Responsibilities

• Develop editorial and commerce calendars across multiple interest areas and retail categories, identifying seasonal moments, emerging trends, and social-first content opportunities.
• Conduct ongoing trend scouting across social platforms, creator ecosystems, media publications, competitive brands, and cultural moments to identify opportunities for content and product storytelling.
• Curate and merchandise products aligned to editorial themes and social trends, creating detailed product lists and creative briefs for Content Creators.
• Partner closely with Content Creators to provide styling guidance, product context, and creative inspiration that enables best-in-class social-first content.
• Monitor social media, influencers, and cultural trends to identify viral products, emerging aesthetics, and evolving customer interests.
• Perform market analyses and competitive audits to identify content white spaces, merchandising opportunities, and shifts in consumer behavior.
• Develop category expertise across a portfolio of interest verticals, including but not limited to Food & Cooking, Beauty & Personal Care, Fashion & Style, Sports & Outdoors, Home & Living, Electronics & Tech, Wellness & Active Living, Pets & Animals, Arts & Crafts, Gaming & Play, Music & Instruments, Photo & Film, Reading & Book Culture, Celebrations & Gatherings, Hobbies & Collecting, and Parenting & Kids’ World.
• Partner alongside stakeholders to ensure editorial plans and product selections align with brand identity, business priorities, and customer interests.
• Present editorial calendars, trend reports, product curations, and learnings/insights in stakeholder reviews.
• Establish and maintain organized tools, templates, and tracking mechanisms for editorial calendars, product lists, and content planning.

Requirements

• 5+ years relevant experience in merchandising, editorial, content curation, styling, trend forecasting, or digital marketing.
• Deep understanding of social media culture with demonstrated experience identifying trends, viral products, creators, and cultural moments that influence customer behavior.
• Strong merchandising and styling instincts with the ability to curate products that tell compelling stories and resonate with customers.
• Experience developing editorial calendars or content strategies across multiple categories or consumer interests.
• Demonstrated ability to balance strategic thinking with operational excellence in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Proficient with Airtable, Excel, Asana, or similar planning and organizational tools.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred

• Experience working in a customer-facing editorial, merchandising, social media, or creative role for retailer, publisher, media company, or consumer brand.
• Portfolio showcasing editorial calendars, trend reports, product curations, merchandising strategies, or related work.
• Extensive knowledge of the contemporary retail landscape, brands, creators, and consumer trends.
• Fluency with social media and influencer marketing, including creators and communities across demographic segments.
• Experience partnering closely with content creators, photographers, stylists, or creative teams to develop customer-facing content.

Benefits

• Benefits and perks may vary depending on location and nature of the work, but eligible employees have access to medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&D benefits, health savings and flexible spending accounts, other telehealth and wellness benefits, a minimum of seven paid holidays per year, accrual of at least 6.5 days (Temporary Employment) to at least 15 days (Regular Employment) of paid time off per year, a 401k plan with company match, discretionary bonuses dependent on company, team or individual performance, and referral bonuses for eligible hired referrals.