Associate Director - GST
Associate Director - GST
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Job Description
Who we are
The Global Supplier technology team is responsible for building the scalable platforms for the supplier ecosystem in Wayfair. It starts with establishment of supplier entities their catalog journey advertisement pricing & order management. This platform provides all necessary accelerants for supplier business growth like supplier ads business insights & recommendations. We build scalable platforms to meet the demands of customers and suppliers alike. This position is under the Catalog Engineering team that makes it easy for Wayfairs suppliers to add
or update their product catalog quickly accurately and easily and Internal users to thoroughly review to provide the best customer experience on Wayfairs websites. Our work requires us to move fast and collaborate with some of the most talented engineers creatives product managers data scientists operators and analysts to discover build and scale worldclass software products.
What Youll Do:
- Play a key role in developing and driving a multiyear technology strategy for a complex platform
- Lead multiple software development teams architecting solutions at scale to empower the business and owning all aspects of the SDLC: design build deliver and maintain
- Directly and indirectly manage several software engineers by providing coaching guidance and mentorship to grow the team as well as individuals
- Inspire coach mentor and support your team members in their day to day work and their long term professional growth
- Attract onboard develop and retain diverse top talents while fostering an inclusive and collaborative team and culture (our latest DEI Report)
- Lead your team and peers by example. As a senior member of the team your methodologies technical and operational excellence practices and system designs will help to continuously improve our domain
- Identify propose and drive initiatives to advance the technical skills standards practices architecture and documentation of our engineering teams
- Facilitate technical debate and decision making with an appreciation for tradeoffs
- Continuously rethink and push the status quo even when it challenges your/our established ideas.
What Youll Need:
- Resultsoriented collaborative pragmatic and continuous improvement mindset
- Handson experience driving software transformations within highgrowth environments previous platform experience is required.
- 18 years of experience in engineering out of which at least 8 years spent in leading highly performant teams and their managers
- Experience making architectural and designrelated decisions for large scale platforms understanding the tradeoffs between timetomarket vs. flexibility
- Significant experience and vocation in managing and enabling peoples growth and performance
- Experience designing and building highscale generalizable products with outstanding user experience. Practical experience in hiring and developing engineering teams and culture and leading interdisciplinary teams in a fastpaced agile environment
- Capability to communicate and collaborate across the wider organization influencing decisions with and without direct authority and always with inclusive adaptable and persuasive communication
- Analytical and decisionmaking skills that integrate technical and business requirements
About Wayfair Inc.
Wayfair is one of the worlds largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world were reinventing the way people shop for their homes. Through our commitment to industryleading technology and creative problemsolving we are confident that Wayfair will be home to the most rewarding work of your career. If youre looking for rapid growth constant learning and dynamic challenges then youll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.
No matter who you are Wayfair is a place you can call home. Were a community of innovators risktakers and trailblazers who celebrate our differences and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger smarter and wellpositioned 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. Thats why were 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.
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Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full Time
