<div class="content-intro"><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Help empower our global customers to connect to culture through their passions.</strong></p></div><h3><strong>Why you’ll love this role:</strong></h3> <p>StockX is the world’s leading marketplace for current culture, built at the intersection of commerce, community, and credibility. Apparel is foundational to StockX — not just as a category, but as an expression of identity, culture, and global trends.</p> <p>We are expanding how apparel culture shows up on StockX through creator-driven, community-oriented commerce experiences that blend storytelling, expertise, and transaction. To do this well, we need category leaders who don’t just understand the apparel market — they live inside it.</p> <p>The Apparel Category Manager is the single-threaded owner of apparel category growth within a new, high-priority commerce initiative. This person is the in-house expert on Fashion & Apparel culture, people, economics, and moments — and is responsible for translating that expertise into supply growth, engagement, and GMV.</p> <p>You will act as:</p> <ul> <li>The internal authority on the first-hand and second-hand apparel ecosystem</li> <li>The external face of StockX to apparel sellers, creators, designers, and community leaders</li> <li>The architect of the apparel go-to-market playbook for this new initiative</li> </ul> <p>This role blends deep cultural fluency, strategic ownership, and hands-on execution. Early on, you will own everything related to apparel within this initiative. As the category scales, you will grow into a leader overseeing a broader apparel portfolio and team.</p> <h3><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></h3> <h4><strong>Own the Apparel Category End-to-End</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Define and execute the growth strategy for apparel within the platform</li> <li>Own category-level performance across supply, engagement, and revenue</li> <li>Establish quarterly goals, leading indicators, and operating rhythms</li> </ul> <h4><strong>Be the Market & Culture Expert</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Maintain deep, current knowledge of apparel culture, including:</li> <ul> <li>Key sellers, creators, designers, brands, and retailers</li> <li>Sub-segments (streetwear, luxury, contemporary, vintage, performance, regional styles, etc.)</li> <li>Seasonal drops, brand dynamics, collaborations, and cultural moments</li> <li>Pricing dynamics, liquidity, and resale economics</li> </ul> <li>Serve as the internal voice of the apparel community, informing product, marketing, and platform decisions</li> </ul> <h4><strong>Supply & Creator Acquisition</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Build and own a pipeline of high-impact apparel sellers, shops, designers, influencers, brands, and creators</li> <li>Personally recruit and onboard flagship sellers who set the tone for the platform</li> <li>Develop seller strategies that balance credibility, storytelling, and commerce</li> </ul> <h4><strong>Commerce Strategy & Category Moments</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Identify and orchestrate Fashion & Apparel-specific moments, campaigns, and formats that drive engagement and conversion</li> <li>Partner with Category Marketing to design culturally authentic activations</li> <li>Experiment with new approaches and iterate quickly based on performance and feedback</li> </ul> <h4><strong>Cross-Functional Leadership</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Work closely with Account and Partnerships Managers to scale seller acquisition and support</li> <li>Collaborate with Product and Engineering to shape features and tools that matter to category sellers and buyers</li> <li>Provide clear, actionable insights from the market to influence roadmap prioritization</li> </ul> <h4><strong>Build the Playbook</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Document learnings, frameworks, and best practices that can be reused across future categories</li> <li>Help define what “great” looks like for category ownership at StockX</li> <li>Support hiring and onboarding as the apparel category team grows</li> </ul> <h3><strong>About you:</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Deeply embedded in second-hand fashion & apparel culture — you know the people, platforms, trends, and economics, and you’re already plugged into the ecosystem</li> <li>5+ years of experience in category management, partnerships, marketplace growth, brand, or operator roles in apparel, streetwear, fashion, or adjacent ecosystems</li> <li>Comfortable owning outcomes, not just strategy — you execute, iterate, and adapt</li> <li>Strong relationship builder with credibility among sellers, creators, designers, and community members</li> <li>Data-literate and commercially minded — you understand pricing, margins, liquidity, and incentives</li> <li>Entrepreneurial, scrappy, and energized by building something from the ground up</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Nice to Have:</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Existing network of apparel resellers, brand operators, designers, boutiques, or creators</li> <li>Experience buying and selling apparel or operating within resale or fashion marketplaces</li> <li>Familiarity with content-driven commerce, creator platforms, or enthu