Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage the brand merchandise team, balancing workloads and distributing merchandise projects based on priorities, capacity, and strategic impact.
- Drive the Brand Merchandise team's motivation and growth, fostering skill development, ownership, and long-term professional development.
- Identify internal and external business needs to define creative direction, project focus, and merchandise strategy.
- Initiate and launch innovative merchandise projects that respond to market trends, cultural signals, and JetBrains’ business objectives.
- Continuously improve workflows and processes to increase efficiency, scalability, and cross-team collaboration.
- Oversee the development and operations of the merchandise store, along with end-to-end production projects from concept to delivery.
- Conduct market and trend research to identify new product ideas, materials, suppliers, and growth opportunities.
- Lead collaborations with external partners, including sourcing, initiating partnerships, negotiating pricing, and coordinating deliverables.
- Create and maintain merchandise guidelines, documentation, and shared knowledge resources to ensure consistency and clarity across teams.
- Manage and monitor project budgets, ensuring cost-effectiveness, transparency, and alignment with business expectations.
- Ensure all merchandise initiatives are strategically aligned with JetBrains’ evolving brand, marketing vision, and long-term goals.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in brand merchandise, creative operations, or marketing project management roles, ideally in a global or tech-driven environment.
- Proven experience leading and scaling teams, with a strong people-first leadership approach.
- A strategic mindset paired with hands-on execution skills – comfortable owning both vision and delivery.
- A solid understanding of production processes, supply chains, vendor management, and merchandising economics.
- Strong project and budget management skills, with the ability to prioritize effectively in a fast-moving environment.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with experience working across functions and with external partners.
- Strong aesthetic judgment, attention to detail, and a deep respect for brand consistency and quality.
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