Title: Category Head - Fashion & Beauty

Location: Hybrid office hours - New York City, Los Angeles, or Seattle

Company: Global social media platform with more than a billion users.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for building the category operation foundation for the ecommerce business of the fashion and beauty categories in US. The job scope will mainly be building a strong team (approx. 25+ people) according to category operation logic, introducing high potential brands/merchants to commerce platform, and driving their growth with other teams & external partners.

• Design the overall fashion and Beauty category growth strategy for the business - to define goals, identify opportunities and design approaches.
• Build and develop a strong team according to the fashion and beauty category growth priorities and business rationale.
• Acquire and incubate fashion and beauty brand principals, distributors and merchants to support category growth.
• Discover innovative collaborative models that fit into merchants' short-term and long-term development plans, and invest platform resources effectively and efficiently.
• Solve key challenges in business growth by strong collaboration with cross-function teams.

Requirements:

• VP or higher level of experience, leading teams of 25+
• 10+ years experience in multi-brand e-commerce/marketplace business.
• 5+ years experiences in fashion and beauty categories.
• 5+ years experiences as people manager, to manage a significant team size.
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• A good team player, fast learner and open to changes.
• Attention to detail, affinity with numbers, logical and strong in problem solving.
• Strong connections with brands and distributors are preferred.