Retail Catalog Optimization Specialist

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $76k - $82k / year

⏰ Full Time

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VitalSource

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201 - 500 employees

📚 Education

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

Education • eCommerce • SaaS

VitalSource is dedicated to transforming digital learning through innovative educational platforms and tools. The company offers a range of solutions designed to provide affordable and accessible course materials, leveraging technologies like smart content creation, digital storefronts, and seamless integrations. VitalSource serves a diverse client base including academic institutions, faculty, corporate learning, and publishers, with a commitment to improving learning outcomes and user engagement through the use of powerful data analytics and learning science. Their platforms, such as Bookshelf and Intrepid, support a global network that prioritizes equitable access and learning personalization.

📋 Description

• Monitor retail demand signals and catalog health to identify gaps in availability, rights, pricing, metadata, or content files • Develop and maintain dashboards and workflows tracking products entering and exiting retail catalogs • Surface issues impacting visibility, availability, or customer experience • Identify and resolve metadata issues affecting product discoverability, feed delivery, and search placement across Google and retail partners • Optimize metadata to improve onsite search and SEO performance • Coordinate with publishers, providers, and internal teams to secure required rights, pricing, or content • Draft and send targeted outreach to publishers and partners regarding catalog gaps, metadata corrections, and content needs • Partner with Product, Sales, and Customer Success to improve catalog quality and operational efficiency • Develop scalable cataloging standards, monitoring processes, and metadata best practices • Build familiarity with data and inventory flows through the product landscape • Research competitive pricing and identify coverage gaps and new opportunities • Track market trends and surface emerging insights and competitive intelligence • Analyze catalog data to quantify sales opportunities, including cross-sell and upsell patterns

🎯 Requirements

• 2–4 years of experience in catalog operations, ecommerce, publishing, or a related field • Experience working with metadata, ecommerce catalogs, publishing systems, or retail product data • Proficiency with spreadsheets, dashboards, and reporting tools (e.g., Looker) • Strong attention to detail; able to identify patterns and inconsistencies across large datasets • Excellent written communication skills, especially for external partner outreach • Ability to balance operational execution with process improvement and proactive problem-solving • Curiosity and willingness to apply AI tooling as appropriate for the role • Demonstrated ability to learn and grow with current tooling strongly preferred • BA/BS in Marketing, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent experience • Working knowledge of SEO and SEO tools • Working knowledge of Claude or other AI tools • Familiarity with ONIX, publishing metadata, retail feeds, or digital content ecosystems • Salesforce experience • Background in higher education or edtech

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary and a strong variable component • Medical, Vision, Dental, Life, Disability, Critical Illness, Accident, FSA, HSA, ID Protection, Pet and Legal Insurance • 401K match up to 5% • 12 weeks of paid parental leave • Tuition reimbursement program • 4 weeks’ vacation • 12 sick days • 11 company holidays • 3 personal days • Flexible work schedules and remote capabilities (by team) • Casual dress • Fitness challenges and rewards