Benjamin Legesse Email & Phone Number

Olathe, Kansas, United States

Senior Product Manager responsible for building out tooling that supports the entire patient life cycle with developmental therapists.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞 Senior Product Manager for Product Content Systems (~6 months)𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬• Lead 3 teams responsible for the product class standards, taxonomy and descriptive data• Develop product strategy for long term technical transformation• Cross functional decoupling strategy & alignment• Stakeholder management of merchandising business leadership𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬• Rolled out new backend system for serving descriptive content to sites ensuring fresh data (went from days to minutes) to customers & reducing costs ($100k+ a year)• Decoupled several frontend interfaces used by suppliers/vendors to edit descriptive content improving data integrity of the catalog• Built backend service to automate answering of descriptive data during the supplier/vendor facing product addition workflow improving user experience𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞Senior Product Manager for Catalog Manipulation Services (~1 year)𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬• Long term product strategy for building backend orchestration layer responsible for catalog management• Stakeholder management for catalog product addition business leadership• Cross functional collaboration to streamline product addition𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬• Optimized backend product addition orchestration layer reducing P99 processing time from 24+ hrs to < 3 hrs• Built and rolled out product editing orchestration layer enabling API integration team to roll out romance copy & feature bullet edits to external 3rd party PIMs• Set up foundational analytics capabilities & rolled out detailed reporting for backend product addition orchestration layer, providing visibility to stakeholders, and enabling improvement in data accuracy e.g. quality of product collection data went from ~60% to 100%• During RTO founded & led social committee for the catalog department resulting in monthly events such as pot lucks, paint nights, karaoke etc., and set up regular biweekly social hour

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞 Product Manager for Catalog Manipulation Services and Catalog Gateway Management (~2 years and 4 months)𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬• Product strategy for two teams: (1) focused on modernizing backend processes to ingest new product data and (2) focused on building out development ops tooling, capabilities & guidelines for the catalog department• Stakeholder management for catalog product addition business leadership and for technical leaders across catalog, media, and pricing departments• Cross functional work to establish best tech practices & standards, as well as building POCs for company efforts to adopt federated GQL𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬• Led the re-write of backend product ingestion pipeline and successful rolled out to all supplier/vendor addition flows resulting in reducing processing times (from 24 hrs down to 10 minutes at P95)• Collaborated with cross functional partners to automate manual workflows within product addition space reducing operational costs by ~$150k+ a year• Built & launched proof of concept java sidecar pattern of development that added minimal latency (<5ms at P95) enabling non-java services integrate with Federated GQL ecosystem without requiring re-write• Created an automated platform for load testing enabling engineering teams to provision resources in minutes vs days, leading to 77x increase in utilization of load testing platform when deploying to services• Set up & launched a product obfuscation layer between catalog data & customer facing site enabling the launch of services that provide product detail data to customers

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞 Jr Product Manager for Catalog Creation team𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬• Product strategy for enhancing supplier/vendor facing product addition workflow• Modernizing the backend systems to improve stability & reliability• Managing relationship with external 3rd party PIMs used by supplier/vendors• Product analysis & reporting for catalog management workflows𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬• Built and rolled out external API for editing shipping data reducing time it took for changes to apply in workflow from 40 hours to ~8.7 seconds• Expanded capability of product addition by leading design, building, & execution resulting in suppliers/vendors being able adding configurable products (e.g. products varying on things like color and size) as well as Prop 65 compliance data• Led efforts with catalog data science team to build, train & integrate a classification model that identified product category for new products simplifying effort for suppliers & vendors and reducing incorrect classification by users by over 40%• Onboarded and integrated several external PIM solutions to Wayfair’s FTP for catalog management resulting in hundreds of suppliers/vendors being able to add their products directly from their PIM • Upon identifying a subset of product addition submissions taking longer than normal to make it site, suggested a solution of moving a manual portion of the workflow upstream, and built the technical capabilities for making it happen resulting in 50% reduction in time to site (from 56 hours to 27 hours).

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞Jr. Product Manager for Catalog Product Addition Systems (~10 months)𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬• Establishing product requirements for new features & leading execution• Analyzing product addition systems & building reports• Triaging incoming bug & feature requests• QAing code changes to make sure they met requirements & didn’t cause regressions𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬• Analyzed the full end to end use of all supplier/vendor provided data to streamline requirements, leading to ~60% reduction in the number of questions asked during product addition without losing catalog quality• Built out & maintained a detailed test suite for the bulk product addition tool that was used as criteria for the tool’s rollout & subsequently for new feature development• Led the testing of the new bulk product addition tool during its roll out to suppliers/vendors and worked with engineering to fix any post release bugs• Established the feature requirements needed in the bulk product addition tool to enable the deprecation of the legacy single product addition tool𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞 Jr. Product Manager for Catalog Carton Systems (~3 months)𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬• Triaging incoming bug & feature requests• Analyzing raw product carton & shipping method data to improve systems• Establishing product requirements for new features• QAing code changes to make sure they met requirements & didn’t cause regressions𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬• Used statistical analysis on existing data in the catalog to implement granular product type specific thresholds for detecting bad carton dimensions improving the overall health of the catalog’s product carton data

Bachelor'S Degree, Applied Mathematics

High School Diploma