Senior Product Manager, AI Platforms

Wayfair's 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 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 with GenAI capabilities. This person will work with cross-functional teams, including science teams, engineers, analysts, on platform capabilities needed for reimagining our customer and supplier experiences utilizing Generative AI.

This person will act with a high degree of freedom and ownership, setting platform vision, forming strong relationships with senior cross-functional partners (both technical and non-technical), aligning on a shared vision for success, and delivering results that create meaningful business impact. This person will translate the business/user needs into a pragmatic and iterative strategy and roadmap, along with providing specifications and user stories for the engineering teams, making smart trade-offs between time and complexity to develop market ready solutions. This Product Manager will serve as the subject matter expert, push for adoption for new use cases, and continually improve our platform capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Understand the landscape of GenAI platforms, tooling and approaches/patterns to solving business problems and is, improving business processes and customer & supplier experiences

• Conduct research and proof-of-concept (POC) initiatives, exploring emerging technologies and applying to value-driving initiatives

• Be the subject matter expert and owner of your products, including capabilities for science teams, and business / technology teams

• Be a highly visible thought partner to senior level leaders, acting as their primary “go-to” for product strategy and related cross-functional initiatives

• Engage with users and stakeholders to understand their-evolving needs and challenges with GennAI development / utilization

• Prioritize requests for features by understanding the business value and impact, weighed against the risks and development cost

• Drive buy vs build, rollout and adoption with cross-functional teams

• 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

• 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

Requirements:

• 5+ years of product experience in developing internal/external platforms, preferably with data or ML platforms

• Understanding and hands-on experience with applying generative AI models to business problems

• Strong experience measuring adoption and engagement metrics, developing plans to address gaps or user experiences issues

• Proven SQL knowledge – can use SQL to pull and analyze 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

• 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 engineering teams, running sprints, stand-ups, and backlog

• Cultivate senior presence and be the leader of your product

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