Director of Product, E-commerce

Who We Are  

Stylitics is the leading visual outfitting and styling solution for the world’s top retailers and brands. Our clients include Nike, Macy’s, Kohl’s, Revolve, Puma, Crate & Barrel, Bloomingdale’s, and dozens of others. Founded in 2011, Stylitics uses a powerful combination of algorithms, trend data, and stylist expertise to deliver millions of on-brand outfit recommendations daily across multiple channels such as e-commerce, email, advertising, stores, and social media. About 100 million shoppers use Stylitics content and technology on retail sites each month to find inspiration, discover new products and brands, and gain confidence in how to style their purchases.

About the Role

The Director of Product, E-Commerce sets the roadmap and strategy for how to best engage, convert, and retain shoppers using styling and bundling experiences online, and oversees all aspects of getting it built and deployed.

You will oversee our largest Solution Suite - E-commerce - currently deployed across 100M shoppers and 100+ major retailers, and work to optimize and improve what we have today using performance data, customer feedback, and best practices. Your focus in 2022 and 2023 will be to upgrade and roll-out our expansion and optimization initiatives in our Apparel and Home verticals - including major flagship features that drive loyalty and lifetime value of the customer. 

You will build and oversee a team of Product Managers and work in collaboration with UI/UX designers, Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Engineers, and Product Marketing to ensure that Product, Sales, and Client Success teams are equipped with insights that power differentiated and personalized products and quantify their impact for customers.

What You Will Do

• You will grow and manage our flagship product suite used by 98% of our customers. Your impact will be felt daily by thousands of employees and customers and millions of shoppers
• You will be a member of the company’s Leadership Team, helping to determine company-wide strategy and priorities
• What you build will drive not only product and business strategy for Stylitics, but also the strategies of 100+ of the world’s top brands and retailers
• You will get to drive the launch of new and innovative experiences that will rapidly become industry-standard
• If you do this well, you’ll likely be seen as an architect of the future of retail in the industry

Qualifications 

• Product Management Experience:
  
  • 7+ years of experience planning and deploying consumer-facing e-commerce and personalization products and programs for a major brand or retailer, or equivalent product leadership experience
  • Track record of successfully driving product strategy and execution for large, multi-product, multi-platform solution suites (vs. a single product or platform)
  • Advanced and current understanding of the workings and best practices UI/UX optimization (especially mobile), A/B test-driven decision-making, and digital commerce
  • Proven record of successful metric-driven product impact in close collaboration with an engineering team
  • Experience identifying the needs of customers and prospects and developing product roadmaps to  meet those needs
  • Proven record of translating needs and features into customer-facing messaging and positioning
• Project & Team Leadership Experience:
  
  • Very strong critical thinking and analysis skills. Ability to take an ambiguous problem, use data-informed brainstorming, identify goals and clear metrics, and drive a team to deliver on those goals
  • Comfort managing projects with a mix of direct reports and partners from other teams
  • A collaborative and collegial leadership style with a history of nurturing and growing talent
  • Strong verbal/written communication & presentation skills
  • An exceptional ability to ask the right questions and spot issues when looking at data or insights
• E-commerce Experience:
  • Extensive experience in fashion, softlines, and hardlines online retail, understanding what makes retailers successful on the web and how that success is measured in the form of funnels, conversion, AOV, and UPT
  • Expert-level understanding of what retail merchandising teams care about and what their challenges and roadblocks are today
  • Current and detailed knowledge of how ecommerce websites operate, what technologies are normally used, and what product trends are emerging in these areas
  • Comfort and experience presenting to and working with senior executives at large retailers and brands, as a subject-matter expert

Salary

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