Senior Product Design Lead, Wayfair

• The ideal candidate is a pragmatic design leader—able to navigate ambiguity to conceive a vision in the abstract, before transferring that vision into tangible design artifacts (mockups, wireframes, prototypes)
• 8+ years of product design experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Industrial Design, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience designing for advertising/ad-tech (supply, demand, and/or publisher-based)
• Exceptional interpersonal, collaborative, and communication skills
• Strong understanding of design processes; knowledge of what is possible and what will be hard to achieve and/or implement in a digital environment
• Expertise in producing design deliverables, including detailed user flows/task flows, user journeys, page flows, taxonomies/folksonomies, wireframes, annotations, and prototypes that represent interaction recommendations, etc.
• Strong skills in modern design tools like Figma
• Working knowledge of HTML/CSS/JS—enough to understand feasibility of execution
• The ability to think at systems level and design solutions that are scalable and extensible beyond the immediate use
• Experience presenting and defending designs to senior and executive leadership
• Portfolio and/or case studies of shipped work that demonstrates an ability to effectively design for highly technical experiences, unfailing advocacy for the user, data-driven approach, and strategic thinking

Desirable

• The Supplier Advertising team—within Wayfair’s Global Supplier Technology (GST) organization—owns the strategy, design, engineering, go to market, and analytics of Wayfair’s advertising offering
• Our mission is to empower suppliers with the tools to gain awareness of their brands and products, and grow/optimize their product sales strategies
• Our scope includes the end-to-end supplier-facing advertising experience within our Partner Home system, as well as the ad formats and placements integrated into Wayfair’s ecommerce experiences (desktop, mobile web, app)
• As a Senior Product Design Lead for Supplier Advertising, you will drive the design strategy and execution for the most complicated pieces of our emerging ad business
• This is a highly visible role with significant impact
• Act as both a strategist and product practitioner
• Craft thoughtful and effective user experiences that balance business goals with customer needs
• Collaborate directly with product managers, engineers, designers, business stakeholders, and senior leadership through all stages of the product-development lifecycle
• Triangulate data from multiple inputs to inform design and product strategy
• Represent the voice of our customers (suppliers and shoppers) in product definition and strategy meetings
• Contribute to the development of team members through design review, modeled behavior, dedicated mentorship, or less formal coaching and advice