Vesta
51 - 200 employees
Founded 2008
🏠 Real Estate
🛒 Retail
🛍️ eCommerce
💰 Convertible Note on 2017-04
Real Estate • Retail • eCommerce
Vesta is a luxury interior design and staging company that offers an all-in-one solution for real estate professionals, design trades, and homeowners. Known as the largest luxury home staging firm in the U. S. , Vesta provides full-scale interior design services, expert home staging, custom furniture production, and devoted customer support. They are involved in projects such as residential interior design, furniture rental, and manufacturing. The company prides itself on blending high-style design with real-life comfort, emphasizing style, practicality, and customer satisfaction.
Chief Merchandising – Product Development Officer
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Vesta
51 - 200 employees
Founded 2008
🏠 Real Estate
🛒 Retail
🛍️ eCommerce
💰 Convertible Note on 2017-04
Real Estate • Retail • eCommerce
Vesta is a luxury interior design and staging company that offers an all-in-one solution for real estate professionals, design trades, and homeowners. Known as the largest luxury home staging firm in the U. S. , Vesta provides full-scale interior design services, expert home staging, custom furniture production, and devoted customer support. They are involved in projects such as residential interior design, furniture rental, and manufacturing. The company prides itself on blending high-style design with real-life comfort, emphasizing style, practicality, and customer satisfaction.
📋 Description
• Define and lead the company-wide merchandising strategy for all categories across all business channels, including home staging, direct-to-consumer retail, and hospitality/contract. • Build and oversee Buying team with category specific Buyers responsible for product development and off the shelf growth channels for their respective categories • Balance long-term proprietary product development initiatives with the need for building and scaling near-term/just in time vendor partnerships • Build a cohesive long-term product roadmap that aligns brand vision, customer demand, financial objectives, and operational scalability. • Develop category strategies that balance core replenishment programs with new product innovation and proprietary design initiatives. • Establish disciplined assortment architecture, pricing strategies, & lifecycle planning across all home categories. • Direct global sourcing and manufacturing to develop strategic vendor partnerships and scalable production capabilities. • Drive the evolution of Vesta’s product assortment into a distinctive proprietary collection that strengthens brand recognition and market positioning. • Partner closely with founders to shape the long-term creative and commercial vision of the brand through product leadership. • Serve as a key steward of the Vesta aesthetic, ensuring consistency and elevation across all product categories, collections, and customer touchpoints. • Lead the development of product narratives and collection strategies that reinforce the brand’s positioning within the premium staging and home furnishings markets. • Partner cross-functionally with sales, operations, and marketing teams to ensure alignment between product vision, visual presentation, customer experience, and commercial objectives. • Identify emerging market trends, whitespace opportunities, and evolving customer preferences to inform future product direction and category expansion. • Champion a product point of view that balances timeless design, market relevance, operational practicality, and long-term asset performance. • Drive a culture of product excellence rooted in craftsmanship, refinement, and disciplined execution. • Establish the long-term product development and design roadmap, ensuring alignment between design innovation, merchandising strategy, sourcing capabilities, operational feasibility, and financial objectives. • Provide executive leadership and strategic oversight over all product development efforts ensuring successful product execution, quality assurance, optimal vendor management, targeted financial objectives, and long-term business scalability. • Lead and develop the VP of Product Development and associated teams, building the organizational capabilities, talent, and processes required to support the company’s growth objectives. • Oversee internal and contract-based design teams to ensure design sits at the heart of Vesta’s offering and that product reflects Vesta’s aesthetic vision, quality standards, craftsmanship expectations, and client experience objectives • Build and scale high-performing teams across Merchandising, Product Development, and Product Design functions. • Recruit, mentor, and develop organizational talent capable of supporting aggressive business growth and increasing operational complexity. • Partner closely with founders and cross-functional leaders in inventory, logistics, and sales to establish scalable processes, operational discipline, and organizational infrastructure across the business. • Partner cross-functionally with inventory planning, logistics, and operations teams to improve forecasting, inventory productivity, replenishment systems, and supply chain performance. • Partner closely with Creative Directors to understand market-specific client needs and identify product solutions that support successful project outcomes. • Foster a culture that balances creativity, accountability, agility, collaboration, and measurable business impact • Develop strategies that maximize product utilization, inventory productivity, customer conversion, and long-term asset performance. • Drive financial performance through improved gross margins, strategic assortment planning, inventory efficiency, and proprietary product growth. • Partner with sales leadership to increase furniture attachment rates and product conversion from staged homes to end consumers. • Oversee a product strategy that recognizes inventory not only as merchandise, but as a revenue-generating asset deployed across multiple business channels. • Implement frameworks that evaluate lifecycle profitability, per-piece ROI, utilization rates, repair costs, downtime, and long-term asset productivity. • Utilize and help define data inputs, analytics, and customer insights to inform merchandising decisions and identify growth opportunities across channels.
🎯 Requirements
• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience within premium or luxury home furnishings, interiors, retail, hospitality, or vertically integrated consumer brands. • Significant executive-level experience overseeing merchandising, product development, sourcing, and category management functions. • Strong expertise in global manufacturing and sourcing • Proven track record developing and scaling proprietary product programs within high-growth environments. • Strong understanding of product lifecycle management, inventory strategy, margin optimization, and operational infrastructure. • Demonstrated ability to build high-performing teams and scalable organizational processes. • Exceptional leadership, communication, negotiation, and cross-functional collaboration skills. • Highly refined aesthetic sensibility paired with strong commercial and operational acumen. • Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to operate strategically while remaining deeply execution-oriented.
🏖️ Benefits
• Paid Time Off (PTO) • 401k • Medical Insurance • Dental Insurance • Vision Insurance • Employer-covered Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability (LTD) plans (with Medical Insurance election)
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