Senior Product Manager, Warehouse Execution Systems (WES) & Material Handling

Stord is The Consumer Experience Company, powering seamless checkout through delivery for today's leading brands. Stord is rapidly growing and is on track to double our revenue in the next 18 months. To meet and exceed this target, Stord is strategically scaling teams across the entire company, and seeking energetic experts to help us achieve our mission. By combining comprehensive commerce-enablement technology with high-volume fulfillment services, Stord provides brands a platform to compete with retail giants. Stord manages over $10 billion of commerce annually through its fulfillment, warehousing, transportation, and operator-built software suite including OMS, Pre- and Post-Purchase, and WMS platforms. Stord is leveling the playing field for all brands to deliver the best consumer experience at scale. With Stord, brands can increase cart conversion, improve unit economics, and drive sustained customer loyalty. Stord’s end-to-end commerce solutions combine best-in-class omnichannel fulfillment and shipping with leading technology to ensure fast shipping, reliable delivery promises, easy access to more channels, and improved margins on every order. Hundreds of leading DTC and B2B companies like AG1, True Classic, Native, Seed Health, quip, goodr, Sundays for Dogs, and more trust Stord to deliver industry-leading consumer experiences on every order. Stord is headquartered in Atlanta with facilities across the United States, Canada, and Europe. Stord is backed by top-tier investors including Kleiner Perkins, Franklin Templeton, Founders Fund, Strike Capital, Baillie Gifford, and Salesforce Ventures. As a Ar. Product Manager at Stord, We're building a homegrown Warehouse Execution System (WES) — the orchestration layer that sits between our WMS (S1W) and the physical automation on our DC floors (goods-to-person, AS/RS, sortation, conveyor, robotics) — and decides, in real time, what work gets released, to whom, and in what order. This is not a vendor-integration role where you glue together AutoStore's API and call it done. You are building the brain that makes automation actually behave like it's part of one system, not five bolted-on ones. You'll also spend meaningful time supporting Stord's Innovation Lab, which means you're not just shipping roadmap items — you're running structured experiments on new material handling concepts, automation pilots, and "should we even build this" bets before they become roadmap items for everyone else. About the Role Stord's Distribution Centers are getting faster, denser, and more automated — and the software gap between "robots on the floor" and "orders out the door" is the single biggest lever we have left to pull. This role owns that gap.   We're building a homegrown Warehouse Execution System (WES) — the orchestration layer that sits between our WMS (S1W) and the physical automation on our DC floors (goods-to-person, AS/RS, sortation, conveyor, robotics) — and decides, in real time, what work gets released, to whom, and in what order. This is not a vendor-integration role where you glue together AutoStore's API and call it done. You are building the brain that makes automation actually behave like it's part of one system, not five bolted-on ones.   You'll also spend meaningful time supporting Stord's Innovation Lab , which means you're not just shipping roadmap items — you're running structured experiments on new material handling concepts, automation pilots, and "should we even build this" bets before they become roadmap items for everyone else.   This is a senior role with director-level scope : with possible direct reports in the future,  you will own strategy, architecture tradeoffs, and stakeholder alignment across Product, Engineering, Ops, and DC leadership with minimal hand-holding.  What You'll Own WES Product Strategy & Roadmap   Define and own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Stord's homegrown WES — including work release logic, task/order prioritization, labor-and-automation resource balancing, and exception handling. Own the build-vs-defer tradeoffs on WES scope — this system will not do everything on day one, and you're the one who says what's in v1 vs. v3.   Material Handling & Automation Orchestration   Design how WES coordinates across heterogeneous automation types — goods-to-person (AutoStore-class), AS/RS, conveyor/sortation, and robotics — even though we're building the orchestration layer ourselves rather than buying it. Partner with Engineering and Controls/Automation stakeholders to define the contracts (data, timing, failure modes) between WES and physical equipment, so this doesn't become a science project that only works in the demo warehouse. Build the operational logic for real-world failure conditions: equipment down, congestion spikes, mixed manual/automated backup flows. Automation vendors' brochures assume nothing ever breaks. You don't get that luxury. Design and own the plan for building a plug and play integration layer.   Innovation Lab Support   Scope, run, and evaluate structured pilots on new material handling and automation concepts before they get roadmap real estate. Build the "is this worth building" case — cost, throughput, labor impact, integration complexity — with enough rigor that a "no" is as valuable a deliverable as a "yes." Bridge Innovation Lab findings back into the core WES roadmap so pilots don't die in a folder no one opens again.   Cross-Functional & Stakeholder Leadership   Operate as the connective tissue between DC Operations, Engineering, Controls/Automation teams, and executive stakeholders — translating floor-level reality into product requirements and vice versa. Own metrics that tie WES performance to business outcomes: throughput, order cycle time, labor utilization, automation uptime, and exception rate — not vanity feature-shipped counts. Present roadmap, tradeoffs, and pilot outcomes to SLT with the clarity and