--- title: 'Merchant at Poshmark' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/merchant-poshmark-redwood-city-hyxtzzt11yd1' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Merchant at Poshmark - **Company:** Poshmark - **Location:** Redwood City, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-08-24 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/poshmark/c84cedc5-ca62-4c3b-8c14-f1ee6a0f5710 ## Job description ## ABOUT POSHMARK Poshmark is the leading fashion marketplace where style comes alive through discovery, self-expression, and human connection. Powered by a vibrant community of 165 million members, Poshmark brings real people and taste to shopping through a social experience shaped by shared discovery. Buying and selling fashion feels simple, joyful, and personal, while every item tells its own story. Poshmark empowers sellers to grow meaningful businesses, keeps fashion in circulation longer, and gives shoppers access to unique and trusted finds, from everyday pieces to one-of-a-kind vintage and luxury. Poshmark's inventory is vast, dynamic, and unlike anything in traditional retail. This role exists to make sense of it and build processes around optimizing it to create intentional demand across the platform, digging in to where supply is constrained or oversaturated, and shaping how we surface the right product to the right buyer at the right moment. You'll operate as the merchant lead across all categories — Women's, Men's, Kids, Luxury, Sneakers, Home, and beyond — developing a platform-wide view of what's selling, what's stalling, and what we're missing. You'll translate that intelligence into action: working with site merchandising, growth, product, and supply teams to drive demand where the inventory exists and identify supply gaps where demand is outpacing listing volume. This is a commercially-minded role that sits at the intersection of data, intuition, and cross-functional influence. You'll manage an assistant merchant and be a key contributor to the broader Merchandising function as it scales. What You Will Do: Own category performance end to end This role sits at the center of two key workstreams: shaping what supply comes onto the platform before demand catches up to it, and deploying the supply we already have against the right seasonal story at the right moment. Categories are built utilizing both levers continuously in response to real time data tracking. Turn market movement into action Track sell-through, trend velocity, search behavior, and category liquidity closely enough to catch what is building and conversely, what is downtrending. Turn that read into merchandising calls and recommendations the rest of the org can act on. Develop an always-on supply demand mindset Break inventory health down by category, brand, and price point to see where supply is too thin to meet demand, and where depth exists but isn't converting. Then work both angles: pull demand levers against the inventory we already hold, and push the supply team to acquire what we don't. This is the core skill the role is built around — not just diagnosing the imbalance, but developing and honing levers to address it. Get product in front of the right audience at the right time Partnering with product and engineering you create usable data frameworks for making product and assortment decisions — shaping feed ranking, search, PDPs, and editorial placement, not just the homepage carousel. The goal is influence embedded throughout the experience, wherever it moves the category forward. Set the category's seasonal messaging cadence Work with merchandising, marketing, product and data teams plan seasonal pushes, trend moments, and promotional windows in step with growth marketing, paid media, and supply. Every seasonal moment should be a chance to activate existing inventory and influence and highlight where future supply needs are. Oversee all categories - Womens and Mens/Kids Set direction, delegate real ownership, and build their capability over time. Be the link between daily execution and the VP of Merchandising's strategic priorities — translating one into the other in both directions. Help build the intelligence layer categories run on Contribute to Poshmark's demand intelligence infrastructure — shaping the metrics, cadences, and inputs that make the supply/demand call faster and sharper every season, for you and for whoever holds this seat next. ## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Commercial Instinct - Strong feel for product, trend, and consumer behavior — what people want and why - Comfortable making recommendations with incomplete information - Background in retail, marketplace, or e-commerce merchandising Analytical Fluency - Confident reading dashboards, sell-through reports, and performance data - Knows which metrics matter and can spot meaningful patterns in noisy data - Able to build and present a clear, data-grounded business case Cross-functional Influence - Experienced working across product, growth, and supply teams - Can translate merchandising priorities into language that resonates with each team - Builds trust and alignment without relying on authority People & Ops - Some prior management experience, or a clear track record of leading projects and guiding junior teammates - Organized and reliable — manages competing priorities without dropping balls - Thrives in a build-mode environment with evolving processes ## NICE TO HAVE - Resale or secondhand market experience - Fashion or apparel category background - Experience in a two-sided marketplace - Familiarity with feed ranking or search merchandising - Exposure to demand forecasting or inventory planning tools ## EXPERIENCE 5–8 years in merchandising, buying, or category management, ideally within a consumer marketplace, e-commerce platform, or multi-category retailer. Experience managing at least one direct report is preferred, but will consider strong individual contributors who are ready to step into a people management role for the first time. ## About Poshmark ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Poshmark is a social commerce marketplace where users can buy and sell new and secondhand fashion, home goods, electronics, and more, combining social engagement with ecommerce. - **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Naver Corporation in January 2023 for $1.2 billion; formerly public with ticker POSH on NASDAQ) - **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, USA - **Founded**: 2011 - **Founders**: Manish Chandra, Chetan Pungaliya, Gautam Golwala, Tracy Sun ## Core Business - **Industries**: Social commerce, retail fashion resale, ecommerce - **Target Customers**: B2C — individual sellers and buyers (primarily consumers), with a strong focus on women’s fashion and expanding into men’s, kids’, pets, home, and beauty categories - **Mission Statement**: "To put people at the heart of commerce, empowering everyone to thrive." ## Products & Services - **[Poshmark Marketplace]**: A social marketplace app and website where users buy and sell new or used items across fashion, home, electronics, and beauty. Core features include "Posh Shows" (live selling events), "Closet Clear Out," and "Offer to Likers." It is a peer-to-peer platform with a strong community focus. - **[Posh Protect]**: Buyer protection program that ensures items are as described or the buyer gets a refund. - **[Posh Post]**: A simplified shipping service with flat-rate labeling for sellers. - **[Poshmark for Brands/Partners]**: Programs enabling brands to engage with the community, manage official closets, and run promotions. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Acquired by Naver Corporation in January 2023 for $1.2 billion (all-cash transaction). Prior to going private, its market cap was approximately $1.2 billion at the time of the deal announcement. - **Key Metric (Revenue)**: Annual revenue of approximately **$326 million** (latest available, from pre-acquisition filings; private company post-acquisition, financials not publicly disclosed). - **Key Metric (Community)**: Over **80 million registered users** across the U.S., Canada, Australia, and India; over **350 million items sold** to date; sellers have generated over **$8 billion in earnings**. - **Key Metric (Funding)**: Prior to its IPO, Poshmark raised over $150 million from investors including Mayfield Fund, GGV Capital, Menlo Ventures, and others. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Naver Corporation (parent company), Mayfield Fund, GGV Capital, Menlo Ventures, Rakuten, and others. - **Growth Signals**: International expansion into Canada, Australia, and India; launch of "Posh Shows" live shopping; headcount growth of 5% YoY to approximately 1,855 employees; active hiring in engineering, data science, and product roles. ## Competitive Advantages - **Community-First Social Commerce**: A highly engaged, loyal community of buyers and sellers—over 130 million items sold—differentiating it from traditional resale platforms like ThredUp or eBay. - **Established Brand & Trust**: The "Posh Protect" program and consistent user experience create strong trust, with over $8 billion in seller earnings to date. - **Data & Personalization Moat**: A large dataset on user preferences, selling patterns, and fashion trends powers recommendation algorithms and seller tools. - **Parent Company Backing**: Naver’s resources (technology, AI, global reach) provide stability while allowing Poshmark to operate independently. ## Strategic Focus - **Expanding Live Commerce**: Investing in "Posh Shows" to compete with TikTok Shop and other live selling formats, especially in the U.S. and international markets. - **International Growth**: Deepening presence in Canada, Australia, and India, which are newer markets relative to the U.S. - **Platform Enhancements**: Improving seller tools (e.g., AI-driven pricing, inventory management, shipping logistics) to increase conversion and user retention. - **Sustainability & Circular Economy**: Positioning the platform as a leader in sustainable fashion (keeping items in circulation), which aligns with growing consumer trends. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Values**: Core values include "Focus on People," "Lead with Love," and "Embrace Your Weirdness." The company emphasizes authenticity, inclusion, and connection—both within the team and with the community. - **Work Policy**: Hybrid workplace model (mix of remote and on-site, varying by team). Redwood City HQ is the primary hub, with offices in Chennai, Vancouver, and New York City. Many engineering and corporate roles are expected to work from the office on a regular basis. - **Benefits**: Comprehensive health & wellness, flexible PTO, parental/family leave, 401K plan, remote work support, learning & development programs, and fun company events. Personal style (or not) is encouraged. - **Engineering Culture**: Tech stack includes AWS, Java, Python, Kotlin, Ruby on Rails, Swift, Kubernetes, Terraform, and more. Teams work on ML, infrastructure, data engineering, and platform products. The company focuses on empowering engineers with autonomy and driving impact from day one. - **Stability & Outlook**: Backed by Naver, a large and stable tech conglomerate, Poshmark has a solid financial footing and is actively hiring in engineering, data, and product roles. - **Employee Ratings**: 4.0/5.0 on LinkedIn (417 reviews) — Work-Life Balance: 4.3, Compensation: 3.6, Culture: 4.3, Career: 3.8. ## Sources 1. [poshmark.com](https://poshmark.com/about) 2. [poshmark.com](https://poshmark.com/careers) 3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/poshmark) 4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/poshmark) 5. [investors.poshmark.com](https://investors.poshmark.com/news/news-details/2022/Naver-to-Acquire-Poshmark/default.aspx) 6. [boards.greenhouse.io](https://boards.greenhouse.io/poshmark) 7. 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