Lead Product Manager, Global Supplier Technology

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Wayfair believes everyone should live in a home they love. Through technology and innovation, Wayfair makes it possible for shoppers to quickly and easily find exactly what they want from a selection of more than 15 million items across home furnishings, decor, home improvement, housewares, and more. Committed to delighting its customers every step of the way, Wayfair is reinventing the way people shop for their homes – from product discovery to final delivery.

We are looking for an experienced Product Manager to build one of the core services for our (new) global Supplier platform. This work will impact ten of thousands of home goods businesses worldwide, and in turn, millions of our customers.

In this role, you’ll be responsible for discovering, defining, and executing the product strategy for our core Supplier Configuration platform. You will also be a major contributor to large strategic initiatives that will impact Wayfair’s long-term success.

Realizing the Supplier Configuration workstream within our Supplier platform will provide scalable and consistent pathways to configure a supplier’s business across the entire Wayfair ecosystem. Your service will enable other teams to create domain configurations, provide consistent processes and ensure error-free experiences for our suppliers across all internal and external touchpoints. Success in this role means delivering impactful solutions that get broadly adopted here at Wayfair.

​​If you are interested in heading an empowered product team and solving high-impact problems at the core of a fast-growing e-commerce business with great colleagues, come join us and help Wayfair grow our business to the next level.

What you‘ll do

  • Own the product strategy and roadmap for an empowered product team. Guide a team of engineers to create extensible systems that enable many thousands of suppliers to do business on Wayfair.
  • Conduct problem scoping and discovery, drive requirements synthesis, prioritize and plan to ensure meaningful outcomes for your system users, our suppliers, and Wayfair.
  • Develop a deep understanding of your domain, its processes, and use cases. Work closely with your business stakeholders to define new and rebuild existing supplier core processes.
  • Collaborate closely with your engineering team to design scalable solutions, define launch strategies, drive adoption, and ensure high usability for our system users.
  • Work with a high degree of independence and ownership, create strong connections with stakeholders, establish measures of success, and deliver results that enable business impact.

What you‘ll need

  • Platform or technical product management experience in an agile development environment, ideally with eCommerce, SaaS, or Enterprise applications.
  • Guide problem scoping and discovery, drive requirements synthesis, and facilitate prioritization and planning to ensure meaningful outcomes for your system users and our suppliers.
  • A high degree of technical fluency, with familiarity building technical platforms operating at scale in large engineering organizations (e.g. API technologies, SDK offerings in specific languages, etc.)
  • Analytical skills with hypothesis-driven problem solving and turning data into actionable insights.
  • Communication skills and demonstrated ability to form consensus and commitment in an inclusive way, influence business and engineering stakeholders, and drive teams towards clear goals.
  • Entrepreneurial mindset, with a bias for action and ability to deal with ambiguity, complexity, and fast-paced environments.

What we will gladly offer

  • Highly competitive compensation packages (comprising of Base Salary and Equity),
  • Full ownership of your wellbeing with our unlimited “Personal Time Off” (XYZ amount of days based on the job family)
  • Paid volunteering work,
  • Contribution to private pension,
  • Commuting schemes (car, bike, public transport),
  • Extensive internal training platform,
  • Free access to LinkedIn e-learning courses and programs,
  • Comprehensive financial scheme for Learning & Development opportunities and continuous education outside the organisation
  • Access to German language courses,
  • Health & Sport memberships,
  • Virtual child care, 
  • Global Wellbeing Program for our employees and their families
  • Parental leave, surrogacy and adoption reimbursement program, extended bereavement leave
  • Employee discount for Wayfair purchases,
  • Corporate benefits,
  • A vast community of ERGs supporting our employees and making Wayfair an inclusive space for us all,
  • Full relocation support plus VISA and sponsorship

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.