Senior Product Design Lead

Senior Product Design Lead - Partner Home Advertising Team

This is an onsite role. Employees are expected to be in our Boston or Toronto office Tuesdays-Thursday, and work remotely Mondays and Fridays. 

Who We Are

The Supplier Advertising team—within Wayfair’s Global Supplier Technology (GST) organization—owns the strategy, design, engineering, go to market, and analytics of Wayfair’s advertising offering. Our mission is to empower suppliers with the tools to gain awareness of their brands and products, and grow/optimize their product sales strategies. Our scope includes the end-to-end supplier-facing advertising experience within Partner Home, as well as the ad formats and placements integrated into Wayfair’s ecommerce experiences (desktop, mobile web, app). 

What You’ll Do

As the senior product design lead for Supplier Advertising, you will drive the design strategy and execution for the most complicated pieces of our emerging ad business. This is a highly visible role with significant impact. The ideal candidate is a pragmatic design leader—able to navigate ambiguity to conceive a vision in the abstract, before transfering that vision into tangible design artifacts (mockups, wireframes, prototypes). 

• Act as both strategist and product practitioner.
• Craft thoughtful and effective user experiences that balance business goals with customer needs. 
• Collaborate directly with product managers, engineers, designers, business stakeholders, and senior leadership through all stages of the product-development lifecycle. 
• Triangulate data from multiple inputs to inform design and product strategy. 
• Represent the voice of our customers (suppliers and shoppers) in product definition and strategy meetings. 
• Contribute to the development of team members through design review, modeled behavior, dedicated mentorship, or less formal coaching and advice.

We are a match because you have:

• 8+ years of product design experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Industrial Design, or equivalent practical experience.
• Exceptional interpersonal, collaborative, and communication  skills.
• Strong understanding of design processes; knowledge of what is possible and what will be hard to achieve and/or implement in a digital environment.
• Expertise in producing design deliverables, including detailed user flows/task flows, user journeys, page flows, taxonomies/folksonomies, wireframes, annotations, and prototypes that represent interaction recommendations, etc..
• Strong skills in modern design tools like Figma.
• Working knowledge of HTML/CSS/JS—enough to understand feasibility of execution. 
• The ability to think at systems level and design solutions that are scalable and extensible beyond the immediate use. 
• Experience presenting and defending designs to senior and executive leadership.
• Portfolio and/or case studies of shipped work that demonstrates an ability to effectively design for highly technical experiences, unfailing advocacy for the user, data-driven approach, and strategic thinking.
• Bonuses:
• Experience designing for e-commerce
• Experience designing for ad-tech (supply, demand, and/or publisher-based)
• Strong user research skills are highly valued.

Interested in learning more about Wayfair’s Experience Design team?

Check out our Medium: https://medium.com/wayfair-design

Why You’ll Love Wayfair:

• Time Off:
• Paid Holidays
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Health & Wellness:
• Full Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA/FSA)
• Life Insurance
• DIsability Protection (Short Term & Long Term DIsability) 
• Global Wellbeing: Gym/Fitness discounts (including US Peloton, Global ClassPass, and various regional gym memberships)
• Mental Health Support (Global Mental Health, Global Wayhealthy Recordings)
• Caregiver Services
• Financial Growth & Security:
• 401K Matching (Employee Matching Program)
• Tuition Reimbursement 
• Financial Health Education (Knowledge of Financial Education - KOFE)
• Tax Advantaged Accounts
• Family Support:
• Family Planning Support
• Parental Leave
• Global Surrogacy & Adoption Policy
• Professional Development & Recognition:
• Rewards & Recognition 
• Global Employee Anniversary Awards 
• Paid Volunteer Work 
• Unique Perks:
• Employee Discount 
• U.S. Bluebikes Membership
• Global Pod Outings
• Work/Life Balance:
• Emphasizing a supportive & flexible work environment that encourages a balance between personal and professional commitments 

We are looking forward to your application!

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 Accommodations for Applicants form.

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