Firm Name: Wayfair

Numbers of Jobs: Senior Product Manager

Education Need: Graduate

Job Hours: 8

Payment: $20-$30/Hours

What's Job City: Saint Paul 

Job Details:

We Are Who We Are.

•  According to Wayfair, everyone ought to live in a place they love. The largest tech-first platform in the housing market is us. In 2022 alone, we served 22 million customers, and there are currently over 30 million products available in our marketplace from 23,000 suppliers.
•  As a product leader in the Storefront organization, you will put your leadership, product-craft, and technical skills to use to create an outstanding shopping experience for all of our customers, both past and present. You will be the team captain of a technology team made up of incredibly talented and dedicated professionals in the fields of engineering, design, user research, and analytics. You'll have an impact on our technological culture, collaborate with others, serve as a mentor, create fresh ideas, and advance your career. Join us in realizing our ultimate objective, which is to be the go-to resource for all things pertaining to the home and to help anyone, anywhere, feel at home.
•  One of the fundamental data platforms that will power all of Wayfair's frontends is being built by our GraphQL Platforms team using cutting-edge technology. Wayfair just switched to GraphQL, but the federated ecosystem already handles more than 10 billion requests each month. The larger federated GraphQL specification has been influenced by the participation of the Wayfair GraphQL team in community events and conferences. By accepting this position and instructing others on how to maintain extremely performant, dependable, and scalable systems, you will have the opportunity to advance the adoption of this system. You will learn how to convince a variety of senior leaders from different industries with the help of your manager. Last but not least, the team is truly amazing. They are devoted, brilliant, and enjoyable, and they represent the team's values of innovation, openness, and ongoing enjoyment.

 You'll act in this way.

•  Organize, plan, and discover the product strategy for the GraphQL Platform.
•  Create an extended plan for a technical transformation that affects every facet of Wayfair.
•  Internally market your products to let the business know what your goals are and how your products help you achieve them.
•  You can win the support of the leadership by being transparent in communications written for large and senior audiences.
•  Take the helm of challenging projects that span numerous product and business domains in order to produce the best results for Wayfair.
•  By collaborating with your leads to restructure processes, build rapport, and acknowledge accomplishments, you can keep your team motivated and healthy.
•  Participate in Wayfair's leadership role within the broader GraphQL community.

 You Will Need These.

•  I have over seven years of experience managing software products, with a focus on data-driven product discovery. a background in technical product work and project management across organizations.
•  You have experience managing platforms and can identify generic capabilities that meet the particular needs of clients, transforming ideas into a vision and a roadmap for the platform's potential.
•  You can participate in highly technical discussions and collaborate effectively with your engineers to design the architecture.
•  working with a clientele that consists primarily of teams from within the company and has knowledge of or an interest in product managing development platforms.
•  an understanding of working at scale (with a large number of developers and web traffic).
•  Understanding performance and quality issues (latency, scalability, availability, and flame graphs).
•  Strong communication skills; able to interact comfortably with engineers as well as explain difficult technical concepts to audiences who are not technically savvy.
•  knowledge of federated GraphQL, also referred to as GraphQL, federation, Apollo, gateway, router, schema registry, and operation registry.
•  knowledge of changing to service-based architectures.
•  an understanding of the OKR planning model in use, as well as the capacity to define KPIs for development platforms.

 The salary range for this position is $161,000 to $172,000, but the base pay offered may differ depending on the location, knowledge, skills, and experience relevant to the job. Along with restricted stock units, the compensation package may also include a full array of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, depending on the position being offered. This information must be provided, per the California Equal Pay Act.

 This position is open to candidates in Boston, Mountain View, Austin, Seattle, or Toronto. It's also completely remote, so that's another qualification.