School of Hiring

Füsun (Bakioğlu) Wehrmann, Head of Global Transportation Engineering and Product at Wayfair Speaks About Scaling, Diversity and Lessons in Recruitment

September 26, 2021 School of Hiring Season 2 Episode 1
School of Hiring
Füsun (Bakioğlu) Wehrmann, Head of Global Transportation Engineering and Product at Wayfair Speaks About Scaling, Diversity and Lessons in Recruitment
Show Notes

Füsun is a customer and technology obsessed executive leader. She is an engineer at heart with experience in global product development, digital services, scaling and optimising organisations which offer digital solutions. Among her past employers she can count Microsoft, XING, OLX and Axel Springer where she held positions of VP Engineering, Director of Engineering and CTO among others.

Currently Füsun is Head of Global Transportation Engineering and Product at Wayfair.

'Think big, learn by incremental change' is her style. She love's turning organisational and product development challenges into opportunities of success.

She advocates agile and lean processes in organisations supporting diversity, mastery in technology, innovation and continuous improvement. To her the success of today's businesses and the secret potion for high performing happy teams is based on effective hiring, understanding the users and executing in the flat management hierarchies.

Throughout her career, Füsun has hired and onboarded 100's of engineering and product professionals. She has learned some great lessons, as well as at her own admittance made her fair share of mistakes,  which she is sharing in this podcast with the School of Hiring's Konstanty Sliwowski.

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