LA Community & Marketing Manager

Must be located in LA. Please apply by emailing recruiting@shoponpickle.com

Pickle is a rental marketplace. We seek to make fashion more affordable, sustainable, and accessible by enabling people to rent clothes directly from one another right in their city. Our unique peer-to-peer model allows Pickle to have the coolest and freshest fashion out there. And our same-day local courier delivery not only allows our users to find a last minute outfit when they're "in a Pickle", but also helps people avoid fast fashion & shop sustainably! Check out our app and our Instagram.

Position Summary

We are looking for an LA based employee to drive expansion in the LA market. We are looking for someone who is well connected in the LA area to help build out our LA closets and grow the Pickle community. This candidate is someone who is very passionate about Pickle and the fashion space. They will be integral to building relationships with ambassadors, influencers, press, and media. They will be responsible for running marketing campaigns (both digital and in person), hosting community events, and creating strategic partnerships with other LA brands / influencers / event-coordinators.

Hours: Full-time. You can also anticipate supporting evening and weekend events.

Salary: $70-$90K

Requirements

Required

• 3-6 years experience in marketing or community or growth role
• Excellent attention to detail with strong organizational skills
• Ability to multi-task with excellent project follow through and completion
• Problem solver, able to take initiative and work independently to produce quality results
• Experience with design platforms (ideally Canva, but experience with Figma or similar is great as well)
• Experience using GoogleSheets / Excel (we do a lot of tracking across these platforms, so you'll need to be comfortable with these tools, however extensive formula experience is not required)
• Passion for fashion
  
  

Ideal

• Familiarity with rental marketplaces, sharing economy, or similar industries is a plus
• Experience with basic graphic design, video editing, or content creation tools is a plus
• Has experience with email marketing platforms (eg. Customer.io, Mailchimp, Brevo, etc)
• Actively part of LA communities where our target audience spends time
  
  
  

Responsibilities

Influencer Management

Creators love using Pickle, and we love introducing them to our platform! You'll help own this initiative with our LA associate by:

• Conducting weekly outreach to potential influencer partners
• Helping launch new influencer closets on Pickle, including sourcing, uploading and social content creation
• Building strong relationships with these influencers through 1 on 1 calls and coffee chats
• Nurturing influencer relationships by creatively working with them to get Pickle rentals
• Activating with influencers at events
  
  

Events Activations

Events are a critical aspect to our community growth, and a key element of your role will be management and execution of a variety of events. Here's what you'll own:

• Create promotional materials in Canva for event invites socials
• Set up event RSVPs on platforms like Partiful and Posh
• Source attendees through cold-outreach on social media channels, and create email blasts to invite community members
• Draft pre- and post-event outreach emails
• Manage end-to-end event execution, including: location sourcing, invite creation, set-up tear-down; Engage with attendees on-site and post-activation
• Identify ways to amplify events through UGC, word-of-mouth and owned social media
  
  

Email Creation

We engage with our community a lot via email, sharing inspo for what's trending, educating users on what to upload now and inviting them to fun events. You'll help create weekly emails to engage our users. Timely execution of these emails and high attention to detail is key here!

• Contribute ideas and source pieces to curate emails
• Manage the creation execution of multiple emails / week
  
  

Order Fulfillment & Styling

We're an early stage startup and are big on interacting directly with our customers. If they're looking for a rental, we want to make sure they get one! You'll be a critical part of this:

• Monitoring order fulfillment rates and conducting outreach to anyone with order issues
• Provide styling help to people who are looking for a rental, but need some inspo
• Proactive outreach to our user-base to help them with rentals for special occasions (eg. birthdays)
  
  

Ad Hoc Growth Initiatives *these will change based on need, but might include:

• Assisting with the creation of partnership pitch decks
• Conducting outreach to top users or top owners
  
  
  

Benefits

• Healthcare (Medical, Dental, Vision)
• Pickle credits for our employees, we love when the team uses Pickle!
• Work directly with the founders and executive team
• Professional coaching, training, and development
• Grow with the company
• Fun team events and company parties
  
  
  

How to Apply:

We are only reviewing applications that follow this submission process:

Email: recruiting@shoponpickle.com

Subject: NY Community & Events Associate Application

Body: include...

• Your resume
• Your Pickle username (not downloaded yet? Use this link:
• 1-2 bullets on what makes you the most excited about Pickle
• 2-5 bullets on what sets you apart for this role
  
  

Bonus (not required but helpful): If you've created designs in Canva or Figma or for socials, please share some examples!