Buying + Ecommerce Assistant

An exciting opportunity is available to join our growing bi-coastal luxury home staging and interior design firm located in San Francisco with a second location in NYC. We are currently seeking an exceptionally organized, and highly motivated individual to fill a much-needed Buying Assistant position on our SF team. 

The Buying Assistant’s primary purpose will be to provide creative and administrative support to our Buyer/Designer (while at times offering supplementary administrative and multifaceted support to ecommerce as well). 

Our ideal candidate is an exceptional communicator across all mediums, a fiercely independent self-starter who does not need to wait to be told what to do, someone who can work quickly without skipping over important details, an extremely organized, good-natured, graceful under pressure rock star, who most importantly, has a good sense of humor. ;-)

Ideal Candidate Possesses:

• At least 1 year experience in a fast-paced work environment

• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to ‘self-start’ work independently meet deadlines

• Excellent polished written/verbal communications skills 

• Strong attention to detail and energetic follow-through

• STRONG proficiency in Google Suite 

• Experience in Keynote

• Experience in space planning with SketchUp/CAD is helpful. 

• Knowledge of Trello, Shopify   Quickbooks is a plus

• Knowledge of  IG Shop, FB Shop, Pinterest a plus

• Ability to be flexible willingness to accommodate rapidly-changing schedules a fast-paced calendar 

• Positive attitude GRIT! 

• Interest/passion in interior design/home furnishings is a BIG plus!

Responsibilities Include: 

Buying/Design Asst. Roles & Responsibilities:

• Support orders executed by Buyer to meet stager & client needs within budgets

• Help confirm orders, track & receive product to warehouse, meeting deadlines

• Assist in entering and reconciling purchase orders in Quickbooks 

• Assist in entering all new Inventory Info and Images onto Workflow & Inventory Systems

• Liaise with Marketing/E-Commerce Dept. to source provide shop/product information 

• Design Development/Product Research (sourcing furniture, lighting, fabric, hardware) 

• Assist with design boards/layouts & Client Presentations 

• Assist with measuring, furniture plan layouts, Elevations & Renderings 

Possible E-Commerce Roles & Responsibilities: 

• Enter monitor client data into Email Marketing databases

• Enter all new product info, images, copy, dimensions into Shopify 

• Assist with the updates on the Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest shops 

• Assist with the tracking of E-Commerce SHOP orders via Shopify 

• Assist with updating and maintaining of the studio D website and shop, using WordPress Shopify

• Regularly maintain the photos in Dropbox for staging/design projects 

• Assist with holiday gifting for SF NY clients

• Assist with culture support admin including but not limited to employee birthdays the, holiday party, and corporate events 

Please send COVER LETTER RESUME via email with  "Your Name Buyer Asst" in your subject line.

Starting Pay Range $25 - $30/hr BOE;  30-40 hrs per week (subject to change depending on calendar).

MUST HAVE your own cell phone, vehicle, driver's license clean driving record

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