E-commerce Merchandiser

Summary

Join Paperless Post as a part-time e-commerce merchandiser to manage the company's online Party Shop. You will oversee daily operations, manage product libraries, launch seasonal products, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. This role requires 3-5 years of e-commerce experience, Shopify expertise, and strong analytical and communication skills. The position is based in NYC but offers remote or hybrid options. The compensation is $30-40/hr for up to 20 hours per week. Paperless Post offers a supportive and inclusive work environment.

Requirements

• Be available to work 20 hours a week within standard business hours (9am-5pm ET), Monday-Thursday
• Have 3-5 years of experience in E-Commerce based businesses with an emphasis on site merchandising
• Have Shopify experience
• Possess strong analytical/data-driven mindset
• Possess excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to multitask
• Possess strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills

Responsibilities

• Provide end-to-end oversight of Party Shop’s day-to-day operations, from on-site merchandising through product library management and reporting
• Maintain product library including personalized products, offboarding unproductive skus, and adding new seasonal products
• Ensure all products are tagged accurately and flow into the correct category pages
• Drive assortment strategy and product selection for new and existing partners, and seasonal efforts, in partnership with Director
• Merchandise categories to align with sales performance, marketing efforts, product launches and promotions; plan and carry out seasonal updates and promotions in conjunction with marketing efforts
• Execute updates to navigation, filters, product recommendations and other category adjustments
• Maintain website functionality; responsible for executing and QA-ing content updates (homepage, landing pages, etc) to the website
• Daily review of all orders in all systems to troubleshoot any issues or delays
• Manage day-to-day vendor communication
• Work closely with CustOps to resolve any order or vendor issues
• Any vendor outreach and onboarding in partnership with Director
• In partnership with marketing, own all seasonal and holiday on-site strategies
• Develop and execute seasonal merchandising campaigns
• Develop and share out all seasonal briefs; maintain all shared seasonal calendars
• Act as point of contact in Asana for all Party Shop updates and marketing coordination
• Keep all cross-functional merchandising calendars and cross-functional tools up-to-date and manage communication across teams as it relates to Party Shop
• Manage contractors if/as needed (design, engineering)
• Own any special projects related to Party Shop on an as-needed basis
• Monitoring of performance and adjusting merch strategy to accommodate opportunities
• Weekly high-level reporting
• Ad-hoc reports for any sales, product drops, initiatives etc
• Seek opportunities to grow the online business

Preferred Qualifications

• Possess some technical skills (HTML, CSS)
• Have prior experience using Asana

Benefits

Fully paid medical, dental, and vision benefits (for full-time employees)