Senior Product Manager, Catalog Manipulation

Who We Are:

Wayfair believes everyone should live in a home they love. Through technology and innovation, Wayfair makes it possible for shoppers to quickly and easily find exactly what they want from a selection of more than 15 million items across home furnishings, decor, home improvement, housewares, and more. Committed to delighting its customers every step of the way, Wayfair is reinventing the way people shop for their homes – from product discovery to final delivery.

The Catalog foundation Superpod is on a mission to create highly scalable, flexible best in class platforms and services that allows Wayfair to give Customer and Supplier an ideal experience. We operate as an enterprise-level interface between Wayfair’s Catalog of 15M+ products and Wayfair’s customer-facing properties (web/mobile), as well as major internal business areas (e.g., BI/Analytics, Ops, Supply chain) who access our data billions of times daily to power their operations in increasingly dynamic ways. 

If you are interested in solving high-impact operational and technical challenges at the core of a highly-scaled e-commerce business alongside great colleagues, this is the place to be.

In this role of Senior Product Manager, you will own product management of high-impact catalog manipulations space, which is core to adding and updating catalog items. This is a very cross-functional, high-visibility role with the potential to substantially impact Wayfair’s long-term success. 

What You'll Do:

• Lead the product strategy and roadmap for a highly utilized internal platform team within Catalog foundations. 
• You will envision and guide the creation of new capabilities that allow Wayfair’s tens of thousands of Suppliers (and increasingly third party platforms) to seamlessly interact with our catalog of >15 million products, making Wayfair an even more seamless extension of their business.
• Serve as a major service-oriented platform for internal engineering teams that need to add and update critical “source of truth” product data throughout the catalog to power ongoing operations, investing in critical new capabilities that support Wayfair’s continued growth.
• Guide problem scoping and discovery across multiple functional areas, drive requirements synthesis and facilitate prioritization to determine how Wayfair should invest in technical capabilities that drive the highest impact business outcomes.
• You will act with a high degree of autonomy and ownership, creating strong relationships with cross-functional teams (both technical and non-technical), establishing a shared vision for success, and delivering results that create measurable business impact.

What You'll Need:

• 6+ years of product management or comparable experience in an agile development environment, ideally with exposure to a relevant product area (eCommerce; SaaS platforms; Internal tools; High availability services).
• Past experience successfully driving large, technical, cross-functional product initiatives with significant business impact.
• A high degree of technical fluency, with familiarity building technical platforms operating at scale in large engineering organizations using modern software development tools (orchestration engines, top-tier programming languages, SQL vs. NoSQL databases, API technologies, event-streaming, etc.)
• Superior organizational and analytical skills with hypothesis-driven problem solving and turning data into actionable insights.

• Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience forming consensus out of ambiguity and complexity, influencing senior business and engineering leaders, and driving teams forward with sustainable urgency towards clear goals 
• Entrepreneurial mindset, with a bias for action and ability to deal with ambiguity and fast paced  environments.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline (e.g., computer science, mathematics, physics, economics) or equivalent practical experience

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 let us know by completing our Accomodations for Applicants form.

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