Web/Digital Merchandiser

Walker Edison is a thriving, eCommerce company that relies on good data and hard-working employees to create an excellent experience for every customer. Our success comes from an attitude of innovation, never settling, and giving back to the community. 

Walker Edison is looking for a full-time Web/Digital Merchandiser for our Walkeredison.com website to join our DTC team. We are a small entrepreneur team, reliant on positive attitudes, hardworking and the ability to work collaboratively. The Web Merchandiser is responsible for merchandising our website to create a best-in-class online customer experience on Walkeredison.com. Optimizing the customer journey through merchandising and product placement. Working closely with the creative team to ensure assets fit the designated areas on our website and tell a comprehensive story. This job will be supporting the VP of DTC day-to-day improving the website for traffic, conversion, and AOV. In this cross-functional role, he or she will partner with creative teams and product teams to launch and merchandise products and collections on the site. They must also be comfortable with balancing many projects and meeting deadlines efficiently. We are looking for organized, hardworking, and problem-solving people who aren’t afraid to take ownership of their projects. This person will oversee the site experience optimizations, on-site testing, and digital strategic initiatives. This role requires the ability to think like the consumer, merchandise our website, and operate cross-functionally.

This is how you can contribute to our success:  

• Site Maintenance & Experience: Responsible for the end-to-end setup of all products for the site, including reviewing images, confirming inventory, coordinating copy, product data uploads, site QA.
• Understand product inventory in relation to prioritization of digital assets.
• Own the merchandising strategy for all landing pages and collections as well as marketing channels landing pages and link strategy for each campaign.
• Deliver requirements of merchandising in briefs for creative team, ensuring adequate coverage of critical products.
• Oversee QA of site to ensure a best-in-class customer experience and troubleshoot site issues related to merchandising set up and site maintenance.
• Ensure execution of promotions through proper set-up, testing, and deployment.
• Communicate a compelling reason behind every design decision. 
• Analytics & Reporting: Understanding category and product performance to identify key trends and shifts in user behavior.
• Act as the eyes of the live site and take initiative on calling out recommendations based on sales and marketing.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work collaboratively with creative team to ensure delivery of assets and copy needed to complete desired user experience outcome (photos, video, copy).
• Align website merchandising strategies to executions of categories and products within CRM, Paid Channels, and Organic Channels.
• Partner with web developers to brainstorm new experiences to build and test roadmap.
• Strong understanding of website requirements for a Shopify Plus website.

 Qualifications:  

• Required consumer product experience for a brand with a DTC website
• 5+ years of website merchandising for a consumer product company
• Strong analytical skills; Excel, PowerPoint, Google Analytics 
• Ability to work well independently and in a team setting
• Experience merchandising a website for campaigns
• Experience with Shopify Plus websites
• Strong furniture sense with a consumer mindset

We accept candidates for remote, out of state employment with the exception of California.

Benefits
Comprehensive benefits include fully subsidized medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as life insurance, dependent care and flex spending accounts, a generous 401k match, very competitive PTO, and education and childcare reimbursement. Additional perks include complimentary market and gym discount.

About The Company 
Walker Edison is one of the largest ready to assemble furniture companies. We specialize in E-Commerce and are expanding into all channels, including Brick and Mortar. With offices in the China, Vietnam, Brazil, and the United States, Walker Edison relies on data analytics and hard-working employees to create an excellent experience for every customer. Our success comes from an attitude of innovation, never settling, and giving back to the community.