About the team:
Merchandising Technology (MerchTech) is responsible for the technology platform that prepares Wayfair’s massive catalog of SKUs for omni-channel delivery, including assortment planning, imagery and 3D/AR content creation, and storage/delivery of media assets. Brand & Channel Workflow systems are core to Wayfair’s business model, bringing our mostly tightly curated assortments to our customers and driving significant impact for the company.
What you’ll do:
As a Senior Product Manager you will own the product discovery, strategy and roadmap for Brand & Channel Workflows at Wayfair. The role is highly cross-functional requiring close interaction with users, software engineers, data scientists and experience designers. The candidate must have sufficient familiarity with modern product management techniques and a passion for solving high-impact operational and technical challenges.
Responsibilities
- Develop and articulate the Brand & Channels Workflows product vision & strategy - as an expert in your customer/user you will clearly define the customer/user experience and evangelize that journey with stakeholders and cross-functional partners.
- Lead discovery activities for your team in partnership with cross-functional partner teams
- Prioritize the highest impact problems to solve - weighing trade-offs (leveraging an appropriate method for sizing impact) and defining measurable outcomes for the atomic team to achieve.
- Support the delivery of the products your team builds - in partnership with your Engineering Manager you will ensure delivery and adoption of software products by customers/users.
Desired Qualifications:
- 5+ years of product management or comparable experience in an agile development environment, ideally with exposure to a relevant product area (eCommerce or B2C; SaaS platforms; Enterprise application experience).
- Ability to create clarity in an ambiguous or complex problem space and to break it down and sequence it into multiple end-to-end use cases using logic and data
- Capability to collaborate with engineering teams on scoping technical requirements.
- High attention to detail with a proven track record in taking ownership of problems independently and driving results with a healthy bias for action
- Entrepreneurial mindset and a passion for creating impactful products and services
- Capability to collaborate with the broader organization across multiple time zones and to influence decisions even without direct authority
- An inclusive, adaptable, and persuasive communication style and the ability to author well-structured, data-informed narrative and documents
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.