Senior Product Manager, Wayfair
Display Ads Supplier Experience
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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
Be an early applicant
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
- 5+ years experience in product management
- Experience with advertising is preferred
- Experience leading highly technical products (Services, APIs, etc.) and cross-functional / cross-org initiatives with deep understanding of business strategy
- Track record of launching new products (0-1) and/or scaling existing products (1-100)
- Excellent quantitative skills with demonstrated experience turning data into actionable insights and requirements
- Ability to work at various altitudes and nimbly switch between them: create 2+ year strategies/visions and also make detailed UX/layout decisions
- Ability to keep up in highly technical conversations to make key decisions and effectively communicate tradeoffs with engineers and data scientists
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to think and act both tactically and strategically
- Ability to work with and influence senior leaders (Director+) across various functional areas
What the job involves
- As a Senior Product Manager on our Supplier Advertising team, you will own the discovery, definition, and launch of a Self-Serve Display Ads Experience within our existing Supplier portal that will drive significant Advertiser adoption and revenue.
- On this highly visible team and important investment area, you will partner with user experience design, other PMs, business, and engineering stakeholders across our Supplier organization.
- You will work closely with Product and Engineering leaders (Director+) to create a highly technical strategy of evolving a suite of internal applications supporting a managed service into a Supplier facing self-serve tool, seamlessly integrating with existing Advertising self-serve applications
- Leverage a deep understanding of our customers, business strategy, and KPIs to define and drive the vision for advertising offerings and capabilities used by Wayfair suppliers
- Use a combination of user experience and data science to optimize our product portfolio to improve supplier outcomes and maximize value to the Wayfair business
- Own roadmap planning and manage execution with dedicated Engineering, Machine Learning Science, Experience Design, and Analytics teams
- Explore build vs buy options, interviewing 3P vendors directly and creating decision frameworks
- Evolve our strategy as we learn and adjust our business goals, and work cross-functionally to continually improve velocity of insights and experimentation
- Define product requirements in collaboration with cross-functional teams across departments, including ad footprint, supplier experience, and ad serving
- Partner with the engineering team to drive timely and smooth execution through sprint rituals like grooming, planning and retrospective
- Influence the evolution of Wayfair's strategy for advertising offerings
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.
Kirsty
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Insights
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Prudential / St. Botolph, Boston, MA
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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