Category Manager for Office Home Print products driving business growth strategies and collaborating with internal teams. Managing product lines and analyzing KPIs for sales performance improvements.
About the role
- Category Manager responsible for launching and scaling product categories for Whatnot in Australia. Focused on community building and data-driven strategies for growth.
Responsibilities
- Launch and own a category in Australia
- Strategize the best ways to scale your efforts to make our first category successful
- Partner with GM, Australia on determining which category to launch next
- Build relationships with influencers, planning and executing activations to bring their audiences onto Whatnot
- Organize and execute on-app and in person events connected to the most exciting products, moments, and fandoms related to your category
- Develop a robust pipeline of sellers, including resellers, influencers, and shops
- Identify and bring on board high-potential sellers managing ongoing relationships and day-to-day communications
- Advise sellers on ways to grow their businesses on Whatnot. Create the next generation of top sellers in Australia
- Stay close to sellers and buyers in the ecosystem to understand user needs and provide the product team with key user insights and problems to solve.
- Analyze and leverage data to develop actionable strategies, measure impact, and drive growth in your category and across Australia
- Be able to jump in, ramp up quickly, and independently drive strategic projects both in your own category and across partnerships when needed.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience working in a fast-paced, client-facing role in high output environments, such as Strategy Consulting, Private Equity, or partnerships at a fast-paced tech company
- Experience working in a business development or partner-facing role
- You have experience building and executing against a pipeline of targets
- You are scrappy and flexible enough to work in a fast-paced startup environment with limited guidance, and are comfortable pivoting quickly as needed
- You are a strategic and creative thinker who can turn research and data into actionable plans
- Passion for creator communities and/or expertise in existing Whatnot product categories (e.g. vintage clothing, collectibles)
- Experience at a high-growth startup, marketplace, or creator-focused platform a plus
- Proficiency in SQL a plus
- Experience buying and selling in online marketplaces a plus
Benefits
- Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
- Comprehensive Health Insurance for you and your dependents
- Work From Home Support
- Home Office allowance
- Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
- Care benefits
- Monthly allowance on for wellness
- Annual allowance towards Childcare
- Lifetime allowance for family planning (i.e. adoption or fertility expenses to name a few!)
- Superannuation contributions are made in accordance with local compliance requirements to support your retirement savings.
- Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
- Parental Leave
- Whatnot provides 16 weeks of paid parental leave along with an optional one-month gradual return-to-work program (optional Company leave allowances run concurrently with any government leave programs you may be eligible for. If you are eligible for additional time through a government program, we will honor that time.
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