E-commerce Merchandising Manager

Torrance, CA (Hybrid)

$110K/yr – $115K/yrMid Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the Shopify Plus merchandising engine to optimize discovery, cross-sell, bundles, and promotions while driving conversion, AOV, and revenue per visitor.

  • Growth & Merchandising Strategy: Align product content, bundles, and cross-sell to guide customers between related products, routines, and solutions.
  • CRO & Analytics-Driven Optimizations: Identify friction, run merchandising tests, and forecast promo impact using data to convert visitors into buyers.
  • Content & Experience Execution: Brief creative needs and elevate PDPs with clear use cases, benefits, compatibility, and educational merchandising, in sync with broader brand goals.

Job Description

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.

Preferred

  • Experience merchandising for TikTok Shop and social commerce channels
  • Experience with cross-functional partnering and influencing without authority

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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