Wonder

Product Manager, Kitchen Sequencing + Optimization

Wonder$193K — $203K *
Food & Beverages
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of product ownership experience
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Experience with data science and machine learning projects
  • Familiarity with operations research techniques
  • Experience in logistics or supply chain concepts
  • Strong leadership and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

  • Manage executive-level stakeholder relationships across the organization
  • Develop and execute product strategy and roadmap for kitchen optimization
  • Prioritize development and measure the impact of product features
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to enhance sequencing algorithms
  • Translate product requirements into actionable JIRA tickets
  • Partner with a data analyst to track feature rollouts and define KPIs
  • Lead agile scrum rituals such as sprint planning and daily standups

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package including equity
  • 401(k) plan
  • Choice of medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Company-paid short and long-term disability coverage
  • Flexible paid time off for exempt employees
  • Paid parental leave
  • Discounted meals and exclusive perks across the Wonder family of brands
Full Job Description
The Impact You Will Make
  • High visibility area necessitating Executive level stakeholder management, must be able to communicate effectively to all levels of the organization
  • Develop and execute the product strategy, roadmap, and vision for sequencing, a kitchen optimization product line
  • Owns the product features for sequencing (a kitchen optimization product line), including defining the scope, prioritizing development, and measuring impact
  • Work closely with Kitchen Display Team to influence features that may drive better adherence from teams in the field and improve predictability to improve the inputs to improve the output. Bring in signals that our sequencing system needs (but doesn't have), reduce variability or accuracy of the signals it currently has to improve its ability to accurately forecast the kitchen.
  • Develops a deep understanding of the trade-offs between competing KPIs (e.g., expo sit time, throughput, and customer promise time) to propose solutions and roadmap initiatives that explicitly consider the optimal frontier
  • Collaborates with engineers and operations researchers to build and improve existing sequencing algorithms, simulator capabilities, and data pipelines
  • Translates product requirements and bugs into JIRA tickets and collaborates with our engineers to build and deploy new features
  • Partners closely with a dedicated data analyst to track the success of feature rollouts, conduct ad hoc analyses to uncover new opportunities, and establish clear KPIs for all initiatives
  • Strategic Finance Experience: someone to support business cases, financial analysis to connect Operational KPIs to business impact and support tradeoff decision making
  • Ensures clear communication of sequencing changes to Operations and in-field teams, and collaborates with them to define new processes and ensure adherence
  • Develops a strong grasp of the operational landscape and competitive solutions in kitchen automation and logistics
  • Work closely with operations to help improve courier hand-off time at the front of house
  • Leads the team in agile scrum rituals like sprint planning, daily standups, and backlog grooming


What You Bring to the Table
  • The ideal candidate has experience building quality user experiences from the ground up, preferably in a supply chain, logistics, or robotics-integrated environment. Has an inventive and creative "do-what-it-takes" spirit, demonstrates a bias for action, and the ability to make progress with limited resources. This position requires someone with a solid technical background and an ability to partner cross-functionally. As a startup in hyper-growth, experience operating and thriving in small, fast-paced environments will set you up for success, allowing you to be comfortable in our hands-on environment where change is the only constant.
  • Minimum of 5+ years of product ownership experience
  • Strong quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills
  • Must have experience working with data science project and ML projects/ products (optimizations)
  • Experience with operations research techniques and simulations is a plus
  • Experience with logistics, ETA, Kitchen or supply chain concepts a plus
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
  • Self-starter, ability to work autonomously
  • Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams and influence stakeholders at all levels including surfacing up tradeoffs between teams and to drive consensus
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities
  • Constant attention to detail
  • SQL, Python skills a plus


Our hybrid model requires 3 days a week in the office. That said, many team members choose to come in more often to take advantage of in-person collaboration and connection. You're welcome-and encouraged-to be in the office up to 5 days a week if it works for you.

NYC Base Salary: $193,500-$203,000 per year.

Wonder uses geographic-specific salary structures, which means the salary offered may vary depending on where the job is located. The final salary offer will take into account various factors, such as the candidate's skills, education, training, credentials, and experience.

Benefits

The benefits applicable to this role include a competitive compensation package with equity and a 401(k). We also offer a choice of medical, dental, and vision plans, company paid short and long term disability coverage, paid time off including flexible time off for exempt employees, paid vacation for non-exempt employees, and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable law in addition to paid parental leave, discounted meals and exclusive perks across the Wonder family of brands.

Eligibility, effective dates, and available plan options vary by employment classification and location. To learn more about benefits for this role, visit our Careers page here.

We look forward to hearing from you! We'll contact you via email or text to schedule interviews and share information about your candidacy.

About Wonder

World of Wonder Productions is an American production company founded in 1991 by filmmakers Randy Barbato and Portsmouth-born Fenton Bailey. Based in Los Angeles, California, the company specializes in documentary television and film productions, with credits including the Million Dollar Listing docuseries, RuPaul's Drag Race, and the documentary films Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures and The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Together, Bailey and Barbato have produced programming through World of Wonder for HBO, Bravo, HGTV, Showtime, the BBC, Netflix, and VH1. World of Wonder is perhaps best known for its contributions towards LGBTQ programming, for which they won an Outfest Annual Achievement Award in 2011. Their most well known LGBTQ production is RuPaul's Drag Race, having managed the career of drag queen and titular host RuPaul for many years before this, eventually producing the franchise alongside the majority of its live shows, podcasts, television specials, and conventions.
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