catalog Data Science team’s objective is to improve both the end customer experience and Wayfair’s internal operations via a Data Science driven understanding of our catalog of millions of products, that is more scalable, automated and robust than traditional methods. This could include extracting a product’s attributes from imagery and text to improve our merchandising, graphing the similarity between products to help customers find substitutes, or predicting a new product’s long-term sales potential to ensure investments are informed by returns from future sales. 

Data Science Product is a highly collaborative and outcome-focused team that works with cross-functional executive leaders, as well as a high performing team of engineers, data scientists and analysts to establish and deliver the vision, strategy and roadmap for our products. We are curious and motivated to improve and innovate. We are a supportive team that values learning, psychological safety and intentional career development. 

What You’ll Do:

• Establish vision, strategy, and product roadmap for the Catalog Data Science - Product Platform team. You will own your roadmap, measure performance, keep your pulse on the customer, anticipate bottlenecks, make tradeoffs, and take acceptable risks to maximize the benefit for our customer and business
• Build and lead a cross-functional team of data scientists, ML engineers, analysts, and other internal partners to envision, build, and deliver measures of product by leveraging techniques including computer vision, natural language processing, and machine learning
• Lead your teams to deliver business impact by launching and iteratively optimizing data science products and services via integrations across the business, including marketing, search, pricing, and catalog assortment functions
• Improve your data science products and user experience in ways that lead to measurable gains through metrics that you will broadly define
• Drive the development of machine learning-centric products that generalize and scale across the full scope of our catalog. Your domain will include platform development, developing new products or product features, and integrating cutting-edge product capabilities across the full breadth of Wayfair’s catalog 

What You’ll Need:

• Demonstrated success in working with a cross-functional team including data scientists, ML engineers, and analysts to build data science products through the entire machine learning lifecycle
• Experienced in taking highly complex or ambiguous business problems, successfully lead strategic vision setting, and identify and prioritize near-term actions
• Superior communication skills with demonstrated ability to navigate a complex organization and generate buy-in for ideas and plans
• Excellent analytical skills with demonstrated experience in hypothesis-driven learning and turning data into actionable insights
• Track record of successfully leading and growing teams that are highly effective both in terms of business impact and team culture
• Ability to balance the development of new product capabilities with scaling integrations across a wide range of internal Wayfair stakeholder teams
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience