Manager, Branded Merchandise

New York City, NY (Unknown)

$100K/yr – $130K/yrManager4+ years expFull time

Posted 2 days ago

Job Summary

Own and drive the free gift program from concept to execution, shaping new gift concepts, coordinating cross‑functional teams, and delivering campaigns, landing pages, and performance metrics.

  • Lead cross-functional program management and timeline alignment.
  • Optimize performance through data, testing, and channel strategy with growth.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Identifying and evaluating new gift concepts and categories, staying ahead of trends in product, design, and pop culture, and working with brand partners, to keep our offers feeling fresh and compelling.
  • Working closely with our Operations team on project management for various sourcing tasks, including negotiating terms, maintaining quality standards, and building a reliable pipeline of merch.
  • Owning project management across the program, keeping cross-functional workstreams on track, stakeholders aligned, and timelines on target.
  • Determining order quantities based on historical opt-in rates, survey data, and more.
  • Setting and tracking performance goals for the free gift program, including conversion rates and cost per acquisition.
  • Collaborating closely with Creative, Member Experience, Product, and Engineering teams to develop the campaigns, landing pages, and messaging that bring each gift offer to life.
  • Partnering with the broader growth team on channel strategy to determine how and where free gift offers are promoted across paid and owned media.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in marketing, merchandising, project management, or growth.
  • Strong communicator and cross-functional collaborator with the ability to align internal teams around a vision and build strong relationships externally.
  • Creative eye for product and design with strong taste and instincts for what will resonate with our audience.
  • Analytical and data-driven, with the ability to interpret performance data and act on it.
  • Ability to perform in a highly iterative and dynamic work environment, managing multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
  • A self-starter with a track record of taking ownership and driving projects from strategy to execution.
  • High standards for quality and attention to detail.
  • A love of reading and contemporary fiction.

Preferred

  • Experience with merchandise development, product sourcing, or retail is strongly preferred.
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Our mission is to bring the best new fiction forward. Celebrating and championing emerging authors and the distinctively fresh work they are uniquely capable of writing. Providing our readers with books they might not have found elsewhere. Since our founding in 1926, we’ve chosen many unknown books that later became iconic works of American fiction.Want to join the club? We’re always looking to hire new teammates, so check out our job posting.

Founded in 1926
New York, New York, USA
67 employees (33 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$100K/yr – $130K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
26 (39% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
2.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
673.7K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$7.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
31%
Direct
59.5%
Referral
4%
Social
5%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~67

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Manager, Branded Merchandise

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