Private Brands Brand Management Lead - Kids

Stitch Fix•San Francisco, CA

30d

About The Position

As the Private Brands Brand Management Lead - Kids at Stitch Fix, you will play a central role in evolving and scaling our Private Brands business at Stitch Fix. This person will be a key partner to our Private Brands and Buying teams and will build and support Girls and Boys Private Brands strategies ensuring clear reason for being and strong leverage across categories to drive full head-to-toe strategy and holistic outfitting. In addition, you will help to lead process innovation, creating a sustainable Private Brands way of working as well as driving change management. This is a unique opportunity to leverage your existing knowledge and passion for product creation and project management at a company that continues to disrupt the industry by blending art and science.

Requirements

5-8 years of vertical private label work experience in Brand Management, Product Development and Design in diverse apparel categories. Experience in Kids, Tween, Juniors is preferred. Kids apparel graphic design experience is a huge plus.
You are a tech wizard and easily adopt new software and ways of working, continually innovating through AI-applications and optimization
You are skilled in multi-stream project management and driving results
You have strong product acumen (style, fabric, trim, construction) and are able to distill aspirational concepts into commercial key items for mass market appeal
You have a strong design aesthetic with ability to pull inspiration from aspirational sources and direct competitors
You have strong product vision with ability to visualize and translate 2D concepts into physical products
You have a strong ability to influence stakeholders for impact
You are a positive team player who is able to work independently
You are comfortable with ambiguity, complex problems and nuanced approaches to solutions
You possess strong analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills
You have strong business acumen and are able to turn micro sales analysis into macro strategies
You are passionate about continuous improvement and can incorporate changes to both tools and process to drive optimal results
You build strong relationships with team members at various levels within an organization, establishing trust and respect without authority
You enjoy seeing an idea through from concept to implementation
You exhibit a high degree of cross-cultural awareness and sensitivity
You work well in a demanding, fast-paced environment and can manage competing priorities
You are highly self-motivated, you have a stellar work ethic and you’re looking for the right company to support your creative growth
You have superior Excel skills and are a PowerPoint wiz
You are willing to travel up to 10% seasonally, excluding SF HQ working weeks
Above all else, you are Bright, Kind and Motivated by Challenge

Responsibilities

Partner with LT on the Private Brands matrix for Kids ensuring compelling reason for being for each and strong product/market fit for the Stitch Fix client
Build and maintain clear and compelling brand briefs that bring each brand to life for internal and external partners
Maintain a strong pulse on the competitive landscape and present out new brand opportunities based on analysis
Lead brand asset build-outs in partnership with Creative team and Vendor partners - packaging, branded trims, etc
Be the creative brand strategist and voice to continually optimize the Brands’ point of view and value-proposition for the client
Maintain a strong understanding on business trends to ensure Private Brands is delivering “better than” financial and client outcomes with newness & variety in commercial trend and style solutions
Partner with Trend Manager to concept seasonal trends, product strategies, big ideas, color concepts
Partner with Material Manager to map fabric concepts by Brand and identify whitespace opportunities for development
Manage rotating design resources to build seasonal design assets including, but not limited to, color palettes, art concepts, style and color assortment libraries
Own concepting style level brand assortments that build on client-right newness, commercial trend, and data-driven decision-making
Partner with Materials, Sourcing, Technical Design, and Quality to ensure vendor strategies uphold and advance commitments to best-in-class fit, quality, responsible sourcing, and sustainability
Lead on-product-marketing with coordination cross-functionally on Name+Claim, copy, and packaging
Educate company and cross functional partners on our brands, with focus on quarterly Stylist Training, All Hands, BoD Meetings, and ad-hoc opportunities
Leverage data and deep understanding of client to drive decision-making and strategy evolution
Serve as the centralized Private Brands expert and amplify category or LOB specific strategies to drive holistic Private Brands leverage