VP of Product

Description:

VP of Product – BuyWander

Build the Most Fun Way to Shop on the Internet

Location: Seattle, WA
Type: Full-Time | Executive
Compensation: Competitive Salary $175-275K includes Meaningful Equity + Performance Bonuses

ABOUT BUYWANDER

BuyWander is rebuilding the $850B retail returns industry—and turning it into something people actually love.

We take returned goods and transform them into a fast, fun, treasure-hunt shopping experience powered by AI and local pickup.

Think:

• Entertainment meets eCommerce
• Treasure hunting meets Black Friday
• Community meets opportunity

We’re not just building a marketplace.
We’re building a daily habit.

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THE ROLE

We’re hiring our first Head of Product.

This is a rare opportunity to:

• Define an entirely new shopping experience
• Build a product from 0 to 1 to scale
• Turn buying returns into something addictive, trusted, community

powered and super fast

You’ll be creating it from scratch—with real users, real constraints, and real momentum.

We’re looking for someone who is:

• Customer-obsessed
• Highly analytical
• AI-forward
• A product “mad scientist”
• A builder who ships fast

If you want to build something people love and use daily—keep reading.

WHAT YOU’LL OWN

The Core Product Experience:

• Research, Develop, Design and Evolve the end-to-end journey: discovery to bidding to winning to pickup
• Make it fun, fast, and frictionless
• Turn shopping into something people come back to daily

Treasure Hunt Magic

• Build features that create excitement, urgency, and surprise
• Balance randomness with trust (people need to feel they can win)
• Make every session feel like there’s something to discover

Trust & Reliability:

• Ensure customers feel confident in what they’re buying
• Improve transparency, quality signals, and consistency
• Build a platform people rely on—not just try once

Speed & Simplicity:

• Reduce friction across the entire experience
• Optimize for fast browsing, fast bidding, fast pickup
• Ruthlessly eliminate anything that slows users down

Data-Driven Product Engine:

• Instrument everything—funnels, cohorts, behaviors
• Use data to identify drop-offs, opportunities, and wins
• Run continuous experiments to improve conversion and retention

AI-Powered Product Innovation:

• Leverage AI to improve discovery, pricing, personalization, and operations
• Build systems where AI enhances both user experience and internal efficiency
• Think beyond features—design intelligent systems

0 to 1 to Scale:

• Ship quickly, learn quickly, iterate constantly
• Build the product foundation that can scale nationally
• Eventually build and lead a high-performance product + design team

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WHY THIS ROLE IS DIFFERENT

Most Head of Product roles:

• Inherit roadmaps
• Manage backlogs
• Optimize existing features

This role:

• Defines the product from the ground up
• Blends entertainment, commerce, and community into something new
• Has real equity upside tied to success

You’ll work directly with founders to shape the future of BuyWander.

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GROWTH & UPSIDE

• Build and lead the full product organization
• Define a new category of “entertainment shopping”
• Equity in a company attacking a massive market
• Create a product that people love, not just use

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WHY BUYWANDER

• Massive market + broken status quo
• High-speed, high-ownership environment
• Mission-driven: helping people get ahead
• A team building something fun, real, and meaningful

Requirements:

WHAT YOU BRING

• 5–10+ years in product management, with ownership of core product areas
• Proven track record of building and scaling consumer products or marketplaces
• Strong analytical mindset—you think in funnels, retention, and behavior
• Experience turning insights into shipped product improvements
• Comfort operating in ambiguity with speed and ownership
• Bias toward action—you ship, learn, and improve

BONUS POINTS

• Experience in marketplaces, auctions, gaming, or social products
• Built addictive, habit-forming consumer experiences
• Strong understanding of trust & safety in marketplaces
• Experience leveraging AI in product development

WHO YOU ARE

• Customer-obsessed: You deeply understand user behavior and motivations
• Analytical thinker: You use data to drive decisions, not just validate them
• AI-forward: You’re already thinking about how AI reshapes product experiences
• Mad scientist: You love testing bold ideas and discovering what works
• Builder: You thrive in 0 to 1 environments
• Owner: You take responsibility for outcomes, not just features

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COMPANY BENEFITS

• Competitive Salary and Performance-based Bonuses
• Meaningful equity in a company attacking a massive market, for a

brand that can become nationally recognized

• Health, Vision & Dental Insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• Annual Company Offsites
• 401K

If you want to build the most fun way to shop—and redefine what eCommerce feels like—let’s talk.

BuyWander is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We make employment decisions based on qualifications, skills, merit, and business needs. We believe a range of skills, perspectives, and experiences strengthens our team and supports better outcomes for our employees and customers.