REMOTE POSITION. IF CANDIDATE IS IN NYC, WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU COME INTO THE OFFICE

We’re looking for a driven, detail-oriented and super communicative/upbeat person to join our startup team at Propped!

Are you ready for the ride?

A qualified candidate will be able to work 30 hours/week and will be able to wear many hats. Ideally he/she has analytical experience, an eye for aesthetics, and is a creative problem solver with initiative.

More than anything, we’re looking for the kind of personality characteristics that will align with our brand: an upbeat attitude and ability to communicate well, hyper-vigilant attention to detail, drive, proactivity, and a love for our business & mission.

We'll need commitment M-F given the ongoing needs of the business. In return, you'll learn what it's like work with a recently-launched startup.

You’ll gain experience working with experts from numerous fields from branding, social media, finance, digital marketing strategy, design, and more.

You’ll work with A-players as those are the only people whom we’ve hired into full-time positions.

And you’ll have the opportunity to be considered for a permanent position as one of the first 10 employees of this high growth, exciting business.

Responsibilities include:

• Schedule meetings and keep team organized

• Attend all meetings and keep thorough notes / assign action items to team members; make sure that they complete their tasks

• Support finance/accounting team to help maintain accounts

• Brainstorm and help execute social media campaigns alongside our social media marketing lead

• Site maintenance: Quality control the site daily to look for broken links, image issues, product categorization; Check for inventory and shipping issues

• Moderate comments on website as they arise and relay issues to web developers/marketing team - Compile weekly report on site performance for team

• Compile weekly roundup of interesting links re: relevant topics in marketing, ecommerce, trends, customer service, general business, etc. and circulate with the team

• Research new makers/sellers to add to our list for outreach

• Source content for social bookmarking and social media

• Assemble list of PR contacts and opportunities

• Create LinkedIn and AngelList page for Propped

• Help coordinate US makers / social influencers tour (may require some local travel)

• Roll up your sleeves and manage additional responsibilities as they arise (they no doubt will!)

*Propped, which launched on December 5, 2016, is solving one of the biggest issues in e-commerce today: the global community of 400 million “food evangelists” are increasingly telling their food stories online using blogs and social media sites such as Facebook and Instagram, yet these avid home cooks and food lovers can’t easily find unique kitchenware items from makers, artisans, and vintage collectors.

Today these items represent a multi-billion dollar industry, and they’re being inefficiently sold through fragmented channels and generalist marketplaces. Propped aims to change this.

We’ve built the first marketplace for the food community and makers/collectors of kitchenware to buy and sell directly from each other.

Targeted connection and access is a model that has worked in parallel industries – fashion, furniture, home design – from Poshmark, Tradesy and Vinted to Chairish and Houzz – and we’re in the process of building Propped into the next VC-backed single-audience marketplace.

Our founder is a food community member with 40K followers on Instagram. With her audience and food community/maker connections as our foundation, we were able to supercharge our pre-launch efforts, amassing over 10K Instagram followers, creating a hit blog, and signing up over 40 makers to sell through our site before they’d even seen our product live.

Next steps involve proving out the business model with strong sales growth, and continuing with our efforts to pitch investors, many of whom are already supportive of the concept.

• Be responsive and energetic

• Be a doer, ready to work on anything that comes our way, which is what our team does daily!

• Be comfortable selling his or her ideas to the team

• Have excellent writing and communication skills

• Be super, super, super organized (for project management that has many touch points)

• Have an interest in food / the food community )or at the very least, the desire to learn about this industry)

Timing...

We’re looking for someone who can start as soon as possible, and stay on board for 4 full months (starting as soon as possible to end of May).

At the end of that 4-month period we can discuss next steps and whether there’s an opportunity for full time employment if both parties are interested in continuing.

Analytical skills, Creativity / Strong visual eye

Launched in December, 2016, Propped is an online peer-to-peer marketplace for the global food community; it's a place to buy and sell hard-to-find kitchen and dining goods (from local makers/artisans) as well as vintage items. It's like Ebay/Etsy but more tailored, more searchable, more beautiful, and more connected for the social and aesthetic needs of 400million+ "food evangelists" who cook and share their meals online with friends and followers.

We're looking to fill out our startup team. Our founder, Jessica Fiorillo, is an ex-Goldman Sachs financial analyst, ran her own brand strategy business for years, and is a food community influencer with 40K followers on Instagram. The goal of our internship program is to work with a set of bright new talent and find out whether there's a fit for longer-term employment post-funding (funding process to start late fall/early winter). This is a great opportunity for someone ambitious and driven to jump into a fast-paced role at the next big e-commerce platform. In the past 3 years, hundreds of $millions have been raised for similar businesses in women’s fashion resale (Poshmark, Tradesy, Vinted, ThredUP, etc) and we’re the first to go after the uber-connected food community. We look forward to meeting you!