Brand Merchandising Manager

The Marketplace Growth Manager, Merchandising is a newly created role central to driving visibility, engagement, and growth across all sides of impact.com's Marketplace. This role owns the merchandising strategy for brands, products, publishers, and creators, curating, positioning, and promoting the right partners to the right audiences at the right time. The ideal candidate brings a creative eye, a data-driven mindset, and a relentless focus on reducing manual work through AI-powered tools, automation, and scalable systems. This position reports to the Sr. Director, Marketplace Growth.

Responsibilities

Own merchandising end-to-end across brands, products, publishers, and creators, developing and executing strategies to curate, position, and promote all partner types across the Marketplace; Build and manage editorial calendars for in-app placements, featured lists, mailers, and notification prompts; Lead automation and scaling of merchandising operations by building dynamic, auto-updating partner lists, automated workflows, and AI-powered merchandising programs; Leverage AI tools across content creation, partner list curation, audience segmentation, and performance reporting; Partner cross-functionally with Product, Data Science, Engineering, and Operations to reduce manual lift in merchandising workflows; Curate high-fit, audience-aligned partner lists supporting recruitment, activation, and program growth; Identify and act on merchandising signals from partner performance data, browsing behavior, and partnership trends; Design and run A/B tests on messaging, creative formats, placement types, and audience targeting; Become deeply familiar with impact.com's product offering and translate it into merchandising strategies; Set goals and be held accountable to metrics including partner discoverability rate, selection rate, merchandising-influenced GTV, activation lift, automation coverage, and manual effort reduction; Communicate findings and recommendations to leadership and stakeholders with clarity and confidence

Requirements

A minimum of 3 years of experience in a growth, merchandising, editorial marketing, or partnerships role within a marketplace, e-commerce, or SaaS environment; Hands-on experience with AI tools and automation platforms to build scalable workflows and personalized communications; Proficiency in data analysis, including interpreting merchandising metrics, identifying trends, and translating insights into action; Experience designing and executing merchandising initiatives (in-app, email, notifications); Strong understanding of marketplace dynamics and two-sided or multi-sided platform ecosystems; Comfort with A/B testing and iterative experimentation; Strong written communication skills, able to craft clear, engaging, and brand-appropriate copy for lifecycle touchpoints; Ability to work cross-functionally and present insights effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders; Familiarity with team management and collaboration tools (Google Workspace, Confluence, Jira, Slack); Willingness to learn and adapt quickly in a fast-paced, evolving environment; Bachelor's degree

Benefits

Responsible PTO policy; Up to 12 fully covered therapy/coaching sessions per year with additional dependent coverage; Monthly gym reimbursement; Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) with a 3-year vesting schedule, pending Board approval; Free Coursera subscription and PXA courses; Parental leave of 26 weeks fully paid for the primary caregiver and 13 weeks fully paid for the secondary caregiver; Technology stipend for home office setup; Monthly internet allowance