Job Responsibilities: Product Manager
Salary: $20-30/Hour
Company: Wayfair
Location: USA
Educational Requirements: Bachelor's Degree
Full Job Description:
As a Product Leader at Storefront, you will leverage your leadership, product expertise, and technical expertise to create a world-class shopping experience for all of our customers (current and future). You will lead a virtual technology team of dedicated team members across engineering, design, user research and analytics. You will shape our technology culture, collaborate, coach, innovate, deliver and grow your work. Join us in our ultimate goal: to be a place where everything is at home, helping everyone, everywhere to create a sense of belonging. Our GraphQL Platforms team builds one of the foundational data sets that all of Wayfair will use to power their website and we do it with bleeding edge technology. Although migration to GraphQL is still relatively new at Wayfair, the ecosystem has grown to more than 10 billion users per month. The Wayfair GraphQL team has been invited to conferences and community events, and influenced the direction of the larger GraphQL specification. By doing this work, you will have the opportunity to take this process to the other side, teaching others how to maintain a very high performance, stable and scalable system. You also learn to make authorities different spirits and diversity of your manager. Finally, the same is really wonderful. They are enthusiastic, bright and live by the group values of creativity, understanding and always having fun.
What to do:
Lead product discovery, strategy and roadmap for Wayfair's GraphQL platform
Get a long-term vision for Wayfair's pervasive technology revolution
Communicate your product to help the organization understand your vision and how it helps achieve its goals
Create managerial marketing through insight, translating domain-specific expertise into communications for a broad and senior audience
Lead a complex process that spans multiple product and business areas, ensuring coordination and transparency are sufficient to achieve the right results for Wayfair.
Keep your team healthy and engaged, engage with your prospects to improve processes, build trust and celebrate wins
Contribute to Wayfair's leadership role in the global GraphQL community
What you will need:
3+ years of software product management experience with a focus on data-driven product discovery. Experience in technical products leading cross-organizational initiatives.
You manage the platform and can identify the full potential that meets specific customer needs, turning ideas into visions and maps for what the platform can become.
You work closely with your engineers as you shape construction and can engage in high-tech discussions
Experience and/or interest in managing the product development process and working with customers who are part of the company.
Experience working at scale (volume of developers and web traffic)
Understanding of quality and performance issues (latency, scalability, availability, flame graph)
Strong communication skills; can explain complex technical concepts to non-audiences, but feel comfortable talking to engineers. Knowledge of Federated GraphQL (Keywords, GraphQL, Federation, Apollo, Gateway, Router, Schema Registry, Operation Registry)
Transitional experience in a role-based industry
Familiarity with OKR strategy and KPI specification for development platforms.
