Product Manager, Wayfair
Data Platforms
A global online homeware marketplace
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A global online homeware marketplace
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of product experience in developing data or analytics platforms, with preference on experience around an end-to-end data journey
- 3+ years of experience of foundational understanding of data technologies, with subject matter expertise in several products, such as such as BigQuery, Pubsub, Kafka, Datastream, Dataflow, and Looker, or similar technologies
- Experience developing or influencing data operations standards such as access management, provisioning of assets, governances processes
- Proven SQL knowledge – can use SQL to pull ad hoc data when necessary
- Strong written and verbal communication and a demonstrated ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Demonstrable ability to be technically hands-on, up to architecting high-level system plans (no coding)
- Drive to deliver customer centric products with clear KPIs on measuring their effectiveness and usability
- Ability to work across several stakeholder groups and juggle many large initiatives simultaneously
- Ability to structure problems, develop clear hypotheses, and prioritize work against the largest impact initiatives
- Experience working with a large engineering team, running their sprints, stand-ups, and backlog
- Cultivate senior presence and be the leader of your product
- Familiarity with Google cloud and its data offerings
What the job involves
- We are looking for a seasoned Technical Product Manager to accelerate the development of our technology stack. In this role, you will be part of driving our enterprise wide strategy to advance the end-to-end user experience in our data landscape.
- This Product Manager will play a central role in developing our data platform and data mesh strategy - partnering with a variety of stakeholders spanning technical (software engineering, Data scientists, product managers) and non-technical (business analysts, senior leadership) stakeholders
- You will work with them to understand Wayfair’s pain points, business KPIs, and current technical gaps to develop a platform that encompasses the end-to-end data journey to advance Wayfair’s ability to delight our customers and suppliers
- In this role, you’ll translate business/user needs into a pragmatic and iterative strategy and roadmap for your engineering team(s), make smart trade-offs between time and complexity to develop market ready solutions, and ensure our solutions make the biggest impact across our spectrum of internal data producers/users.
- You’ll serve as the subject matter expert on the platform, push for adoption for new use cases, and continuously improve our platform capabilities
- Be the subject matter expert and owner of your products and our end-to-end Wayfair data experience
- Prioritize many requests and ideas for features by understanding the business value and impact, weighed against the risks and development cost
- Accountable for the end-to-end delivery of platform enhancements and support
- Develop and maintain a product vision and roadmap, keeping stakeholders and constituents up to date on the top level goals and timelines
- Market your product internally to various departments to ensure all available users know about your product and how they could value from it, measure adoption and invest in any gaps proactively
- Translate product strategy/outcomes into initiatives into engineering stories/tickets, allowing engineering to run with your ideas
- Deeply understand the technology used in your products, the strong and weak points, and become an expert at market options, and influence the pivots when necessary
- Regularly communicate our periodic goals and progress to keep stakeholders apprised of your work and product progress
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
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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