Senior Product Manager, Storefront Data Engineering

Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Toronto, ON and will be expected to comply with their team's hybrid work schedule requirements.

Who We Are:

Wayfair Data Engineering is the engine that powers an eCommerce enterprise obsessed with data. We move fast, iterating quickly on big business problems.  Every day, our internal-facing data products ingest billions of rows of data about how people pick out the perfect items for their homes, and this data is what drives our business strategies and website development. 

Working within the Data Engineering organization, this PM will tightly partner with Storefront leaders to understand their business goals in order to design, specify and build cutting-edge data products to enable optimization of our website and improve the overall customer experience. The PM should have a long history of successfully building and executing on engineering roadmaps, designing and launching products, and be fluent in modern data frameworks.

What You'll Do

• Create a product roadmap for a cross-functional group of development teams across all platforms. You will own your roadmap, measure performance, keep your pulse on the customer, anticipate bottlenecks, make tradeoffs, and take acceptable risks to maximize the benefit for our customers and business
• Build strong relationships throughout the organization, ensuring transparency across our roadmaps and surfacing opportunities to improve our collective velocity, consistency and/or quality
• Manage the product backlog for a team of data engineers and other internal partners to envision, build and deliver impactful data products for Wayfair’s Storefront teams
• Autonomously establish and maintain collaborative, trusting relationships with stakeholders who are roughly their peers and manage expectations with stakeholders
• Partner closely with dedicated Engineering and Analytics teams to execute against your roadmap and continually improve team velocity
• Improve our product in ways that matter most to our users and have the biggest impact on our KPIs by using quantitative and qualitative data
• Work with your product peers and leadership to contribute to improving our product craft and processes throughout the extended Data Engineering team

We Are a Match Because You Have:

• 5+ years experience in of product management experience for data engineering teams in an Agile development environment
• Strong technical background with a passion for breaking down challenging problems
• Excellent analytical skills with demonstrated experience turning data into actionable insights (preference for working with Google Cloud Platform products such as Google BigQuery, Looker or similar products experiences from another platform)
• Proficient with SQL and writing complex but efficient queries
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills at the senior leadership level, as well as with cross-functional teams, especially ability to partner with engineering teams and explain technical terminology to non-technical audiences
• Deep understanding of business strategy and metrics
• BA with strong academic record (strong preference for technical/engineering backgrounds)
• Positive, people-oriented, and energetic attitude