As an early employee, our Operations & Finance Lead will help shape the future of our business, refining our core processes & workflows driven by data.
What you’ll do:
- Own Operations Strategy: define & execute a roadmap to help us scale efficiently — alongside our CEO and Head of Product.
- Lead Finance Functions: including accounting, budgeting, quarterly royalty payments, insurance, payroll & benefits, and tax payments.
- Refine Core Operational Processes: including fulfillment, quality assurance, compliance, inventory management, with a focus on timely & accurate delivery, cost savings efficiency, and an A+ customer experience — alongside Fulfillment Lead & Head of Product.
- Improve Unit Economics & Working Capital Flywheels: exploring inventory turns, economies of scale, payment terms, financing, and more.
- Vendor & Partner Management: work with our Sales & Fulfillment teams to onboard new retail partners, with an eye towards long-term commercial & operational success.
- Drive Data-Driven Decisions: refine & monitor key metrics in sales & operations, analyze data, and identify bottlenecks.
- Build & Lead a Team: as we grow, help recruit, hire, and develop high-performing operations & finance teams (in-house & external).
You’re a perfect fit if you are:
- A builder: compelled to build elegant technology systems & processes that undergird physical product operations.
- Fluent with Airtable: our data source for operations, including inventory & order management; customer data; and royalty reporting to licensors. Experienced architecting new bases, building dashboards / interfaces, and configuring automations.
- Comfortable with our broader core systems: Shopify, Quickbooks, HubSpot, Notion, Slack, Google Drive, as well as new, rapidly developing AI tools.
- A rigorous quantitative thinker: familiar with three-sheet financial statements, unit economic models, with an interest in refining this skill set further.
- A self-guided learner: with a passion for data, technology, and product management.
- A clear & punctual communicator: both verbally & in writing (both prose & presentations)
- Excited to be in the office: as most of our core operational work occurs in our Dumbo HQ.
About Us
Apply is a Brooklyn-based brand & creative studio that makes extraordinary stickers.
We’re obsessed with the creative & commercial possibilities of stickers, enabling anyone to personalize the things they love & use every day. We’re reimagining this loved global product category with our exceptional creative team, alongside iconic licensing partners – from Andy Warhol to Snoopy.
Our products are found at some the world’s best retailers such as REI, Blick, MoMA Design Store, The Broad, among hundreds of other museum stores, bookstores, and speciality shops. Our investors include an extraordinary group of leaders in technology, media, fine art, and retail: Scott Belsky (CSO, Adobe), Jen Rubio (Founder and CEO, Away), and Michael Lynton (Chairman, Snap), among others.
Most importantly, we’re just getting started & are growing our team to build on our success as a profitable, category-defining retail brand.
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