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Wayfair is a rapidly growing company with a variety of career opportunities.
Wayfair, your online destination for everything home, is a dynamic, rapidly growing company with exciting career opportunities. We offer engaging work in a fun, fast-paced environment that encourages learning and growth, while rewarding results and impact.

The Wayfair Culture

From Boston to Berlin, every person at Wayfair is encouraged to contribute in a meaningful and impactful way.

We look for individuals who are bright, collaborative, driven, and interested in analytic insights. We believe transparency is important and information empowers, so we give everyone access to company data and systems which improve the speed and accuracy of decision making.

Smart risk-taking is encouraged even if it fails. We welcome employees to share new ideas and we foster a positive learning environment where hard work is rewarded.

Our Core Values

We Love a Zillion Options

Delivering options across styles and price points for our customers is what we do. With more styles and more choice, there is more chance of finding stuff for your home.

We Use Our Brains

We trust and empower our employees to build solutions and systems for complex problems.

We Like Transparency

We gather and share information openly and transparently because it enables us to figure things out, build relationships, and make shopping easier.

We Are Never Done

We’re passionate about continually making things better and faster through open minds and teamwork, measuring results, then adjusting.

We Are “Go-To” People

We are a company full of “go-to” people who help each other, our customers, and our communities by being active, accountable, and accessible.

Social Responsibility

Awards & Recognition

    2012
  • Best Places to Work, Employee Choice Awards, Glassdoor.com
  • Best Places for Work Life Balance, Glassdoor.com
  • Digital 100: Most Valuable Tech Companies in the World, Business Insider
  • Best Technology Companies to Work for in America, Business Insider
    2013
  • 16th Most Promising Company in America, Forbes Magazine
  • Ranked 52nd on Top 500 Retailer List, Internet Retailer Magazine
  • Fastest Growing Companies in Massachusetts, Boston Business Journal
  • Best Places to Work in Massachusetts, Boston Business Journal
  • CFO of the Year, Nicholas Malone, Boston Business Journal
  • Hottest Start-Up of 2013, New England Venture Capital Association
  • 40 Under 40 — Niraj Shah, Fortune Magazine
    2014
  • Tech Luminary Award—Niraj Shah & Steve Conine, Boston Business Journal
  • Power 50—Most Influential Bostonians—Niraj Shah, Boston Business Journal
  • Ranked 45th on Top 500 Retailer List, Internet Retailer Magazine
  • Best Places to Work in Massachusetts, Boston Business Journal
  • Fastest Growing Companies in Massachusetts, Boston Business Journal
    2015
  • Exit of the Year, New England Venture Capital Association
  • Boston's 50 Most Powerful People- Niraj Shah, Boston Magazine
  • Inducted into MITX Innovation Hall of Fame—Niraj Shah & Steve Conine
  • The Largest Public Companies in Massachusetts, Boston Business Journal
  • Best Places to Work: Extra Large Cos., Boston Business Journal
  • Hot 100 Most Innovative Retailers, Internet Retailer Magazine
    2016
  • Ranked #33 on Top 500 Retailer List, Internet Retailer Magazine
  • Ranked #41 on Top 50 Retailing Giants, Home and Textiles Today
  • People's Choice Award for Favorite Customer Service, The Stevie Awards
  • Gold, Customer Service Department of the Year, The Stevie Awards
  • Ranked #1, Top 50 E-Marketing, Internet Retailer Magazine
  • Best Places to Work: Extra Large Cos., Boston Business Journal
  • Ranked #24 on Top 500 Retailer List, Internet Retailer Magazine
  • Ranked #15, America's Best Midsize Employers, Forbes

Our Commitment

Wayfair is committed to an environment that provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified candidates, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or disability.

Buying/Merchandising

The Buying/Merchandising team consists of entrepreneurially minded individuals who build and execute tactical road maps for our rapidly growing businesses. By adhering to a formula of strategic analysis, idea generation, and creative presentation, we propel Wayfair forward as a key innovator in ecommerce. Buyers move with a sense of urgency and autonomy to manage category verticals and accompanying supplier portfolios, and exemplify style, creativity, and analytic ability. Merchandisers oversee the look and feel of products, understand and guide consumer behavior, and build customized, hand-curated landing pages to create a one-of-a-kind shopping experience.

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Buying/Merchandising Team:

“As a buyer, I’m encouraged to take a creative and analytical approach to strategy building and problem solving. I feel empowered to drive all aspects of my business.”- Karen, Buying Manager for Joss & Main

Analytics

The Analytics team collects, analyzes, and reports data to give the whole company insight into the big picture. Our goal is to empower everyone at Wayfair with timely, accurate, and actionable information. We love SQL and Python, work with the best massively-parallel-processing databases to speed analyses, and think critically to tackle complex challenges. Whether through Business Intelligence, Data Science, Operations Research, or Pricing, we have broad exposure to the workings of Wayfair and use our expertise in big data to facilitate business decisions. When other Wayfair teams need to know about customer, clickstream, product, financial, or other data, they count on Analytics.

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Analytics Team Stats:

116 Terabytes of compressed data stored in our data warehouse (138 terabytes uncompressed)
250,000 lines of code executed each morning
170 pickup trucks worth of data added to the Data Warehouse every day (if we were to print it all...but we don’t)
21,000 queries handled each day by our BI platform

Category Management

From Furniture to Home Improvement, the Category Management team handles a wide range of responsibilities. We drive category growth by developing merchandising strategies and conducting in-depth operational analyses to build supplier relationships. We are results-driven, proactive, and enthusiastic leaders in spearheading the growth of Wayfair's core business.

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Category Management Team:

“The opportunity for growth at Wayfair is remarkable and has proven to be a catalyst for both my career and personal development. I am consistently supported by senior leadership to take calculated risks, attack goals, and drive results.” - Bryanna, Senior Category Manager
“Wayfair is a place where I am able to receive continued mentorship to help me achieve my career goals. The culture here is truly unique – a collaborative, fun, and fast-paced environment Mike, Associate Director

Creative & User Experience

As one of the largest in-house creative teams in Boston, Creative and UX creates innovative, visually striking designs that enhance and promote the Wayfair brand. Consisting of a multi-disciplinary group of art directors, visual designers, UX designers, video editors, photographers, stylists, and copywriters, we collaborate cross-functionally to develop inspired solutions that secure Wayfair's position as a leader in the home industry.

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Customer Service

The Customer Service team is passionate about guaranteeing an exceptional experience for our shoppers. We work directly with customers to ensure that their questions are answered and their needs are met, and make Wayfair an easy and fun place to shop. We are energetic and enthusiastic problem solvers who enjoy building meaningful relationships with our customers.

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Customer Service Stats:

2,500,000 phone calls answered in 2015
1,800,000 emails answered in 2015
1,000,000 hours spent with customers in 2015
300,000+ live chats handled in 2015

Engineering

The Engineering team consists of talented and insightful individuals with experience in IT operations and software engineering, and a passion for solving complex business problems through software innovation. Our broad product diversity and dynamic business model pushes the limits of software innovation in the retail industry.

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Finance

The Finance team consists of detail-oriented, highly organized individuals who oversee the company's financial well-being while supporting operational and general business planning. We solve challenging accounting problems and provide financial analyses to determine key operational decisions within a growing and diversifying organization. We are dedicated to meeting new challenges head on at each milestone in Wayfair's development and can adapt to changes within a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

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General & Administrative

The General & Administrative function includes a variety of teams essential to the success of Wayfair, including administrative support, legal, facilities, and operational support teams.

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Marketing

The Marketing team is comprised of a bunch of quantitative and creative folks, all who get excited to try new and innovative ways to help our customers know and love Wayfair. We bring Wayfair to life for our customers, bringing more customers to Wayfair and keeping existing customers coming back. The group includes our Brand, Social Media, and PR teams who focus on upstream marketing activities to drive awareness, our Customer Acquisition team who works on multi-channel direct response marketing, and our Customer Loyalty team who ensures we communicate relevantly with existing customers. Our work spans every product category, five countries, and every customer segment. We are continually experimenting and improving to find the best way to communicate and deliver the best customer experience with Wayfair.

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Media

The Wayfair Media Solutions teams consist of individuals who are exceptionally versatile, acting as consultants, product developers, and marketers on a daily basis. We deliver unique and innovative media products that drive our partners' businesses, and work cross-functionally to kick-start and perfect new entrepreneurial ventures that keep Wayfair on the cutting edge of ecommerce.

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Media Stats:

450,000,000+ monthly ad impressions delivered
29,000,000+ unique monthly visitors
#1 Lifestyle - Home site

Operations

The Operations group focuses on providing world-class order fulfillment and service with end-to-end order tracking and outstanding customer care. Consisting of CastleGate, Distribution, EU Operations, Logistics, Merchandising, Sales & Service, and Supplier Operations, we work with our suppliers, carriers, and internal departments to ship products fast and on-time, all while continuously improving the end experience for customers.

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Operations Stats:

431,000,000 pounds of home goods shipped in 2015
14,600,000 orders shipped in 2015 - 28 orders every minute
940,000 unique products sold in 2015
3,300,000 new products added each year

Operations Product Innovation

Operations Product Innovation, an internal consulting team, uses technology to make the business run more efficiently. By analyzing daily operations (Customer Service, Outbound Sales, Product Catalog Management, Fulfillment, and Warehousing), we find opportunities to improve the customer experience and reduce costs—while collaborating with Engineering to bring our solutions to life.

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Product Management

Product management teams are responsible for differentiating Wayfair from its competition across all aspects of e-commerce, from traffic acquisition to storefront to supply chain to financial reconciliation to customer service. Our product managers work closely with marketing, content, engineering, and design teams to conceive and implement solutions. We conceive ideas, harness ideas by collaborating with rest of the organization, write requirements, work with engineering and design to get the ideas implemented, monitor the performance of the ideas and optimize them. If you are a leader and bring a blend of technical, business and customer focus, we want to hear from you.

  • Mobile Apps: We focus on iOS and Android phone and tablet usage across all Wayfair brands, both in the U.S. and internationally.
  • Frequency: We focus on 90-day repurchase, and experiences that continue to inspire our shoppers to choose Wayfair.
  • Find: We focus on high-intent shopping, including Search, as well as item verticals and compare tools.
  • Trust and Conversion: We focus on the mid- and bottom-funnel customer experience driving conversion.
  • H/C/M: We focus on mobile and desktop homepage and navigation experiences.
  • International: We focus on transforming data into insights and strategy to achieve international business goals.
  • B2B: We focus on Wayfair Business and Trade Services.
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Sales

The Sales team consists of talented and energetic consultants who work directly with customers ranging from direct consumers, business owners, trade experts, and design professionals. We ensure that Wayfair is the go-to place for customers to find products that meet their diverse needs. We strive to build relationships with our customers in a fast-paced, commision-driven, and competitive environment.

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Sales Stats:

2,500,000 phone calls answered in 2015
1,800,000 emails answered in 2015
300,000+ live chats handled in 2015
1,000,000 hours spent with customers in 2015

Talent Operations

The Talent Operations team provides support for every Wayfair team member, from recruitment and onboarding to learning/development and career management. We empower employees to achieve their goals and help the company build the talented team it needs to meet objectives. We are the group who makes sure the fun, hardworking, and innovative culture of Wayfair is constant in the lives of everyone who works here.

Our team consists of three strategic groups:

  • Learning & Development: We encourage learning and serve as a resource for all employees by handling New Hire Orientation, onboarding, learning and development courses, performance reviews, and management training programs.
  • Talent Acquisition: We partner closely with business leaders and hiring managers, and interview teams to identify, source, and obtain the best talent in the market. We are responsible for filling all open positions across the company, from university-level interns to experienced senior directors and VPs.
  • Talent Management: We are responsible for supporting our employees, who are the biggest factors in Wayfair’s success. From benefits administration, to recognition and engagement programs, we make sure that all employees globally have the resources and support they need to be successful.
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Talent Operations Stats:

3,000+ full-time roles filled in 2015
134 employees in Talent Operations globally
629 Learning & Development sessions held in 2015
60+ new hires (on average) starting weekly across all global locations

Come Join the Home team!

As the largest and rapidly growing online-only retailer of home furnishings in the United States, and active efforts focused on international growth and success, Wayfair is the ideal place for ambitious campus talent to launch an exciting e-commerce career.

Who We Recruit

We aren’t just looking for the brightest, sharpest, most creative minds across multiple fields — we are looking for Co-ops, interns, and soon-to-be-graduating students who are passionate about innovating and defining a next generation home shopping experience for millions of consumers worldwide. Are you one?

We are seeking students in a variety of areas, with the most opportunities listed below:

  • Co-op: Creative, Operations, Marketing, Merchandising, Pricing, Data Science, Engineering
  • Undergraduate (FT / Intern): Business Intelligence / Analyst, Category Associate, Data Science, Pricing, Marketing, Operations, Site Merchandise, Inside Sales, Customer Service
  • Engineering (FT / Intern): Software Development, Infrastructure / Technology, Augmented Reality / UX, Data Science, Business Intelligence / Analyst
  • MBA (FT / Intern): Category Management, Finance, General Management, Marketing, Operations, Product Management

When and where we recruit

While our campus team is always looking for top campus talent, the best time to apply is during our core recruiting seasons during the Fall (Sept-Nov) and Winter (Jan-Mar), where most of our internship and post-grad opportunities are filled.

From an on-campus perspective, we participate in activities at a select number of schools each year. You may catch us on-campus attending career fairs, conducting on-campus interviews, hosting networking events, etc.

If we do not currently recruit on-campus at your school, be sure to check out our Campus Career page (you’re here) for the latest current openings and apply directly.

We typically recruit Co-op students for two cohorts during the year:

  • Winter cohort - recruiting September through November for January start
  • Summer cohort - recruiting February through April for July start

What you will do

You’ll hit the ground running at Wayfair - challenging problems and projects, real accountability, big impact.

We don’t believe in watered-downed onboarding periods nor do we believe in top-down management. We empower everyone — day one out of school — with the levers and decision-making authority to make an immediate impact on our business. We expect people to make mistakes and learn from them rapidly. We provide real-time mentorship in our open, collaborative work environment and also formal training with Wayfair University.

If you like transparency, friendliness, a relaxed but results-driven work environment filled with like-minded talent, Wayfair would like to hear from you.

What you can become

We are a meritocracy - your impact propels your development, growth, and career. We encourage people to take on more responsibility rapidly and try different roles. As a rapidly growing company you’ll have every opportunity to move your career in the direction your talents take you.