What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Development & Merchandising – Home Products position at E. Living?
Compensation: $80,000–$90,000 annual salary plus performance bonus and comprehensive benefits.
About the Role
We develop home products—from furniture and lighting to bath, storage, décor, and outdoor essentials—for many of North America's leading retailers. We're looking for someone who enjoys discovering what's missing in the market and turning those opportunities into products customers want to buy.
You'll analyze retail assortments, identify opportunities, create product concepts, and work with suppliers to bring them to market. Success in this role comes from curiosity, commercial instinct, and the ability to communicate ideas visually.
Responsibilities
- Analyze retail assortments, pricing, trends, and merchandising.
- Conduct in-store and online competitive research.
- Identify market opportunities and develop new product concepts.
- Create compelling product concepts, visuals, mockups, and presentations using graphic design and AI tools.
- Define product specifications, materials, and target costs.
- Communicate with suppliers and review product samples.
Qualifications
- 2 years of experience in home products, merchandising, product development, buying, category management, or a related consumer products field.
- Ability to communicate ideas clearly through presentations, mockups, and simple image editing. Photoshop or similar software preferred.
- Regular user of AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar to accelerate research, concept development, and visual communication.
- Exceptional attention to detail and organization
Why Join E. Living?
- Develop products for many of North America's leading retailers.
- Own projects from market opportunity to finished product.
- Build a unique combination of merchandising, market research, AI, and product development skills.
- Work directly with experienced industry leaders in a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment.
- Significant opportunity for growth and increased responsibility as the company continues to expand.
This is an on-site position in New York City. Working directly with physical products is essential to the role, so remote work is not available.
If you can't walk through Target, HomeGoods, Costco, or Crate & Barrel without analyzing the products on the shelves, we'd love to meet you.
Salary : $80,000 - $90,000