Job Description

Senior Product Manager, Platform Technology

Pay Competitive

Employment type Full-Time

Job Description

Req#: 6705651002

This position is based in Boston, MA. This is a hybrid role with three days on-site per week.

Who We Are

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.

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

• 7+ 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

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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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.

We are interested in retaining your data for a period of 12 months to consider you for suitable positions within Wayfair. Your personal data is processed in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Notice (which can found here: If you have any questions regarding our processing of your personal data, please contact us at dataprotectionofficer@wayfair.com. If you would rather not have us retain your data please contact us anytime at dataprotectionofficer@wayfair.com.

About the company

Wayfair Inc. is an American e-commerce company that sells furniture and home-goods.

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Full time, 3 days per week,

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