Category Manager – Sneakers

🕒 February 9

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $120k - $130k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🛒 Procurement

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StockX

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2015

🛍️ eCommerce

🏪 Marketplace

🛒 Retail

💰 $195M Secondary Market on 2021-04

eCommerce • Marketplace • Retail

StockX is an online marketplace that connects buyers and sellers of high-demand consumer products including sneakers, apparel, electronics, and accessories. It is a platform for buying and selling these items where users can place bids or sell them at asking prices. The platform ensures authenticity of the products and includes a wide collection of brands such as Nike, Adidas, and Jordan. StockX's marketplace is designed to operate similarly to a stock market, providing users with real-time market data to make informed purchasing decisions.

📋 Description

• Define and execute the growth strategy for sneakers within the platform • Own category-level performance across supply, engagement, and revenue • Establish quarterly goals, leading indicators, and operating rhythms • Maintain deep, current knowledge of sneaker culture, including: • Key sellers, creators, collectors, and resellers • Sub-segments (hype vs. GRs, vintage, performance, regional markets, etc.) • Drops, releases, brand dynamics, and cultural moments • Pricing dynamics, liquidity, and resale economics • Serve as the internal voice of the sneaker community, informing product, marketing, and platform decisions • Build and own a pipeline of high-impact sneaker sellers, shops, influencers, and creators • Personally recruit and onboard flagship sellers who set the tone for the platform • Develop seller strategies that balance credibility, storytelling, and commerce • Identify and orchestrate sneaker-specific moments, campaigns, and formats that drive engagement and conversion • Partner with Category Marketing to design culturally authentic activations • Experiment with new approaches and iterate quickly based on performance and feedback • Work closely with Account & Partnerships Managers to scale seller acquisition and support • Collaborate with Product and Engineering to shape features and tools that matter to sneaker sellers and buyers • Provide clear, actionable insights from the market to influence roadmap prioritization • Document learnings, frameworks, and best practices that can be reused across future categories • Help define what “great” looks like for category ownership at StockX • Support hiring and onboarding as the sneaker category team grows

🎯 Requirements

• Deeply embedded in sneaker culture — you know the people, platforms, trends, and economics, and you’re already plugged into the ecosystem • 5+ years of experience in category management, partnerships, marketplace growth, brand, or operator roles in sneakers, streetwear, or adjacent ecosystems • Comfortable owning outcomes, not just strategy — you execute, iterate, and adapt • Strong relationship builder with credibility among sellers, creators, and community members • Data-literate and commercially minded — you understand pricing, margins, liquidity, and incentives • Entrepreneurial, scrappy, and energized by building something from the ground up.

🏖️ Benefits

• medical • dental