Product Manager - Data Platforms

Who We Are :

Wayfair's core platforms are increasingly driven by a cutting-edge set of data and machine learning systems that interact in complex ways to ensure that we are using our rich datasets to their full potential. Business applications of these learning systems span many fields including recommendations, marketing, supply chain optimization and merchandising. These fields require a sophisticated data technology stack that allows for complex data and machine learning systems combined with configurability for rapid testing and exploration.

We are looking for a seasoned Product Manager to accelerate the development of our technology stack, leading our data platforms (specifically our Data Ingestion systems that include real-time event management and batch data ingestion technologies) that serve thousands of users and applications (incl. analytics and ML use cases) within Wayfair. This Product Manager will play a central role in developing our data platforms and partnering with a variety of stakeholders in both engineering, product and data science. You will work with them to understand our pain points, our internal business KPIs, and our current technical gaps to develop a platform that advances our ability to delight the customers and suppliers. You’ll translate business / user needs into a pragmatic and iterative strategy and roadmap, along with providing specifications and user stories for your engineering team(s), making smart trade-offs between time and complexity to develop market ready solutions. You’ll serve as the subject matter expert on the platform, push for adoption for new use cases, and continually improve our platform capabilities.

What You'll Do :

• Be the subject matter expert and owner of your products, particularly our Data Ingestion technologies that handles different volume, velocity and variety in real-time and batch.
• Prioritize many requests and ideas for features by understanding the business value and impact, weighed against the risks and development cost
• Accountable for the end-to-end delivery of platform enhancements and support
• Develop and maintain a product vision and roadmap, keeping stakeholders and constituents up to date on the top level goals and timelines
• Market your product internally to various departments to ensure all available users know about your product and how they could value from it, measure adoption and invest in any gaps proactively
• Translate product strategy / outcomes into initiatives into engineering stories / tickets, allowing engineering to run with your ideas
• Deeply understand the technology used in your products, the strong and weak points, and become an expert at market options, and influence the pivots when necessary
• Regularly communicate our periodic goals and progress to keep stakeholders apprised of your work and product progress

What you’ll Need :