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Veliu

AI-powered trade-in platform for circular economy

Head of Luxury Fashion

Full-Time
No salary listed
Senior
Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy
Hybrid
ProductProduct Management

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 5 years of experience in the luxury fashion industry within the online business-to-consumer space.
  • A strong understanding of industry dynamics and customer behavior, including second-hand fashion signals.
  • Experience operating with dashboards, cohort analysis, and test-and-learn roadmaps.
  • Experience leading cross-functional work with Marketing, Product, Operations, and Customer Experience, along with vendor and stakeholder management.
  • Taste and judgment that balance trend relevance, brand DNA, and commercial outcomes.
  • High ownership, bias to action, and comfort switching between strategy and hands-on execution.
Responsibilities
  • Own category strategy end to end, including business goals and margin targets, product vision, inventory and brand expansion, and pricing architecture.
  • Translate cultural and market signals into clear, testable marketing initiatives.
  • Validate concepts through data, customer feedback, and small-batch drops.
  • Partner with Marketing on narratives, creators, and campaigns across paid, social, email, and site.
  • Collaborate with Product and User Experience on site merchandising, product detail pages, size guidance, bundling, and experimentation to improve conversion.
  • Use analytics to own key performance indicators and business outcomes.
  • Work with Operations on lead times, cost, and customer satisfaction.

About the company

VELIU provides an AI-powered fintech platform that helps consumers monetize pre-owned goods by offering trade-in options through partners like retailers, e-commerce platforms, and telecoms. The platform gives instant valuations for millions of products and connects shoppers to a network of professional buyers, while handling logistics via about 2,000 collection points and using renewable-energy servers. It differentiates itself by delivering turnkey B2B2C integrations that enable trade-in without price cuts, supported by rapid AI valuations and a broad, sustainable value chain across collection, refurbishment, and recycling. Its goal is to scale circular economy activities by making asset monetization easy, reducing waste, and promoting sustainable consumption through widespread adoption of trade-in and re-commerce in Europe.

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Headquarters

Milan, Italy

Founded

2024

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • July 2025 funding from Emblem, B Heroes, and Simon Fiduciaria extends runway.
  • Milan and Dublin hiring suggests active buildout across sales, product, and engineering.
  • Rising AI-shopping adoption in 2026 fits Veliu's agent-readable catalog positioning.

What critics are saying

  • Stealth since 2024 leaves customer traction unproven against Back Market and Swappie.
  • September 2026 jobs show nine openings, signaling burn before revenue visibility.
  • Agentic-commerce pivot risks product confusion; two narratives usually kill startup credibility fast.

What makes Veliu unique

  • 2026 product pivots to agent-readable catalogs for AI shopping agents.
  • July 2025 €3.4 million pre-seed funded Dublin-Milan team from Palantir, Apple, eBay.
  • No-code retail integration and 2,000 collection points simplify trade-in deployment.

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