Jim Miller. image: Wayfair

E-commerce company Wayfair has announced the appointment of Jim Miller, its interim Chief Technology Officer (CTO), as the company’s permanent CTO. Miller is permanently taking up the CTO role after serving as interim for eight months, having taken up the position in August of 2019 but with a plan to occupy the role while the company sought a permanent replacement. Apparently, Wayfair settled on Miller being its permanent CTO.

In Miller lies an experienced executive that has held leadership roles at companies including Google, Cisco, and Amazon. At Google, he served as Vice President of Worldwide Operations from June 2010 until February 2018. Before Google, he served as a senior executive at Cisco for seven years. Before Cisco, he served as Vice President of Supply Chain at Amazon. Miller was actually a board member at Wayfair before he took on the position of interim CTO. With his permanent appointment, however, he’s stepping down from the company’s board after four years.

As Wayfair’s CTO, Miller will continue to lead the company’s product and engineering efforts at-large. “..I could not be more excited to officially take on the CTO role and partner with Niraj [Wayfair’s CEO], Steve [Wayfair’s co-chairman] and the entire Wayfair team to help lead us through this incredible journey and the vast growth opportunity ahead,” he touted in a press statement.