E-commerce Merchandising Manager

Torrance, CA (Unknown)

$110K/yr – $130K/yrMid Level4+ years exp

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and optimize the site merchandising engine for Shopify Plus to drive discovery, conversion, and AOV, focusing on cross-sell, bundles, and guided product journeys.

  • Merchandising strategy: align rules with intent, education, inventory, margins, and promos.
  • Conversion and revenue focus: remove friction, improve CVR, AOV, RPV, and UPO through tests and content improvements.
  • Cross-sell, kits, and onboarding journeys: create scalable frameworks guiding customers between related products and solutions.

Job Description

Own and optimize the site merchandising engine for Shopify Plus to drive discovery, conversion, and AOV, focusing on cross-sell, bundles, and guided product journeys.

  • Merchandising strategy: align rules with intent, education, inventory, margins, and promos.
  • Conversion and revenue focus: remove friction, improve CVR, AOV, RPV, and UPO through tests and content improvements.
  • Cross-sell, kits, and onboarding journeys: create scalable frameworks guiding customers between related products and solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Own the merchandising strategy for our Shopify Plus website, with a focus on improving product discovery, conversion, cross-sell, AOV, RPV, and UPO
  • Build and maintain merchandising rules that support customer intent, product education, inventory priorities, margin goals, and promotional strategy.
  • Identify friction points in the shopping journey and prioritize site improvements that increase conversion rate and revenue per visitor.
  • Ensure products are presented in a way that clearly communicates use case, benefits, compatibility, application, and value.
  • Own the strategy for cross-sell, upsell, kits, and bundles across the website.
  • Develop scalable frameworks to guide customers between related products, categories, routines, and solutions.
  • Partner with creative and product teams to improve product content, images, videos, claims, comparison messaging, and educational merchandising.
  • Support CRO initiatives by identifying, briefing, and prioritizing merchandising tests that can improve conversion, AOV, attach rate, and product discovery.
  • Manage site promotional merchandising strategy, including offer setup, product placement, collection sequencing, and promotional visibility.
  • Forecast promotional impact, including revenue opportunity, discount cost, margin implications, inventory risk, and expected sell-through.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, merchandising, or a related field.
  • 4–5+ years of experience in ecommerce merchandising, ecommerce management, or a related online retail role.
  • Hands-on experience with Shopify Plus strongly preferred.
  • Strong understanding of ecommerce KPIs, including CVR, AOV, RPV, UPO, attach rate, add-to-cart rate, bounce rate, and sell-through.
  • Strong understanding of ecommerce customer behavior, CRO principles, SEO fundamentals, product content optimization, and digital shopping journeys.
  • Experience merchandising collections, category pages, PDPs, landing pages, product recommendations, site search, filters, and promotional campaigns.
  • Strong analytical skills with experience using GA4, BigQuery, Shopify analytics, or similar ecommerce reporting tools.
  • Experience working with PIM systems, CMS tools, product feeds, or catalog management platforms preferred.
  • Excellent written communication skills with strong attention to detail.
  • Highly organized self-starter who can manage multiple priorities, move quickly, and drive measurable results.
  • Experience in automotive, beauty, personal care, CPG, specialty retail, or other enthusiast-driven product categories preferred.

    Benefits

    • Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k match, voluntary Life and Disability insurance, FSA, PTO + 5 sick days, 9 holidays + 1 floating holiday & employee discount.

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