Product Manager, Data Platforms
Product Manager, Data Platforms
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Candidates for this position are preferred to be based in Bengaluru India and will be expected to comply with their teams hybrid work schedule requirements.
Who We Are:
Wayfairs 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. Youll 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. Youll serve as the subject matter expert on the platform push for adoption for new use cases and continually improve our platform capabilities.
What Youll 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 youll Need:
- Overall of 6 years of experience and 3 years into product experience in developing platforms preferably with data platforms real-time events management batch data movement and related areas
- 3 years of experience of foundational understanding of data technologies with subject matter expertise in several products such as Airflow Kafka BigQuery Spark and Data visualization tools such as Looker or similar technologies
- Experience developing or influencing data operations standards such as access management provisioning of assets governances processes
- Proven SQL knowledge can use SQL to pull ad hoc data when necessary
- Strong written and verbal communication and a demonstrated ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Demonstrable ability to be technically hands-on up to architecting high-level system plans (no coding)
- Drive to deliver amazing products that customer centric with clear KPIs on measuring their effectiveness and usability
- Ability to work across several stakeholder groups and juggle many large initiatives simultaneously
- Ability to structure problems develop clear hypotheses and prioritize work against the largest impact initiatives
- Experience working with a large engineering team running their sprints stand-ups and backlog
- Cultivate senior presence and be the leader of your product
- Familiarity with Google cloud and its data offerings
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 industry-leading technology and creative problem-solving 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 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. 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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