Associate Director - GST

Who we are

The Global Supplier technology team is responsible for building the scalable platforms for the supplier ecosystem in Wayfair. It starts with establishment of supplier entities, their catalog journey, advertisement, pricing & order management. This platform provides all necessary accelerants for supplier business growth like supplier ads, business insights & recommendations. We build scalable platforms to meet the demands of customers and suppliers alike. This position is under the Catalog Engineering team that makes it easy for Wayfair’s suppliers to add

or update their product catalog quickly, accurately and easily and Internal users to thoroughly review to provide the best customer experience on Wayfair’s websites. Our work requires us to move fast and collaborate with some of the most talented engineers, creatives, product managers, data scientists, operators, and analysts to discover, build, and scale world-class software products.

What You’ll Do:

• Play a key role in developing and driving a multi-year technology strategy for a complex platform
• Lead multiple software development teams - architecting solutions at scale to empower the business, and owning all aspects of the SDLC: design, build, deliver, and maintain
• Directly and indirectly manage several software engineers by providing coaching, guidance, and mentorship to grow the team as well as individuals
• Inspire, coach, mentor, and support your team members in their day to day work and their long term professional growth
• Attract, onboard, develop and retain diverse top talents, while fostering an inclusive and collaborative team and culture (our latest DEI Report)
• Lead your team and peers by example. As a senior member of the team your methodologies, technical and operational excellence practices, and system designs will help to continuously improve our domain
• Identify, propose, and drive initiatives to advance the technical skills, standards, practices, architecture, and documentation of our engineering teams
• Facilitate technical debate and decision making with an appreciation for trade-offs
• Continuously rethink and push the status quo, even when it challenges your/our established ideas.

What You’ll Need:

• Results-oriented, collaborative, pragmatic, and continuous improvement mindset
• Hands-on experience driving software transformations within high-growth environments, previous platform experience is required.
• 18+ years of experience in engineering, out of which at least 8+ years spent in leading highly performant teams and their managers
• Experience making architectural and design-related decisions for large scale platforms, understanding the tradeoffs between time-to-market vs. flexibility
• Significant experience and vocation in managing and enabling people’s growth and performance
• Experience designing and building high-scale generalizable products with outstanding user experience. Practical experience in hiring and developing engineering teams and culture and leading interdisciplinary teams in a fast-paced agile environment
• Capability to communicate and collaborate across the wider organization, influencing decisions with and without direct authority and always with inclusive, adaptable, and persuasive communication
• Analytical and decision-making skills that integrate technical and business requirements