Design Manager, Merchandising and Creative

About Weee!

Weee! is the largest and fastest-growing ethnic e-grocer in the United States, operating in one of the largest underserved categories in retail with affordable access to exciting ethnic food. By partnering with local suppliers, redesigning the value chain and leveraging social buying, Weee! is reshaping the grocery business entirely. You can read more about us on Business Insider, Reuters and TechCrunch.

Weee! is headquartered in Fremont, CA, and is currently available coast to coast with exceptional growth (5x YoY) across geographies, categories and ethnicities. We have raised $800M+ in funding to date from leading investors including Softbank Vision Funds, DST, Blackstone, Tiger Global, Lightspeed Ventures, Goodwater Capital, XVC and iFly. The opportunity now is to join a rocketship as we prepare for the next stage of growth, and an eventual public listing.

This role is onsite 5 days a week 

About the Role

As the Design Manager, Creative & Merchandising, you'll join the fastest-growing Asian e-grocer in the market, positioned for remarkable growth. This pivotal role will lead and transform our creative and communication design teams, driving design across merchandising, communication, and creative domains that powers our market expansion. You'll be a core contributor to our design ecosystem, with the opportunity to directly shape our brand's visual identity and strategic creative direction and grow with our team.

Responsibilities

1. Team Leadership: Build, mentor, and develop an impactful creative design team spanning merchandising and communication design disciplines to work within our products.
2. Design Strategy:
• Develop and implement design strategies aligned with brand and merchandising objectives
• Establish and evolve creative design systems ensuring visual consistency and brand integrity
• Create innovative design approaches for creative campaigns and merchandising materials
3. Creative Execution:
• Direct the creation of visually excellent and compelling merchandising campaigns and art direction
• Ability to work in fast paced environments with long term thinking
• Oversee design production from operations to conceptualization to final implementation
• Deliver consistently high-quality, engaging design outcomes across multiple languages that drive brand engagement and business goals
4. Cross-Functional Collaboration:
• Partner with marketing, product, and brand teams to align creative strategies
• Facilitate seamless communication and workflow between design and other departments
• Represent design perspective in strategic business discussions
5. Team and Capability Development:
• Recruit top design talent
• Implement professional and creative development programs
• Nurture a culture of continuous learning and creative excellence

Qualifications

1. 8+ years design experience, with 3+ years in a design leadership role
2. Proven track record managing merchandising and communication design teams within ecommerce businesses
3. Expert proficiency in design tools (Adobe Creative Suite, Figma)
4. Expert proficiency in presentations and narrating longer term visions of strategy and team workflow
5. Strong portfolio demonstrating strategic design leadership and creative excellence
6. Proficiency in designing for multilingual or multicultural markets is a plus. Experience creating design assets that resonate across different language and cultural contexts would be highly valued.
7. Exceptional communication and team development skills
8. Understanding of brand and product design systems and their relationship with brand consistency

Desired Qualites

• Ability to make core decisions and contribute to our company platform
• Drive to help and be self driven to build the team you believe in
• Growth mindset
• Systematic problem-solver
• Strategic