Job Description:
Wayfair is looking for an experienced product manager to own data protection & privacy for our core customer data & our websites. Wayfair is investing heavily in customer privacy and sees it as critical to our growth goals. The good news for you is you’d join this high-visibility journey early, with the opportunity to shape privacy for a $14B global F500 company. You’d be accountable for the fun part of Product - Discovery - in partnership with your team of engineers & analysts & cross-functional stakeholders. Over time, you’d build the technical foundation of a privacy program that supports Wayfair’s scale and growth & provides a world-class customer privacy experience. And you’d have fun doing it - Wayfairians and in particular the people you’d work with are collaborative, dedicated, and will challenge you to grow and learn every day.
What You’d Do:
- Lead product discovery and roadmap for customer privacy, leveraging your knowledge of the discovery framework & your discovery toolkit, in partnership with the Marketing Privacy team - together you’ll address the full technical problem space
- Help develop & evangelize Wayfair’s stance on privacy - we’re early in this journey, so you’ll help shape our privacy principles & educate the organization on how privacy interacts with and supports our path toward becoming the destination for all things home
- Define the approach to privacy & access control for our core customer databases - you’ll have a rare opportunity to define & implement this at massive scale
- Partner with Legal, the Data Protection Office, Product, Security, and other teams to identify and educate on privacy needs and drive towards pragmatic solutions
- Communicate regularly with leadership, translating both technical and domain specific adtech language into communications for broad audiences
- Lead complex privacy initiatives that span multiple product areas, ensuring coordination & full understanding to achieve the right outcome for Wayfair
What You Need:
- 5+ years experience in software product management with a focus on data-driven product discovery and experience leading multi-team initiatives
- Curiosity about customer privacy and demonstrated ability to rapidly become an SME (bonus points for existing understanding / experience / advocacy for privacy)
- Demonstrated technical aptitude & interest in learning the technologies powering privacy & data storage at scale - replication, granular authorization / access control; cookies, local storage, browser features, browser & mobile app nuances
- Ability to structure problems, develop clear hypotheses, and rigorously iterate toward solutions that solve the highest-impact problems, bringing others along
- Proven ability to work with and influence a wide range of cross-functional teams and leaders, including influencing to bring structure & rigor to decisions & prioritization
- Others have noted your good writing skills and knack for tailoring communication to the audience - simplifying or going into detail as necessary, with clarity & precision
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.