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Wayfair Senior Product Manager, Client Platforms in Boston, Massachusetts
Candidates for this position are expected to be based in Boston, MA and will need to comply with their team's hybrid work schedule requirements.
Who We Are
The Content & Client Platforms Pod is responsible for the foundational infrastructure and capabilities that every customer-facing at Wayfair team relies on to deliver innovative and exciting experiences. The Client Platforms team’s mission is to enable Wayfair's frontend web and app developers to ship high-quality, performant code quickly and with confidence. We are seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead our frontend platforms across both web and mobile app. In this high-impact role, you'll work at the leading edge of technology to push boundaries in infrastructure, performance, AI tooling, and design systems in order to deliver continuous improvements in velocity and quality.
What You’ll Do
Lead our web & app platform squads, owning the strategy, roadmap and outcomes.
Partner closely with developers across customer technology to build real empathy & understanding for the developer experience, in order to identify ways to improve it.
Drive a performance-first culture across Wayfair's frontend platforms, establishing standards and capabilities that enable best-in-class speed and user experience across all web and app properties.
Apply a data-driven mindset to diagnose bottlenecks in developer efficiency, using metrics and insights to systematically remove friction from the development workflow and enable teams to ship faster with each iteration.
Identify and evaluate leading-edge frameworks, tools, and technologies (including GenAI-powered developer tools) to continuously evolve the frontend platform and improve developer experience.
Own the product strategy for Wayfair's enterprise design system, ensuring it scales to support both designers and developers while maintaining adoption and quality across the company.
Define and evangelize platform KPIs and health metrics that tell a compelling story about platform success, developer productivity, and business impact to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
We Are a Match Because You Have
8+ years experience working in product management.
Value Optimization at Scale. You possess the necessary product management experience to drive consistent value and optimization for widely adopted, mature platform products, ensuring they continue to scale effectively across new teams and use cases.
Deep Developer Empathy. You genuinely enjoy working alongside engineers, understanding their workflows, and diagnosing bottlenecks in their day-to-day experience. You want to 'get your hands dirty' to truly understand pain points and identify opportunities that improve how developers work
Technical Depth in Frontend Architecture. You possess strong technical understanding of modern frontend systems including web frameworks (React, Next.js), build tooling, SSR patterns, and mobile platforms (iOS/Android), enabling you to make informed architectural decisions and partner effectively with senior engineers.
Proven Success in Adoption. You are skilled at evangelizing new platform capabilities and driving their successful adoption, ensuring the platform delivers maximum business value despite initial resistance.
Sufficient Technical Acumen. You possess reasonable technical depth to understand developer workflows and the microservice architecture. You are able to facilitate and help debate technical decisions regarding core services, GraphQL, and service-to-service data transport
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience
Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities
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 Accomodations for Applicants form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ElBqKaQYGR9j0NiQHQYCGbHkqKqN746Nk62pI32IyLU) .
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About Wayfair Inc.
Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston, or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world, we’re 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 you’re looking for rapid growth, constant learning, and dynamic challenges, then you’ll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.
No matter who you are, Wayfair is a place you can call home. We’re 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. That’s why we’re 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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