Product Manager, Platform Engineering

Wayfair believes everyone deserves a home they love, and that furnishing your home should be a source of fun, not anxiety. Our product team plays a crucial role in making this vision a reality for millions of people around the world. Partnering with engineering, UX design, analytics, and business partners across Wayfair, our product team ensures that we’re building technology that solves important customer problems in elegant, scalable, measurable ways. We have a modern tech stack including sophisticated capabilities around haproxy, consul, and terraform (to name a few). We’re a highly collaborative, supportive team that values learning, psychological safety, and intentional career development.

Who We Are

The Platform Engineering group at Wayfair is responsible for the core technologies that underlie a cutting-edge e-commerce business and exceptional customer experience, from product selection, order processing, and logistics optimization to providing product search and recommendation using industry-proven search backend. Our team is looking for a smart, passionate, and curious Product Manager who is excited to help us scale our platform engineering practice. The goal of this team is to provide a more self-service and autonomous cloud environment as a way to support Wayfair’s cloud-native transformation and adoption of microservices and ultimately accelerate developer velocity via best practices guidance, providing paved paths for easier onboarding and lower toil for service ownership and operational activities.

What You'll Do: 

• Own product strategy, development, and roadmaps that support the Platform Engineering group within the Wayfair-wide Tech Transformation objective.
• Partner with business stakeholders including Storefront, MarTech, Global Supplier Tech, Pricing Tech, and partner groups in Infrastructure & Platforms to understand their businesses and co-develop impactful solutions that drive key business value.
• Use Agile processes to collaborate with partnering teams to execute the roadmap.
• Communicate and promote the product vision and progress throughout Wayfair including senior partners and Technology leaders.
• Develop and monitor OKRs for key product initiatives and ensure alignment with stakeholder objectives.
• Work with management to improve product craft and processes throughout your workgroup.

What You’ll Need

• 5 + years building products or infrastructure at scale from concept to launch and beyond
• To focus on customer problems and solutions, and
• To have demonstrated success in creating products that drive business impact.
• Literacy to participate in making key choices as well as effectively communicate with technical partners such as Engineering.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills at the senior partner level.
• Positive, people-oriented, and collaborative attitude.
• A mentality that pushes through issues with creative solutions and tenacity, while maintaining a grace-under-pressure demeanor.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency, knowledge, and experience with adoption and leveraging cloud-native technology in large-sized organizations (AWS, Azure, or GCP, with a preference to experience with GCP)
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and/or education or experience in a technical capacity (Computer/Electrical Science/Engineering etc.)
• MBA/Master’s degree in management

 

 This position is based in Boston, MA. This is a hybrid role that requires a minimum of four days on-site per week.

Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities
Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact candidateaccommodations@wayfair.com.
 
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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 tha