Head of Merchandising

Tradesy is a peer-to-peer marketplace for buying and selling luxury fashion, enabling stylish customers to unlock the value in their closet to access affordable luxury. Our mission is to make fashion resale as simple, safe and stylish as retail- at scale. We have millions of passionate members, a product that people love, strong values centered around sustainability and equality, and a team culture that truly supports you- while giving you the freedom to work from wherever you are.

Tradesy is looking for an experienced merchandiser with a deep understanding of fashion and luxury to lead our merchandising function. This role will partner closely with product, design, and marketing to refine our customer experience and create a best-in-class luxury shopping experience. In addition, you’ll become the internal expert on supply and demand, own supply reporting and forecasting, and inform marketing strategy.

Since we’re a peer-to-peer marketplace, we face unique challenges around user generated content, pricing, and inventory breadth. As Head of Merchandising at Tradesy, you’ll build and lead a team to tackle these problems by augmenting listings with tags, pricing data, and expert content, while partnering with engineers and data scientists to create training data for algorithms, and automate manual tasks.

The ideal candidate for this position is data-driven, but understands consumer behavior in luxury. You excel at creating reports and forecasts and managing people and projects, but you also have a passion for fashion and luxury products. If you love luxury and know how to drive demand for aspirational inventory, but also geek out over pricing, tagging, and taxonomy, then this role is perfect for you.

This role will report to the Chief Product Officer, and will build and manage a cross-functional team of luxury fashion experts.

You will:

• Develop and own the overall merchandising strategy for Tradesy including supply forecasting, on-site merchandising, and reporting.
• Hire and lead a team of merchandisers to classify, tag, price, and enhance user-generated listings. Develop processes & tools to optimize and automate manual work.
• Work closely with product, design, and technical teams to optimize our taxonomy, navigation, search results, category page rankings, recommendations, and overall shopping experience.
• Use internal and external data to quantify supply and demand, and inform marketing strategy and supply acquisition.
• Partner with marketing to identify promotional opportunities, support content creation, and ensure consistency between brand strategy and on-site merchandising.
• Work with marketing and business development teams to identify supply opportunities and drive supply acquisition.

You have:

• 10+ years in merchandising or buying for fashion ecommerce.
• 5+ years of management experience, and the ability to manage with metrics.
• Deep and broad knowledge of fashion and luxury brands and products.
• Strong analytical and forecasting skills.
• Experience working with product and technical teams to develop and improve tooling and optimize user experience.
• Understanding of taxonomy and metadata.
• Experience in luxury is preferred.

Compensation and benefits:

• Competitive salary -Commensurate with skill set, experience and the position. What you made at your last job should not dictate your worth. Tradesy is committed to a basic living wage threshold and holds its own $50k minimum wage standard for entry level positions.

• True opportunity for growth - we don’t believe in time served or waiting for your manager to get promoted or leave
  
  Carve out your own path, at your pace - there’s room at the top for all of us.
• Comprehensive health benefits - several options for company paid medical, dental, prescription drug and vision plans
  
  Tradesy pays 100% of the premiums for individuals - great discounts if you want to add spouse/children/families
• Wealth benefits - 401k option and equity (stock options) because every employee should be an owner

• Flexible paid time off - we coordinate with each other to make sure work and play find a healthy balance

• Celebrate Diversity Paid Holiday Program - a combination of set and floating Company Holidays - so you can choose the days most meaningful to you
  designated paid time off to serve (jury duty) and VOTE as well!
• Mentorship opportunities - grow within your field, gain valuable skills and experience in a new one or become a change agent for those around you - all on company time

• Paid Parental Leave - for moms, dads and everything in between

Additional perks:

• Remote-friendly office - Work from the place that best works for you
   
• Flexible working hours - night owl? Got kids/pets/family obligations? We value your output, not the clock
   
• Virtual company-wide happy hours, product demos, support groups and team events. Philanthropy and community outreach too - we are constantly finding news ways to stay meaningfully connected in this virtual world
   
• Monthly technology reimbursement - $100 per month (tax free!) to help you stay connected