Senior Product Manager - Supplier Advertising - Wayfair
Boston, MA
About the Job
This is an onsite role. Employees are expected to be in our Boston or Toronto office Tuesdays-Thursday, and work remotely Mondays and Fridays.
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. Suppliers are crucial partners in enabling Wayfair’s mission. Within Global Supplier Technology (GST), the Supplier Advertising team owns the strategy, design, engineering, go to market, and analytics of Wayfair’s Advertising offerings, a key part of Wayfair’s growth trajectory.
As a Senior Product Manager on our Supplier Advertising team, you will own the discovery, definition, and launch of new advertising offerings on this highly visible team. You will partner with user experience design, machine learning, business, and engineering stakeholders across our supplier and shopper experiences. You will launch new advertising offerings and optimize existing experiences to maximize value generated from our advertising portfolio by balancing the needs of our suppliers, customers shopping our site, and the marketplace overall.
What You'll Do
- 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.
- 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.
What You'll Need
- 5+ years experience in product management.
- Experience with advertising is preferred.
- Experience leading technical products 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 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.
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 that Wayfair will be home to the most rewarding work of your career. If you’re looking for rapid growth, constant learning, and dynamic challenges, then you’ll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.
No matter who you are, Wayfair is a place you can call home. We’re a community of innovators, risk-takers, and trailblazers who celebrate our differences, and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger, smarter, and well-positioned for success. We value and rely on the collective voices of our employees, customers, community, and suppliers to help guide us as we build a better Wayfair – and world – for all. Every voice, every perspective matters. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.
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