Senior Product Design Lead, Advertising

The salary range for this position is $155,500 - $167,000 USD per year. The base salary offered may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Restricted stock units will be provided as part of the compensation package. This is a hybrid on-site role, employees will be expected to work out of our Boston, MA office Tuesday-Thursday each week, remote Monday, and Friday. 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 our Partner Home system, as well as the ad formats and placements integrated into Wayfair’s ecommerce experiences (desktop, mobile web, app). What You’ll Do As a 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 transferring that vision into tangible design artifacts (mockups, wireframes, prototypes). Act as both a 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. What you’ll need 8+ years of product design experience Bachelor’s degree in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Industrial Design, or equivalent practical experience. Experience designing for advertising/ad-tech (supply, demand, and/or publisher-based) 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 Strong user research skills are highly valued. Leadership Experience Interested in learning more about Wayfair’s Experience Design team? Check out our Medium: We are looking forward to your application! 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 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. 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