Senior Product Manager, Wayfair
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3 days a week in office
A global online homeware marketplace
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A global online homeware marketplace
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires a candidate with a comprehensive understanding of complex, cross-functional systems across multiple domains and a passion for creating data-driven, personalized experiences
- 6+ years experience working in product management. Experience in ecommerce, and at companies that own a significant tech stack highly valued
- An ownership mentality. You’ve autonomously set a ~12 month vision for your domain, prioritizing a body of work that optimizes for customer outcomes. You’ve challenged yourself and others to proactively improve your product, its reliability, and plans for its future state. You propose adjustments to priorities as needed, and take responsibility for outcomes, celebrating team wins and surfacing learning moments openly
- Good judgment. You manage risk, know when to pivot, can assess multiple paths forward, and use data to inform and advocate for the right next steps
- Proven results. You have experience moving the needle on KPIs. You’ve unlocked customer value through strong product discovery and technical delivery. You’ve partnered to get it done, and you have a proven track record of sustaining and maintaining a high bar for your product space, even post launch
- Experience building creative yet scalable solutions. You know how to balance short term learnings with long term solutioning. Everything you build is a series of tradeoffs, and your experience to date has helped you fine tune balancing those tradeoffs given a set of constraints
- Team leadership. You autonomously manage teams, have influenced cross-functional stakeholders, and know how to navigate multi-domain technical complexity. You drive a culture of learning, radical candor, process creation/adoption within you team(s) and your broader Pod / SuperPod
What the job involves
- We are seeking an innovative, entrepreneurial and technical product leader to drive the strategic vision and execution of the Wayfair.com homepage, search experience and global navigation
- This role is pivotal in shaping how our customers discover and engage with our products. You will have the opportunity to leverage cutting-edge AI and personalization technologies to craft a best-in-class user experience, guiding customers on a seamless journey from the moment they land on our site
- You will not only oversee the implementation of the product roadmap, but define the long-term strategy for how we introduce customers to our site, ensuring a unique and tailored experience for every individual
- Use data to understand customer needs and behaviors; map those against business objectives, and transform that knowledge into AI-powered product enhancements
- Build client agnostic backends that solve for the needs of customers across all of our platforms: iOS and Android apps, mobile web and desktop applications
- Given a broad and complex product strategy, independently own and craft a sequenced set of outcomes and solutions over a 12+ month time horizon
- Build and maintain roadmaps for your product(s); partner with user experience design and usability, analytics, engineering, technical program managers, other product managers, and stakeholders to translate your vision and roadmap into reality
- Drive measurable results and/or learnings using testing best practices; monitor performance of your focus area
Our take
Wayfair emerged in the early era of eCommerce with a mission to revolutionize online shopping, offering customers a convenient platform to purchase goods. Today, it stands as one of the foremost global players in the online furniture delivery industry, boasting an impressive inventory of over 33 million products.
Renowned for its extensive product range and comprehensive service offerings, Wayfair distinguishes itself by providing an end-to-end customer experience, from browsing to doorstep delivery. Despite its prominence, the company faces profitability challenges attributed largely to expansion expenses. Nonetheless, its solid presence in the competitive online homeware sector solidifies its position as a key contender.
With ambitious global expansion plans, Wayfair remains committed to maintaining its leadership in the industry. As it aspires to become the ultimate destination for all home needs, its more recent ventures into physical retail represent significant strides toward this overarching goal.
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company values
- Relentless Customer Focus: Delivering an exceptional customer experience drives everything we do. We invest in understanding our customers and partners. We are all in customer service
- Deliver Rsults With Agility: We prioritize work that drives long-term value. We execute with urgency, learn from failure, and nimbly pivot. The outcomes of our efforts are impactful, measurable results
- Use Good Judgement: We are bold and confident, never reckless. We make reasoned, calculated decisions based on data, critical thinking, and pattern recognition
- Build the Best Team: We lead by setting the bar high, articulating clear goals, and diving deep. We hire, develop, and leverage only the best. Our leaders continually reevaluate and strengthen their teams and do not shy away from hard decisions. We expect and demonstrate excellence
- Collaborate Effectively: We invest in cross-functional global partnerships that maximize impact and minimize duplication. We prize collaboration in all interactions – with our teammates, stakeholders, and suppliers. We disagree, align, and commit. Effectiveness and efficiency in collaboration are required.
- Respect Others: We earn and show respect, treating our teammates and partners with empathy and inclusion. We presume good intent while prioritizing impact. We balance confidence and candor with humility and kindness.
- Be an Owner: We are Wayfair first. We act on what’s best for the company, ahead of team or individual goals. We spend every dollar as if it is our own. We take pride in Wayfair’s success while planning the next win. We always think long-term
- Innovate & Improve: We are not limited by precedent. We boldly challenge the norm. We continually identify opportunities to innovate, improve, and simplify. We value incremental improvements, but we also look for game-changing breakthroughs.
- Adapt & Grow: We value adaptability and self-reflection. We find opportunity in every change, experience, and mistake. We are committed to continuous self-improvement.
Company HQ
Prudential / St. Botolph, Boston, MA
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Leadership
Niraj Shah
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Engineering at Cornell University before co-founding Spinners, a Boston-based IT services company. Previously acted as Entrepreneur in Residence for Greylock and has served as CEO of Wayfair since co-founding the company in 2002.
Steven Conine
(Co-Founder)Co-founded Spinners before working for Operations at iXL. Conine also co-founded Pillar VC in 2016.
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