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Wayfair Senior Product Manager - Supplier Advertising API and Agencies in Boston, Massachusetts

<p><strong>This is an onsite role. Employees are expected to be in our Boston office Tuesdays-Thursday, and work remotely Mondays and Fridays.</strong></p>

<p>We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead the 0 to 1 introduction and growth of advertising agencies into what could be the largest channel for suppliers to participate in our Supplier Advertising programs. This work will enable suppliers to reach millions of Wayfair customers and drive 3x growth in our supplier advertising business over the next few years.</p>

<p>In this role, you’ll be responsible for discovering and defining the product vision and strategy for our external API offerings for advertising, integration capabilities, and integration enablement. This is a very collaborative and cross-functional role with high visibility across the company.&nbsp;</p>

<p>You will build industry-leading integration capabilities that provide scalable, consistent, and quality pathways for our suppliers (or advertising agencies on their behalf) to manage their advertising campaigns as effectively as possible. Your tools will enable the continued growth and success of our high-margin Supplier Advertising business and ensure better operations for our suppliers. Hundreds of developers will use your team’s APIs and tools to integrate real-time campaign management and reporting platforms with Wayfair. Success in this role means delivering impactful solutions that get broadly adopted.</p>

<p>​​If you are interested in leading an empowered product team and solving high-impact problems with great colleagues, come join us and help Wayfair grow our business to the next level.</p>

<p><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></p>

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<li>Own product vision and drive commercial strategy for what could be our largest demand channel within the next few years. Envision and guide the creation of extensible systems that enable many thousands of suppliers to participate in Wayfair’s Supplier Advertising programs.</li>

<li>Guide problem scoping and discovery, drive requirements synthesis, and facilitate prioritization and planning to ensure meaningful outcomes for your system users and our suppliers.</li>

<li>Develop a deep understanding of our suppliers, work closely with your business stakeholders to identify new opportunities for them, and drive multiple large, cross-functional initiatives.&nbsp;</li>

<li>Act as a leader on the team, nurturing junior product managers by developing their mastery and growing their autonomy while rolling up your sleeves to assist them directly where necessary.</li>

<li>Work with a high degree of independence and ownership, create strong connections with stakeholders, establish measures of success, and deliver results that enable business impact.</li>

<li>Partner with the engineering team to drive timely and smooth execution by performing sprint rituals like grooming, planning and retrospective.</li>

<li>Drive go to market for your products in partnership with internal or external stakeholders.</li>

<li>Build and maintain product roadmap along with constantly monitoring the success and measuring the impact of your products/features.</li>

<li>Influence the evolution of Wayfair's strategy for advertising offerings.&nbsp;</li>

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<p><strong>How you’ll stand out</strong></p>

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<li>5-7 years experience building software products or infrastructure at scale with measurable impact</li>

<li>Ideal candidates have built / worked on APIs for advertising platforms or have been customers of advertising APIs&nbsp;</li>

<li>Track record of effective partnership with engineering and commercial leadership to build high-impact, technical products with an ability to understand and push on system architecture to improve the product.</li>

<li>A customer-centric mindset with a strong ability to connect technical decisions to customer outcomes to convey the "why" behind decisions.&nbsp;</li>

<li>Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills, with a proven ability to dive deep into data and produce actionable insights.</li>

<li>A high degree of technical fluency, with familiarity building technical platforms operating at scale in large engineering organizations (e.g. API technologies, SDK offerings in specific languages, etc.)</li>

<li>Ability to work with and influence senior leaders (Director+) across various functional areas.</li>

<li>Communication skills and demonstrated ability to form consensus and commitment in an inclusive way, influence business and engineering stakeholders, and drive teams towards clear goals.</li>

<li>Entrepreneurial mindset, with a bias for action and ability to deal with ambiguity, complexity, and fast-paced environments.</li>

</ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities</strong></p>

<p>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&nbsp;<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ElBqKaQYGR9j0NiQHQYCGbHkqKqN746Nk62pI32IyLU" target="_blank">Accomodations for Applicants form</a>.</p>

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