Business Operations
San Francisco/Remote (US)
We’re transforming e-commerce by making it easy for brands to plug in with top-quality manufacturers around the world, leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to streamline and optimize every aspect of the process.
Shopify made it easy for brands to sell products, but getting those products made is painful. Join us as we build the world’s first AI product sourcing agent and usher in a new era of e-commerce — helping brands tap into the global manufacturing ecosystem and easily launch new products.
We’re a team of builders, operators, and investors from Stripe, Google, Amazon, Palantir, and Anduril. We’re well funded and have already built our core technology.
Learn more about Cavela at https://www.cavela.com/
What we’re looking for
We’re looking for someone to lead and build out Cavela’s business operations as our first business hire.
Responsibilities
- User Engagement: Meticulously track and manage users’ sourcing projects from initial request to final delivery, ensuring timely follow-up and high satisfaction, and constant communication throughout.
- Supplier Coordination: Liaise with our sourcing team in Asia to relay user needs to suppliers, interpret supplier updates, and communicate them effectively back to users.
- Systems Creation: Build and optimize operational systems to enhance the product sourcing experience, leveraging advanced AI and technology to automate and refine workflows.
- Product Collaboration: Partner with our design team to transform user feedback and UX insights into impactful product improvements, ensuring that AI and technology drive the development of sophisticated systems and features.
- Growth Initiatives: Identify and build out new channels for customer acquisition, contributing to company growth.
Requirements
- Experience: 3+ years in building and scaling operations.
- Sourcing Expertise: Experience with supplier relations and product sourcing specifically — ideally related to the apparel/accessories product space.
- Product Minded: Able to understand user needs and work closely with design teams to shape a compelling product experience.
- Systems Thinker: Skilled in planning and building end-to-end workflows, from user requests through supplier coordination, with a strong emphasis on technological integration.
- Communication Skills: Excellent interpersonal abilities for cross-cultural, cross-functional collaboration across users, suppliers, design, and operations teams.
- Flexibility: Adaptable to irregular working hours. Important due to the global distribution of suppliers.
About us
- We’re a group of driven, passionate people from all over the world fired up about building ambitious, high impact products that matter.
- We’re ex-Stripe/-Google/-Amazon from MIT, Dartmouth, Parsons, and McGill, with a ton of startup experience, and some extraordinary advisors behind us (Palantir, Anduril, Coinbase).
- We’re future-obsessed. We’re tackling a complex problem in a new way by leveraging cutting edge technology, and looking to transform an entire industry in the process.
How to apply
Please get in touch at careers@cavela.com - we’re always interested in meeting exceptional talent.
