Wayfair

Group Product Manager

Posted on: 29 Dec 2021

Austin, TX

Job Description

Job Description

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, Analytics, and business leaders across Wayfair, our Product team ensures that we’re building technology that solves important customer problems in elegant, scalable, measurable ways. 

We are looking for a Group Product Manager to lead our Platform products strategy within Finance Technology. Wayfair commercial systems generate enormous amounts of financially relevant data every minute, and getting that data scalably sourced, validated, and into the hands of accountants, financial analysts, data scientists, and commercial leaders is integral to the success of the business. This team is at the center of our multi-year platform transformation initiative aimed at creating a stronger foundation for finance data that will support the next $50B in Wayfair’s growth. You’ll be joining a highly collaborative team of product managers who have a track record of building large-scale platform products that help thousands of users and process millions of transactions.

What You'll Do

You will be responsible for defining the vision, architecture and execution of the platform products at the heart of all of the tools and analytics products serving Wayfair’s 300-person Finance organization
You'll build a product roadmap prioritized through collaborative analysis and partnership with multiple Engineering organizations that balances foundational platform investments with Wayfair-wide customer and vendor outcomes
You’ll conduct research and discovery initiatives to improve KPIs and build data assets that give you deep understanding of the health of your products and opportunities for improvement
You’ll thoughtfully create strategies to improve customer, colleague, and vendor experiences throughout the order lifecycle with financial data
You’ll balance priorities across multiple stakeholder groups with clarity, candor, and a firm focus on your product strategy and north star metrics

What You'll Need

You’ve spent 8+ years as a Product Manager or Technical Product Manager leading Engineering teams in an Agile environment
You have 2+ years of direct managerial experience, hiring, managing, and growing Product Managers of varying levels of seniority
You've an entrepreneurial spirit and a demonstrated track record of success creating large customer and business outcomes
You’ve cultivated your bias to action and an ability to work at tempo to meet deadlines, handle and prioritize simultaneous requests, and manage large, cross-functional efforts
You’ve learned how to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization, and inspire a cross-functional team to rapidly deliver value to your customers
Your stakeholders praise your communication and collaboration, even though you say “no” to them sometimes
If you have subject matter expertise with ERPs, FP&A software, API-first platform transformation, and building data products for business strategy leaders, that’s a plus

Wayfair

Boston, MA

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.

Our Promise

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 18 million items across home furnishings, décor, 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.

Our Culture

Wayfair is a rapidly growing company with a variety of career opportunities. We offer employees exciting work in a fun, dynamic environment that encourages learning and growth. We are accepting résumés on a rolling basis from motivated individuals who are interested in working in the e−commerce industry.

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