Wayfair is hiring a

Senior Associate, Onboarding & Continuous Learning

Boston, United States

***This role reports into our Boston office Monday-Thursday (remote flexibility on Friday).***

Wayfair’s Global Talent Development team is tasked with guiding Wayfair employees through development opportunities and touchpoints so they can grow and succeed from day one forward. Every day we work with key stakeholders across the organization to develop our people and help Wayfair remain a leader in e-commerce. We focus on guiding Wayfair team members to do their best work by developing their skills, helping them increase their impact, and ensuring they feel connected to Wayfair’s core values and culture.

The Role

Wayfair is looking for a driven, customer focused partner to join our Onboarding & Continuous Learning team. In partnership with the team, you will be responsible for running some of our highest priority learning programs that reach our diverse global workforce. Your role will involve defining program strategies (e.g., learning modalities, participant experience, etc.), building learning content, facilitating learning content, and managing programs. You will also report out on key learning metrics, and analyze those metrics to inform iterations. Success in this role is determined by your ability to effectively and efficiently build, execute, and iterate employee learning and development programming to address key talent challenges.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage New Hire Orientation and other live trainings for Wayfair employees of all levels and roles
  • Partner with facilitators, analyze participant feedback, and iterate content
  • Assess and identify new learning needs; design new content as needed, ensuring content is scalable, on brand, and caters to varying learning styles
  • Lead our early career onboarding programs including learning content design that incorporates instructor-led sessions, practical application of new skills, and relationship building opportunities
  • Support program operations (both in person and virtually) including facilitation, participant logistics, and communications
  • Collect and analyze insights from data, such as user feedback, to drive decision making and program iteration
  • Conduct research on learning best practices, adult learning methodology and provide recommendations for the development of new and existing content 

What You'll Need:

  • 3+ years of experience related to Onboarding, New Hire Orientation, Talent Development, or related field
  • Experience with facilitation in large setting and an interest in public speaking
  • Experience with survey management and program management a plus
  • Highly effective at managing timelines, delivery, and communication across teams
  • Excellent interpersonal and team building skills, but also able to work autonomously
  • Demonstrates a relentless customer focus as it relates to program participants and talent stakeholders
  • Thrives in a fast paced environment; works with urgency
  • Aptitude to upskill quickly on new platforms and processes

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 Berlin, 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.

Your personal data is processed in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Notice (https://www.wayfair.com/careers/privacy). If you have any questions or wish to exercise your rights under applicable privacy and data protection laws, please contact us at [email protected].

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