Assistant Category Merchandising Manager (Super Day)

About Us:

Perpay is a certified B Corp and Philadelphia’s most impactful growth-stage startup. We are driven by a mission to significantly improve the financial stability of everyday Americans. For the past decade, we have established strong product-market fit and a profitable, efficient operating model across a suite of products, positioning Perpay as the premier financial partner for consumers with subprime credit.

With over 500,000 customers who have utilized more than $1 billion in spending power, we are at a pivotal moment. We are scaling our operations, building new offerings, and deepening our impact. We are looking for teammates eager to join us on this journey.

Our venture partners include First Round Capital and L Catterton.

Products we’ve built to make an impact:

• Perpay Marketplace: Combines interest-free payments and modern e-commerce to reduce cost of ownership and promote healthy repayment behavior.
• Perpay : Leverages Marketplace repayment history to help members monitor and build credit with all 3 credit bureaus.
• Perpay Credit Card: Expands access to the flexibility and benefits of a World Mastercard by removing common barriers like high security deposits and low approval odds.

Our team thrives on in-person collaboration, operating from our unique center-city Philadelphia office. This comfortable "home away from home" space offers river views and fosters rapid product development, strong relationships, and career growth. The energy from achieving big wins is palpable here. While we primarily work in the office, we offer sensible flexibility for personal needs, such as sick children or urgent errands, and coordinate official remote weeks around major holidays. If you are passionate about a meaningful mission, collaboration, equity, and generous perks, Perpay is the best place to be in Philadelphia right now.

This is a 🚀 Super Day Hiring Event 🚀 specific job posting.

What is Super Day?

It's an accelerated hiring event that will give recent graduates the unique opportunity to land this role in just one day! We will host it January 5th at Perpay HQ in Philadelphia. Selected candidates will tour the office, meet the team, and experience a fast-tracked interview process. Attendance is invite-only and applicants must complete a pre-work video challenge to be considered. Launch your career by applying below! *Application Deadline: December 22nd*

The Role: Learn the craft, grow with our marketplace

We’re expanding into new product categories and looking for an Assistant Category Manager eager to learn retail fundamentals in a data-driven environment. In this entry-level role, you’ll support Category Managers on merchandising projects: sourcing and onboarding vendors, building assortments, cleaning and maintaining product data, monitoring pricing and availability, and helping improve total cost of ownership (TCO) for our customers. You’ll work closely with your manager, check in frequently, and take on projects with greater autonomy as you ramp—progressing toward managing your own portfolio of vendors and product categories over time.

Our greatest strength is our people and we’d love for you to be one of them!

What You’ll Do

• Support assortment growth: Help research whitespace, comparison shop, and assist in launching 1,000 new SKUs in your first year (ownership grows with experience).
• Price & availability hygiene: Support cost/retail updates, flag pricing issues, and track inventory availability across suppliers; escalate anomalies quickly.
• Vendor meeting support: Partner with Category Managers to plan and communicate agendas, prepare supporting materials, compile sales reports and other marketplace/vendor data as assigned, record action items, and follow up to keep tasks moving.
• Represent Perpay externally: Attend trade shows to pitch our marketplace and credit-building value prop to potential vendor partners
• Reporting & analysis: Pull weekly sales, margin, and inventory availability reports; build lightweight dashboards and summaries that convert data into next steps for the team.
• Cross-functional coordination: Work with Product, Analytics, Operations, and Marketing to improve customer experience.
• Process improvements: Leverage AI and build standard operating procedures that make our team faster and more accurate.

Note: This role supports categories and projects vs. owning a dedicated category on day one. As you develop, you’ll earn autonomy on a defined portfolio of vendors/product categories

Why You’ll Love This Role

• Apprenticeship model: Hands-on mentorship from experienced Category Managers and exposure to all marketplace processes.
• Meaningful impact early: Your work will directly improve product pricing, inventory availability, and customer experience for one of the fastest growing ecommerce platforms in the industry.
• Clear growth path: Grow into a future category management roles as you demonstrate consistency, judgment, and results

What You’ll Bring

• Recent college graduate (or equivalent experience); internships or campus leadership in retail, analytics, e-commerce, or operations are a plus.
• Analytical chops: Comfortable in Excel/Sheets (VLOOKUP/INDEX-MATCH, pivot tables); SQL familiarity is a plus but not required.
• AI-first approach to problem solving: Leveraging technology to drive improvements in both the quality and quantity of your impact
• Operational discipline: Strong organization, attention to detail, and follow-through—especially with repetitive data tasks.
• Communication & collaboration: Clear written notes, crisp updates, and a helpful, proactive attitude with teammates and vendors.
• Owner’s mindset: Curiosity to learn, resilience when data is messy, and the drive continuously improve
• Mission fit: Passion for Perpay’s social mission and the idea of fintech-enabled retail that helps people build credit.

What We’ll Bring to Full-time Team Members:

• Meaningful compensation and equity
• Premium medical benefits (fully paid base plan, and very reasonable premium for the buy-up option)
• 4% employer 401k match
• Unlimited PTO policy
• ​​Remote weeks around major holidays extra holiday on weekends like MDW and LDW
• High quality catered lunch by local chefs, 3 days / week
• Gym subsidy
• Paid cell phone plan
• Student loan repayment program
• Relocation assistance
• Generous team member discounts

This is not a remote opportunity; it is 100% onsite (#LI-Onsite) (#LI-TH1) (#LI-AK1)

Perpay is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity in all its forms and are committed to creating an inclusive environment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, sex (including pregnancy), marital status, political affiliation, age, veteran status, disability status or other non-merit factor. Please contact us at careers@perpay.com to request accommodation.