Who We Are:

Sales Tech builds the platforms and tools to provide our sales and service associates a world class B2C pre-sales customer support and solution engine as well as creates systems and experiences that makes Wayfair the go-to destination for the FF&E needs of every business. To support our long term vision, we build customer-intelligent, market-driven customer and prospect acquisition channels and are responsible for all aspects of the agent experience including engineering the tools they use to manage leads, opportunities, orders, and the process systems they rely on such as compensation tracking. In addition, we own areas such as CRM management, top of funnel/sales intelligence analysis, and post-order customer experience for our B2B customers.

What You’ll Do

• Manage a team of software engineers focused on a bounded domain with cross-functional impact
• Leverage quantitative and qualitative measures to build a capable team with strong leadership through effective performance management, headcount planning, hiring, on-boarding, retention, and continuous improvement.
• Own features developed by your team in each phase of the software development lifecycle from problem space discovery to ongoing operation in user-facing environments
• Collaborate with functional experts across the whole team, particularly product owners, user experience, and physical operations team members, to build and maintain a robust, well understood product roadmap
• Break down complex initiatives into concrete iterative pieces balancing the best technical solutions with long term needs of customers, field associates, and the organization. 
• Work with functional experts across the whole team to develop appropriate measures and monitors for customer, field associate, and operational outcomes as well as system performance.
• Drive improvements and provide visibility to progress via short feedback loops, data-driven decisions, and user feedback.
• Seek out, define, and evolve best practices within teams’ area of focus as well as initiatives that raise the standards across the organization.

What You’ll Need

• 2+ years experience managing teams of software engineers that deliver business impacting applications
• Prior hands-on experience designing, building and maintaining scalable full stack applications (we primarily use PHP, Java, and Python, though any language will do as long as you are willing to learn)
• Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL Datastores (we primarily use SQL Server and Google Big Query)
• Thorough understanding of changing best practices in software engineering to help agile teams build resilient and scalable software
• Proficiency in cross-functional consensus building and influencing without authority
• Proficiency in effective troubleshooting, issue resolution, and continuous improvement techniques