Job Description

Company Description

Lightopia was founded in 2006 and has become a leader in the residential and commercial lighting retail world. The company has a robust online presence at lightopia.com and a showroom in Costa Mesa, California, and offers premier architectural lighting design services with our ALA certified sales team.

Role Description

The Assistant Site Merchandiser is responsible for accurately publishing hundreds to thousands of new items to the site and must ensure that product pages are accurate and inspiring. You are committed to every detail, from the product dimensions to the selling price. There is ongoing product maintenance and regular communication with a host of internal cross-functional teams and external vendor partners. This position reports to the Director of Merchandising. Main tasks are:

Item Setup: 

• Responsible for thoughtfully setting up thousands of new items weekly in our proprietary product information management system
• Review product setup forms from vendors in detail to ensure consistency and accuracy
• Work with our vendors to ensure that all product data is accurate and has the most updated images
• Upload videos and maintain our accounts. Add videos to product pages
• Think like a customer and thoughtfully attribute facets to all items, including style, type, color family, etc, to drive the right result set for the shopping experience
• Perform regular item maintenance to ensure continued product integrity and ultimately, a clean shopping journey for our customers

Pricing Promotions: 

• With high attention to detail, manage cost and retail pricing for thousands of items daily
• Review pricing changes and bubble up issues or callouts to Director of Merchandising
• Accurately execute price promotions in proprietary system using Excel

Site Merchandising: 

• Think like a customer and merchandise the site to create engaging, interesting and arresting shopping experiences
• Create inspiring and educational banners and site experiences to improve the customer journey with the merchandising tools
• Select inspiring images, determine best shopping tile CTAs, while adhering to the brand style guide

What You Bring to the Role

• Superior attention to detail and exceptional organizational skills
• A sense of urgency
• Ability to prioritize against competing projects and deadlines
• Clear, professional and respectful written and oral communication skills
• Affinity for, or interest in, home design and décor
• Ability to self-motivate and work in a remote environment

Qualifications & Requirements

• Preferred: 1 year minimum of professional work experience in similar role
• Sense of urgency, detail-oriented, and able to provide clear and thorough communication
• Able to build collaborative relationships with internal and external partners in a remote environment
• Must be able to operate independently with minimal daily supervision
• Commitment to and passion for continuous improvement
• Experience with the following systems is preferred – Microsoft Office, especially Excel

A full range of medical, dental, vision, and/or additional benefits such as company paid life insurance STD and PTO.

Our Purpose and Growth Culture:

We are taking deliberate action to cultivate an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to tie spaces together with meaningful design. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key core values – Team First - we collaborate and support each other • Whatever It Takes - we get it done • Win On Service - we do right by our customers • Be Curious - we seek creative, data-driven solutions

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. When we collect your personal information as part of a job application or offer of employment, we do so in accordance with industry standards and best practices and in compliance with applicable privacy laws.

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