Who We Are: 

Omaze is a venture-backed startup with a mission of transforming lives through the power of storytelling and technology. Our for-profit platform offers people everywhere the chance to win a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Since our founding in 2012 in Los Angeles, California; Omaze has raised more than $100 million for over 350 charity partners. We’re growing our team of smart, dedicated, passionate people, and that’s where you come in! 

Who We're Seeking:

The Digital Merchandise Manager of Omaze Owned categories will play a central role on the team to help to craft the direction of the Omaze Owned e-commerce portfolio of incredible experiences. This person will help expand and drive current categories and identify and build new categories. While not exclusively, this role will be heavily focused on further developing and driving results for the Automotive vertical.

This role requires someone with a strong track record delivering sales growth in alignment with brand objectives, reflecting a deep knowledge of the customer, as well as competitive and global trends. This position requires someone who is creative, strategic, analytical and goal oriented. He/she must have proven track record of working cross-functionally and be able to bring organization and innovation to established and new processes. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• He/she will support the team across all elements of the go-to-market process including scheduling, inventory development and adhering to the milestone calendar
• Help develop the seasonal milestone calendar and set all cross-functional touch points

• Manage and track all pre-season campaigns and lead through a complete cross-functional hand-off (Marketing, Fulfillment, Operations)

• Track in-season campaigns to ensure we are tracking to KPI’s

• Own the completion and dissemination of seasonal campaign briefs and collaborate with the marketing and content teams to ensure messaging is clear and actionable

• Be an active participant in building seasonal campaign assortment plans based on unique, trend-right and high affinity experiences, driving growth and profitability

• Identify new ways to bring inventory to life and reach target consumers

• Participate/support as needed to gather consumer insights and use customer data to determine seasonal assortments and campaign strategies
• Stay informed on global automotive, consumer and business trends and tastes
• Continuously provide input and ideas and partner with the SVP to ensure the Omaze Owned strategy is on track to achieve targets

Our Ideal Candidate:

Following are critical for the ideal candidate to succeed in the role;

• Exhibit strong organizational skills and the ability to collaborate - building consensus and alignment across the organization
• Influence company processes and help build best practices that support all channels and functions
• Be goal oriented and financially minded
• Ability to work in ambiguity – be a self-starter
• Be an ambassador for Omaze Owned
• Take a consumer-first approach
• Approach problem solving with creativity and an open mind
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Be willing look for opportunities to learn and grow
• Be socially minded
• You take your work seriously but not yourself

Required Experience:

• At least 5 years working in strategic, business-minded environment
• Undergraduate college degree preferred
• Experience working in both an internal and external-facing capacity