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Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Engineer
Company Overview
At Nixon, it is through life’s adventures where inspiration and collaboration combine and take shape to become products we create. We are proud of more than 20 years of history, our roots and heritage while steadily aspiring to rise to new horizons, develop and grow our brand and team of ridiculously talented individuals further. Working for Nixon means being part of an international, dynamic and passionate group of people, multi-lingual, multi-channel and multi-category. We are as diverse as the environment we operate in, stretching all the way from our origins in the action sports industry up to the lifestyle market, electronics and premium watchmaking. We believe that passion drives performance and that perfection comes from always giving your best. We care about the little things while thinking big.
General Responsibilities
The e-commerce SQA engineer has a quality vision in driving the strategy and execution across engineering tracks to consistently deliver high-quality software. This role requires continuous improvement and documentation of Software Quality Assurance processes and practices, assuring a high level of system readiness prior to the production of our Digital Customer Experience. This role works cross-functionally to develop and execute manual and automated tests to ensure all aspects of the sites and connects to many areas of the business including IT, Digital Marketing and Inventory/Planning. In addition to QA role, he/she will be the Scrum Master for the team and guide them on self-organization. He/she will report to the Director of Web Development & Architecture and will work side by side with other Web Developers, Content Developers, and QA Engineering; he/she will be part of the full agile development lifecycle. He/she will work at a global level including, but not limited to the flagship sites Nixon.com and AdidasWatches.com (across all regions, globally) to test solutions.
The e-commerce SQA engineer position is responsible for conducting tests before the release to ensure software runs smoothly (hence, creating a fantastic customer experience) and meets stakeholder requirements while maintaining the highest quality standards. He/she will collaborate with product owners and stakeholders, establish goals and set clear expectations, prioritize and bring a finished product across the finish line. He/she should have a strong sense of ownership and accountability with a commitment to delivering high-quality software that balances technical and business goals. They will facilitate discussion, decision making, conflict resolution and schedule/conduct scrum ceremonies. Suitable candidates should have excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to communicate with a variety of audiences at all levels. Ability to work under pressure and troubleshoot is an essential part of this role and invigorates passion for aligning quality goals to business goals.
Essential Functions & Responsibilities
- Perform analysis of business requirements for accuracy, completeness, ambiguity, testability and provide timely feedback to establish acceptance criteria in an agile methodology.
- Partner with stakeholders, creative and development team to understand desired functionality for validating customer experience across browsers and operating systems.
- Communicate with stakeholders for clarifications, approvals, priority, and scheduling for all defect remediation tasks.
- Define the scope of testing, approach, risks, and assumptions to validate the solution is built as per specification.
- Create and maintain QA schedule to track the progress of deliverables to as per deadlines.
- Create project based well-structured test plans and test cases to cover a multitude of simple and complex scenarios.
- Create and maintain regression testing plans and tools.
- Conduct a black box, positive and negative scenarios to test a feature based on functional requirements.
- Perform manual testing of all test cases and work towards automation.
- Setup automated testing infrastructure and increase coverage of regression test cases iteratively.
- Create test data for work within Salesforce Commerce Cloud Business Manager.
- Identify and improve testing strategy to enhance the overall software quality efforts.
- Establish continuous ADA compliance monitoring and sprint-based site regression.
- Document and report defect systematically and manage defects through various stages of the development cycle.
- Establish effective communication throughout all testing processes with key team members and tracks progress detailed reports.
- Support maintenance and rollouts during extended hours when required.
- Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies.
- Partner with the technical architect to support building integration testing as part of CI/CD.
- Coach development team and stakeholders in the SQA process and mentor best practices.
- Be the scrum master for the team.
- Facilitate his team for better creativity and tries to improve the efficiency of the development team.
- Responsible for managing the scrum process with the coordination of scrum team in Agile methodology while help to remove the impediments for the scrum team.
- Arranged daily stand-up meetings, facilitate meetings, schedule meetings, demo and decision-making processes in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process.
- Helps product owner to make the product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for the next sprint.
- Responsible to Conduct retrospective meetings.
- Organizes and facilitates the sprint planning meeting.
Adjacencies & Collaboration Partners
- Web Dev Team
- Site Managers
- Content Manager
- IT Team
- Creative Studio
- Digital Marketing
Education & Experience Requirements
- BA in IT Systems or similar industry certification.
- Hands-on experience with automated testing tools like Selenium or open-source toolset.
- Basic knowledge of HTML/CSS/JS
- Prefer to have a working knowledge of Salesforce Commerce Cloud Business Manager.
- Have strong familiarity with web technologies, browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices and its limitations.
- Knowledge of efficient methodologies for multi-device, multi-browser testing.
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.
- Have strong experience with performance and load testing.
- Understanding of all eCommerce functions including but not limited to: Email integration, Payment Systems, Google Analytics, A/B Testing Platforms, Catalog, Content, Promotions, Checkout and Order Flow.
- Understanding of Technical holiday readiness and peak period sales needs.
- Have a keen eye for IT system process and the ability to mimic user flow and document processes with a clear explanation of details.
- Attention to detail and accuracy for project execution and manage and prioritize against aggressive deadlines.
- Experience with web-based PM tools such as Jira and Basecamp is a plus.
- Have a strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes.
- Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans, test cases, requirement traceability matrix, and test summary reports.
Join the Nixon Team! Forward resumes to ecom_jobs@nixon.com and include eCommerce Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Engineer in the subject line. In addition please fill in this questionnaire SQA Questionnaire as early as possible. Thank You!
Position based in California, USA. Due to the volume of resumes, we cannot respond to everyone personally, but we do thank you for your interest and for reaching out to Nixon.
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eCommerce Site Coordinator
Company Overview
Nixon is California’s iconic watch and accessories brand, born from action sports culture and always pushing the never been done. As a company we are creative, we are ambitious, we take risks. Above all, we want to build great product with the world’s youth as our audience. We collaborate with the best in the business: brands, athletes, retailers, causes. People who share our mindset and our belief that we can make an impact, one detail at a time.
Position Summary
The eComm Site Coordinator helps support marketing & eCommerce plans and drive online sales by assuring that Nixon’s customers always receive the best online experience via the latest campaign assets and an accurate product assortment and product assets. This position is responsible for product validation, content management, digital asset management, file naming convention, accuracy of META data, ADA reader compliance and page/folder and category structures in the eCommerce and content platforms. This position also supports the Web Development team in loading interactive materials and providing front-end QA validation of regular website content updates. He/she will further support the broader eCommerce team in validating content updates and helping to QA new content. The nature of content is its inherent complexity – this role requires medium proficiency in HTML and CSS skills as an adjacent resource to full-stack web developers.
Essential Functions and Key Responsibilities
- Content & Asset Management - Works closely with creative, site managers, developers and other cross-functional departments to place web assets online across all international regions for Nixon’s websites, on-time, and without error.
- Coordinates with SEO resources to assure proper META information, alt-tags on all assets, category-level copy, seasonal product copy updates, landing pages, etc.
- Assure that 301 redirects are in place for deprecated pages.
- Global asset management - Deploys copy, imagery and rich media in multiple languages.
- ADA Compliance - Validates, reports and mitigates issues with all site updates.
- Follows and updates documentation surrounding existing processes for seasonal updates, promotional execution and product movement.
- Maintains integrity of product image guidelines across the website(s).
- Loads images, video and AR assets.
- Product Categorization – supports Merchandiser in all aspects of category creation, product tagging and related tasks.
- Supports Site Managers with execution of A/B Tests, polling and surveys.
- Promotions Management – sets up codes for emails, display marketing, discount and shipping offers as needed throughout the year.
- Responsible for knowing the strategic plan surrounding calendared content updates: content related tasks, milestones and deadlines.
- Retail/Dealer Data Management - acts as the central resource for store locator data updates/additions.
- Custom Program – trains up on and executes seasonal data/model updates to the online customization tools.
- Loyalty Program – supports in the sourcing of creative assets and copy, setup of loyalty specific promotions and ad hoc requests as needed.
- User Generated Content – manages the curation and onsite updates of any social content that is sourced via our marketing team or social media platforms. (ex. Pixlee)
- Customer Insights – works with members of the CS team on a monthly basis to review customer feedback via Ratings & Reviews / Q&A / Linc that could lead to onsite improvements.
Education & Technical Skills
- 2+ years of experience working with digital assets on a digital-focused team with hands-on tactical experience.
- Experience working in content management tools.
- Understanding of editing tools for cropping, sizing and batch processing images.
- Understanding of mid-level HTML and CSS in order to format content (free-form and structured blocks), blog posts and pages.
- Has worked with workflow and collaboration tools such as Asana, Jira or Basecamp.
- Understanding of the digital asset creation process from wireframes to design to development, QA, and deployment.
- Familiarity with e-Commerce platforms preferred (Demandware/SFCC a plus).
- High competency with file manipulation to quickly rename, assort and organize files.
- Familiarity with email, content, and marketing calendars.
- Optional: Experience with SEO, the fundamentals of META data and rich text.
- Optional: Experience working with vendors and 3rd party tool developers.
- Optional: Understanding of the drivers of site speed (ex: image & video sizes).
Key Competencies
- Strong communication (written and verbal), organization, and presentations skills.
- Ability to take on multiple challenges across various disciplines.
- Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills.
- Customer-centric thought process.
- Positive and collaborative attitude.
- Ability to recognize opportunities for more creative thinking within a project.
- Willingness to follow seasonal and go-to-market timelines and workflows and processes.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and self-manage personal deadlines.
Join the Nixon Team! Forward resumes to ecom_jobs@nixon.com and include eCommerce Site Coordinator in the subject line. Thank You!
Position based in California, USA. Due to the volume of resumes, we cannot respond to everyone personally, but we do thank you for your interest and for reaching out to Nixon.
Marketing
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Data Analyst / Data Scientist
Company Overview
Nixon is California’s iconic watch and accessories brand, born from action sports culture and always pushing the never been done. As a company we are creative, we are ambitious, we take risks. Above all, we want to build great product with the world’s youth as our audience. We collaborate with the best in the business: brands, athletes, retailers, causes. People who share our mindset and our belief that we can make an impact, one detail at a time.
Position Summary
The Data Analyst / Data Science role is responsible for the development, implementation and execution of the Nixon’s performance data analysis and insights. S/he must operate with an eager, entrepreneurial, innovative mindset and cultivate strong connections within the Nixon global organization.
Working within the Nixon DTC marketing team, this role is responsible for aiding in making data informed decisions across acquisition and retention efforts to enable high business growth goals.
The role will collaborate closely with the Nixon technology, ecommerce, marketplace and marketing teams to align efforts and amplify our data-centric decision making across global digital advertising, email, affiliates, marketplaces, site engagement, merchandising, paid social, and search efforts.
Key Responsibilities & Priorities
- Create and deliver insightful reports and data analysis to key stakeholders across Nixon digital focused teams to ensure data is empowering business decisions.
- Own cross-platform data consolidation and analysis of marketing programs including but not limited to paid search, marketplaces, social media, email marketing, affiliate, site analytics, and testing.
- Maintain and refine marketing performance dashboards, daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly to identify trends, variances and insights from data.
- Ensures ongoing data accuracy and reliability across marketing platforms, and Nixon business data sources.
- Leverage predicative analytics to support demand, forecasting and marketing optimizations for Nixon customer acquisition and retention efforts to meet or exceed pre-defined Nixon business objectives.
- Work closely with marketing team on optimizing campaign frameworks to empower machine learning, platform algorithms, robust marketing data ingestion and effective testing to drive campaign performance to increase automation.
- Be liaison between our technology / development team and marketing leads on building out internal dashboards through leveraging platform APIs, internal data warehousing, and third-party data visualization tools.
- Provide business intelligence by means of statistical modeling and testing to support Nixon Direct-to-Consumer efforts.
- Present data insights and recommendations to key stakeholders on creative, marketing, and ecommerce team leads.
Key Experience Requirements
- Understanding and hands on experience working with data from key marketing platforms including but not limited to Google, Google Analytics, Amazon marketplace, Google Website Optimizer, Bing, Programmatic DSPs, Impact Radius, Awin, ESPs, Facebook, Instagram, and Nixon’s internal CDP.
- Knowledge and experience with primary direct response performance metrics and optimization levers across digital marketing, site analytics and customer data sets to drive incremental business results.
- Ability to work with executive team and strategy leads to develop and refine forecasting and predictive business models.
- Knowledge and experience with RFM segmentation and Customer-Lifetime-Value (CLTV) modeling.
Education & Experience Requirements
- Bachelors or master’s degree in business, mathematics, computer science, statistics or relevant field preferred.
- 3+ years of working with data within digital marketing.
- Experience working with email, social, digital advertising at a direct brand or digital agency.
- Experience in Direct-to-Consumer marketing.
Technical Skills & Experience
- Proficient with MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook)
- Experience with coding language, tools and approaches related to data analysis (such as Python, TensorFlow, Neural Networks, and other relevant technology platforms)
Key Competencies
- Strong passion of data and enjoy finding data-based insights
- Solid understanding of direct-to-consumer businesses as well as digital marketing
- Strong organizational, time management, and prioritizing skills
- Strong written, verbal and presentation skills
- Ability to drive project in a complex multi-stakeholder environment
- Results-driven, goal-oriented
- Problem solving, critical thinking
- Organized, detail-oriented
- Flexibility and adaptability to work with changing priorities, evolving responsibilities and scope of work in a rapidly growing company
- Team-oriented and collaborative
- Effective interpersonal skills
Join the Nixon Team! Forward resumes to ecom_jobs@nixon.com and include Data Analyst / Data Scientist in the subject line. Thank You!
Position based in California, USA. Due to the volume of resumes, we cannot respond to everyone personally, but we do thank you for your interest and for reaching out to Nixon.
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Affiliate Manager
Company Overview
Nixon is California’s iconic watch and accessories brand, born from action sports culture and always pushing the never been done. As a company we are creative, we are ambitious, we take risks. Above all, we want to build great product with the world’s youth as our audience. We collaborate with the best in the business: brands, athletes, retailers, causes. People who share our mindset and our belief that we can make an impact, one detail at a time.
Position Summary
The Affiliate Manager is responsible for the strategy, development, implementation and execution of the Nixon’s global affiliate channel efforts. S/he must operate with an eager, entrepreneurial, innovative mindset and cultivate strong connections within the Nixon global organization.
Working within the digital marketing team, this role is responsible for identifying the right affiliate partners to align with Nixon’s products to increase new customer acquisition across the key regions for Nixon; Australia, North America and Europe.
The role will collaborate closely with the Nixon DTC and marketing teams to align to overall Nixon business objectives.
Core Duties
- Developing and scaling Nixon’s North America and international affiliate programs to maximize ROI, some international expansion will be built from the ground up.
- Vetting partnerships and opportunities to maximize ROI.
- Forecasting, reconciliation and management of budgets for affiliate programs.
- Evaluations of key-performance-indicators (KPIs) daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly to meet or exceed business objectives.
- Tracking, optimizations and analysis of global affiliate programs.
- Work with cross functional marketing teams and departments within Nixon to integrate affiliate marketing executions.
- Develop clear understanding of Nixon brand and proper alignment to Affiliate partners to maintain strong brand position within market.
- Orchestrate affiliate programs with overall Nixon Go-To-Market plans and seasonal business priorities.
- Stay apprised of industry trends, advancements and best practices to be the internal resource and thought leader for everything affiliate marketing.
- Manage ongoing partnership with Impact Radius and associated platform features.
Key Experience Requirements
- Proven track record of cultivating strong working relationships across affiliate partners and publishers for fashion brands within fashion, watch experience a plus.
- Leverage industry expertise and previous publisher experience to effectively negotiate and build long term partnerships for Nixon.
- Ability to work both “in the weeds” and strategically to push affiliate program to world-class levels.
- Experience in the management of daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly channel budgets, forecasting, invoicing/payouts and reconciliation of publisher’s commission structures and payouts.
- Ability to analyze and interrupt performance data + Nixon business data to develop insights and action plans to maximize investments that includes identifying variances in performance and proactive forecasting of results.
- Understanding of international affiliate marketing best practices and unique characteristics of global programs, specifically North America, Europe, and Australia.
- Development of segmented / targeted offers to entice publishers.
Education & Experience Requirements
- Bachelors or master’s degree in business, marketing, or relevant field preferred.
- 3+ years of managing affiliate programs for a brand or with a digital agency.
- Experience working with Impact Radius or similar platform.
- Experience with international affiliate management.
- Data analysis and performance modeling.
- Experience in the fashion industry executing affiliate programs, watch experience is a plus
Technical Skills & Experience
- Proficient with MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook).
- Experience with Impact Radius and Awin for affiliate campaign management.
Key Competencies
- Solid understanding of direct-to-consumer businesses as well as digital marketing.
- Strong organizational, time management, and prioritizing skills.
- Strong written, verbal and presentation skills.
- Ability to drive project in a complex multi-stakeholder environment.
- Results-driven, goal-oriented.
- Problem solving, critical thinking.
- Organized, detail-oriented.
- Flexibility and adaptability to work with changing priorities, evolving responsibilities and scope of work in a rapidly growing company.
- Team-oriented and collaborative.
- Effective interpersonal skills.
Join the Nixon Team! Forward resumes to ecom_jobs@nixon.com and include Affiliate Manager in the subject line. Thank You!
Position based in California, USA. Due to the volume of resumes, we cannot respond to everyone personally, but we do thank you for your interest and for reaching out to Nixon.
Operations & Planning
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Senior Product Merchandiser
Company Overview
Founded in 1998, Nixon is California’s iconic watch and accessories brand, born from action sports culture and always pushing the never been done. As a company we are creative, we are ambitious, we take risks. Above all, we want to build great product with the world’s youth as our audience. We collaborate with the best in the business: brands, athletes, retailers and causes. People who share our mindset and our belief that we can make an impact, one detail at a time.
Position Summary
The Sr. Product Merchandiser is responsible for developing and driving line assortment plans and merchandising strategies that result in a compelling, consistent customer experience in all our channels: wholesale (domestic and international) and direct-to-consumer (ecommerce and retail) to achieve company strategic and financial goals.
The Sr. Product Merchandiser is laser-focused on the ideal product assortment for all channels of trade and distribution. S/he will have an obsessive eye on the details around the size of each market segment, potential opportunities and assess the relevant competitive set. The key goals are to provide product category management that is on-trend, connected to end-consumer needs and optimizes SKU productivity – all with the objective of increasing the demand signal for the brand, growing the categories in which Nixon trades and building brand strength and equity in all channels and regions. S/he will conduct rigorous analysis, develop key learnings, share customer feedback, generate relevant market segment insights and relevant fashion trends to inform in-season and future direct product merchandising strategies and initiatives to Product teams. S/he will collaborate with cross functional teams to identify merchandising opportunities, key product concepts, product messages and delivery flow to ensure stories come to life in a visually compelling and cohesive way. The position provides strong leadership and positively contributes to the Nixon’s high performing culture by inspiring the team to be customer-focused, responsive, growth-minded and innovative.
Essential Functions & Responsibilities
Product Assortment Planning & Merchandise Methodologies- Support the VPs of Product to create seasonal and annual product line plans.
- Lead seasonal product performance analysis at the divisional, category, class and item level across channels.
- Continually dive deep into understanding market size, opportunity and the competitive set in all relevant Nixon product categories.
- Empower and embody the Merchant’s Mindset.
- Conduct SWOT analysis seasonally and partner with the VP’s of Wholesale Sales, DTC & Marketing to ensure design & creative alignment as well as to define & execute go-to-market strategy & messaging, helping the team understand the product positioning.
- In partnership with the VP’s of Wholesale Sales, DTC & Marketing, develop the seasonal product Go-To-Market calendar that aligns with the annual revenue goals & objectives.
- Prepare and manage master line plans and cost sheets inclusive of initial forecasts and going-in margins, as well as provide product rankings to planning teams to support inventory positions for direct channels.
- Evaluate and enhance Nixon’s merchandising methodology and line planning protocol to ensure channel best practices are employed.
- Identify channel specific KPI’s and reporting metrics needed to monitor and evaluate business.
- Identify, pitch and gain approval for any needed in-season or future merchandise mix adjustments or opportunities.
- Present seasonal merch strategies to cross functional teams.
- Build style/sku assortment plans for wholesale, DTC and retail stores based on hindsight and forward-looking opportunities, and conduct assortment plan reviews and product turnover meetings for key stakeholders prior to line launches (including initial review with exec team).
- Provide input and communicate customer product needs to Design and Merchandising on overall line assortment and channel exclusive opportunities.
- Liaise with Marketing to conceptualize seasonal stories, spread layouts, shopping guides and product stories, including providing Visual Merchandising and Marketing teams with all relevant product information for catalog, print ads, editorial, and e-commerce presentation.
- Partner with regional managers on regional and local based assortments as needed, while maintaining a global product assortment.
- Develop a strong working knowledge of Nixon’s target consumer to help inform strategic product direction.
- Conduct ongoing market research, competitive brand benchmarking, product performance analysis.
- Solicit, gather, analyze and interpret feedback from customer through hindsight studies, store visits, retail staff, inventory planning, customer reviews and creative/marketing team.
- Participate in customer focus group sessions.
- Identify broader activity/market trends to explain business and to inform initiative development, assortment and business direction.
- Demonstrate a point of view about the customer, consumer behaviors and product business opportunities.
- Actively engage and proactively communicate with colleagues across the management and leadership teams.
- Promote a healthy, collaborative, high performing work environment.
- Foster and build strong working relationships with cross-functional team members.
- Ability to coach, mentor and motivate others.
- Be the voice to ensure the customer experience is optimized.
- Lead, motivate, supervise and develop direct report(s) as assigned.
Education & Experience
- 8+ years of experience in Buying, Merchandising, and/or Product Line Management in the consumer hardgoods and/or softgoods industry.
- 3-5 years of direct (eCommerce, catalog, retail) merchandising experience preferred.
- Minimum of 3 years of supervisory experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Fashion or Retail Merchandising highly preferred.
- Knowledge and experience in hard goods and apparel product creation and go-to-market processes.
- Proven track record in developing assortments that result in meeting/exceeding financial targets.
Technical Skills & Experience
- Merchandising expertise, including data collection, analysis and interpretation in tandem with understanding the customer and market and the competitive landscape.
- Proven ability to manage, interpret and report on financial metrics such as margin, style (SKU) productivity.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suites, including MS Outlook, Word and Excel.
- Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables.
- Adobe Creative Suites.
- Centric or other PLM program.
Key Competencies
- Leadership: An ability to guide or direct others toward a specific goal or end; resolves employee issues and increases employee performance and productivity; challenges the process by searching for opportunities to change, grow, innovate and improve the company; enables others to act by fostering collaboration and promoting cooperative goals; inspires shared vision and demonstrates core Nixon values; encourages the heart by recognizing individual and team contributions and accomplishments; inspires others to enable motivated, high-performing teams.
- Self-Leadership/Self-Directed – Demonstrates an ability to take action and responsibility for personal success and failure; influences events and achieves specific goals; originates actions and works effectively with little supervision, direction, or precedent; initiates process improvements; utilizes self-leadership techniques to communicate with manager and seek and obtain the needed leadership style in order to be effective and engaged in position.
- Detail Oriented – Demonstrates an ability to pay close attention to the details of a document/project; demonstrates a thorough approach to daily tasks.
- Problem Solving – Demonstrates an ability to gather data, analyze data, recommend solutions and follow through on results; ability to research and resolve issues in a timely manner.
- Organization and Planning – Demonstrates an ability to set priorities, coordinate resources, and schedule priorities.
- Managing Multiple Priorities – Demonstrates an ability to simultaneously manage a number of different projects to completion.
- Team Orientation – Demonstrates an ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with others; keeps the company goals and personal integrity of each individual in mind when taking action; willingly assist other employees.
- Flexibility – Demonstrates an ability to adapt to a variety of internal and external circumstances; adapts to changing priorities.
- Verbal and Written Communication – Demonstrates an ability to clearly, concisely and accurately present information verbally in a positive manner and clearly communicate in written format; writes clear, understandable letters, memos and reports.
- Judgment/Decision Making – Demonstrates an ability to gather data from all appropriate sources and make sound judgments and decisions.
- Responsiveness – Demonstrates an ability to respond to urgent issues and items requiring immediate action.
- Rapport Building/Customer Service - Demonstrates an ability to put people at ease and establish trust and credibility; develops good working relationships with others.
- Very strong business and financial acumen.
- Adaptable and flexible.
- Solution-oriented.
- Ability to interpret wisdom from data to inform and develop future direction and strategy.
Every employee is expected to contribute to a positive work environment through professional, respectful and cooperative interactions with co-workers, customers and vendors.
Join the Nixon Team! Forward resumes to opshire@nixon.com
Position based in California, USA. Due to the volume of resumes, we cannot respond to everyone personally, but we do thank you for your interest and for reaching out to Nixon.
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Global Demand Planner
Company Overview
Founded in 1998, Nixon is California’s iconic watch and accessories brand, born from action sports culture and always pushing the never been done. As a company we are creative, we are ambitious, we take risks. Above all, we want to build great product with the world’s youth as our audience. We collaborate with the best in the business: brands, athletes, retailers and causes. People who share our mindset and our belief that we can make an impact, one detail at a time.
Position Summary
The role of the Global Demand Planner is to provide functional expertise and analytics to generate accurate demand forecasts in order to optimize the amount of inventory to be supplied. The goal is to enable the brand’s top line financial targets while maximizing gross margin dollars. The Demand Planner will work collaboratively with the Merch, Production, and Regional and Sales and Direct-to-Consumer (“DTC”) teams to ensure the appropriate supply of inventory to purchase based on demand forecasts. This role is also heavily involved in Nixon’s Sales & Operations processes and is responsible for driving continuous improvement within this function. The Global Demand Planner will proactively identify gaps or excesses in the product inventory and take the appropriate action to prevent either situation from occurring.
Essential Functions & Responsibilities
- Omni-Channel (Wholesale/Ecomm/Retail) sku-level demand planning and forecasting.
- Responsible for collecting, assessing and assisting Global Omni demand needs from each region and sales channel.
- Responsible for product-level reporting of performance and analytics for the brand across all channels.
- Responsible for tying purchase plans (receipts) to the budget with the guidance from the VP of Product and in alignment with the VP of Wholesale, VP of DTC as well as the regional general managers.
- Assist with the analytics to support the distribution of supply/inventory in coordination with Production Planning team to meet market demand within all sales channels, with the goal to maximize global sales revenues and gross margin dollars.
- Drives GM% improvements through forecast accuracy and strategic sales and inventory management.
- Collaborate with global regions to balance inventory as needed to reduce inventory excess and obsolescence.
- Play a key role in new product launch process, collaborating with Sales and DTC teams to determine initial supply, communicating timing and collaborating with Sales Operations to align supply with launch timing.
- Analyze and identify demand and supply gaps, take action to resolve and communicate them to the business.
- Achieve or exceed the identified goals and KPI targets, supporting corporate/department goals and KPI targets as directed and defined by leadership.
Education & Experience
- 3-5 years of proven work experience in Inventory Management or Demand and Supply Planning.
- Understanding of market dynamics and sound business judgement.
- Ability to negotiate and sustain networking relationships.
- Highly comfortable with figures and in collecting, analyzing and interpreting data.
- Solid judgement and business acumen with the ability to make good decisions.
- Requires excellent written and oral communication skills across all levels of the organization.
- Able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and with several cross functional teams.
- Ability to collaborate and influence others.
- BS/BA degree in supply chain management or business administration (finance or accounting) or equivalent degree or experience required.
- Knowledge and experience in hard goods and apparel product creation and go-to-market processes.
- Proven track record in managing inventory in complex business structures that result in meeting/exceeding financial targets.
Technical Skills & Experience
- Inventory management expertise, including data collection, analysis and interpretation in tandem with understanding the customer and market and the competitive landscape.
- Proven ability to manage, interpret and report on financial metrics such as margin, forecast reconciliation, inventory purchase plan reconciliation, inventory turns, life cycle management and style (SKU) productivity.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suites, including MS Outlook, Word and Excel.
- Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, a must.
- Familiarity with Demand and Supply Planning, or relevant, software.
- Prior experience working within or implementation of an ERP planning environment preferred.
Key Competencies
- Self-Leadership/Self-Directed – Demonstrates an ability to take action and responsibility for personal success and failure; influences events and achieves specific goals; originates actions and works effectively with little supervision, direction, or precedent; initiates process improvements; utilizes self-leadership techniques to communicate with manager and seek and obtain the needed leadership style in order to be effective and engaged in position.
- Detail Oriented – Demonstrates an ability to pay close attention to the details of a document/project; demonstrates a thorough approach to daily tasks.
- Problem Solving – Demonstrates an ability to gather data, analyze data, recommend solutions and follow through on results; ability to research and resolve issues in a timely manner.
- Organization and Planning – Demonstrates an ability to set priorities, coordinate resources, and schedule priorities.
- Managing Multiple Priorities – Demonstrates an ability to simultaneously manage a number of different projects to completion.
- Team Orientation – Demonstrates an ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with others; keeps the company goals and personal integrity of each individual in mind when taking action; willingly assist other employees.
- Flexibility – Demonstrates an ability to adapt to a variety of internal and external circumstances; adapts to changing priorities.
- Verbal and Written Communication – Demonstrates an ability to clearly, concisely and accurately present information verbally in a positive manner and clearly communicate in written format; writes clear, understandable letters, memos and reports.
- Judgment/Decision Making – Demonstrates an ability to gather data from all appropriate sources and make sound judgments and decisions.
- Responsiveness – Demonstrates an ability to respond to urgent issues and items requiring immediate action.
- Rapport Building/Customer Service - Demonstrates an ability to put people at ease and establish trust and credibility; develops good working relationships with others.
- Very strong business and financial acumen.
- Adaptable, flexible and solution-oriented.
- Ability to interpret wisdom from.
- Ability to interpret wisdom from data to inform and develop future direction and strategy.
Every employee is expected to contribute to a positive work environment through professional, respectful and cooperative interactions with co-workers, customers and vendors.
Join the Nixon Team! Forward resumes to opshire@nixon.com
Position based in California, USA. Due to the volume of resumes, we cannot respond to everyone personally, but we do thank you for your interest and for reaching out to Nixon.
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Senior Digital Designer
Company Overview
Nixon is California’s iconic watch and accessories brand, born from action sports culture and always pushing the never been done. As a company we are creative, we are ambitious, we take risks. Above all, we want to build great product with the world’s youth as our audience. We collaborate with the best in the business: brands, athletes, retailers, causes. People who share our mindset and our belief that we can make an impact, one detail at a time.
We are proud of more than 20+ years of history, our roots and heritage while steadily aspiring to rise up to new horizons, develop and grow our brand and team of ridiculously talented individuals further. Working for Nixon means being part of an international, dynamic and passionate group of people, multi-lingual, multi-channel and multi-category. We are as diverse as the environment we operate in, stretching all the way from our origins in the action sports industry up to the lifestyle market, electronics and premium watchmaking. We believe that passion drives performance and that perfection comes from always giving your best. We care about the little things, while thinking big.
Position Summary
The Senior Digital Designer leads and owns the design and creative look of Nixon.com and email marketing. The Senior Digital Designer implements the brand standards and seasonal direction set by the Creative Director and overseen by the Art Director. He or She is a joint member of the e-Commerce and Creative Studio teams that creates innovative and engaging digital creative across all ecommerce and digital projects.
This position involves sketching, wire framing and designing everything from landing pages and emails to website updates. The individual best suited to this role is ready to roll up their sleeves and do production work as needed to implement the assets being used within their projects. This position will ensure that the consumer journey from email to Nixon.com is a well-designed experience and provide flexible solutions based on company goals, standards and feedback. The ideal candidate should possess inspiring and excellent visual design skills and ability to create brand excitement and engagement, as well as familiarity with common UI design patterns and conventions, and have proven experience with user experience. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication skills in order to provide a design perspective to teammates and project stakeholders. Attention to detail and a strong design sensibility are essential.
This position works closely in conjunction with the Studio Manager and the Graphic & Motion Designer and will have an immediate, consumer-level impact on the Nixon brand. He/she should be passionate about design and providing the best user experience across all devices. He/she ensures efficient and nimble creation of this content working in collaboration with the Studio Manager, Site Managers and Digital Marketers. He/she will ideate, create and produce site and channel-ready creative. As the primary, Senior-level resource, he/she will help implement best practices in UX and UI in collaboration with the cross-functional team. He/she will be responsible for juggling a variety of deliverables in a timely manner to feed a growing and dynamic digital direct to consumer business.
Essential Functions & Responsibilities
- Design and create web ready artwork for weekly web refreshes, site sales, new page templates, email, social, and other digital content.
- Lead in the creation of graphic assets, banners, responsive landing pages, blog content and websites.
- Concept and create digital marketing assets for email and support paid advertising efforts based on a creative brief provided by marketing, which are aligned with industry best practices and historical performance data.
- Understand and interpret the Nixon brand in the creation of all digital assets.
- Partner with creative colleagues on photography and copy needs for creative assignments.
- Collaborate closely with Sr. Digital Marketing Manager and Digital Specialist in the development of concepts for all digital marketing. Abide by review process and timelines.
- Experience translating data driven testing approaches into creative executions within Nixon brand standards.
- Knowledge and track record of successful audience “connection planning” between digital marketing assets, target audience segments, and site user experience to maximize business objectives.
- Stay abreast of industry best practices, new technologies, and consumer trends.
- Self-manage workload based on deadlines.
- Familiarize and work with email deployment programs (Bronto).
- Work closely with creative team, eComm site managers, digital marketing and other cross-functional resources to achieve brand engagement and achieve performance metrics.
- Design high-fidelity prototypes to communicate design concepts to stakeholders.
- Design mobile-first and mobile-focused whilst handling desktop conversion as well across viewports; ensure that all customer-brand connection points meet both business objectives and customer expectations.
- Multitask and manage multiple small-to-large size projects ensuring all projects are completed with quick turn-around and a high level of attention to detail.
- Assure that each graphic element meets production specifications including: resolution, ADA compliance, color palette (web-safe colors) and web size-optimization/sizing.
- Provides photo editing, retouching and image manipulation skills including sizing, optimization, collage and layering in collaboration with the internal studio team.
- Stays abreast of any industry-wide changes in design philosophy and any new tools and technologies being used for graphic design on the web.
Key Interfaces
Position has significant interaction with many areas of Nixon, necessitating excellent communication, collaboration and relationship-building skills. This role interacts closely with the Creative Studio team, Creative Director, Art Director, Studio Manager, Photographers, Copywriter(s), Site Managers, Content Manager, Digital Marketing Specialist, Sr. Digital Marketing Manager, Dev team and outside development agency as well as other internal members that contribute to ecommerce projects and deliverables.
Education & Experience Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree preferred and/or art school degree; high school diploma required.
- 4+ years of experience in relevant field required.
- Experience working with a direct to consumer eCommerce team and varying web properties.
- A solid understanding of the principles of design and the ability to apply them to complex tasks.
- Creative problem solving, communication skills, and decision-making skills .
- Ability to meet deadlines and work well under pressure .
- A strong aesthetic sense and excellent attention to detail .
- Ability to carry out a concept from start to completion and work independently .
- Multi-tasking: execute more than one design brief at a time .
Technical Knowledge & Skills
- Proficient in design related UI programs. Strong aptitude (5+ years) with Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
- Proficient in UX and/or prototyping tools (ex: Sketch, InVision, Studio, Framer, Adobe XD).
- Strong knowledge and understanding of the roles and limits of web coding technologies such as HTML, Javascript, CSS.
- Experience with helping design and/or build mobile sites and responsive websites.
- Strong project management skills; experience with web-based PM tools such as Basecamp, Asana, etc.
- Preferred: Experience with motion graphics and video editing.
- Must submit portfolio.
Join the Nixon Team! Forward resumes to product.hire@nixon.com
Position based in California, USA. Due to the volume of resumes, we cannot respond to everyone personally, but we do thank you for your interest and for reaching out to Nixon.
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