# Category Manager - StockX Live

**Company**: StockX
**Location**: Detroit, MI
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $120,000 to $130,000
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Help empower global customers to connect to culture through their passions.

StockX has redefined the global marketplace for culture , where buyers and sellers transact with confidence on an always-on digital exchange. We are building the next frontier of creator-driven, culturally rich commerce that blends excitement, community, expertise, and transaction in one platform.

The Category Manager is a foundational hire tasked with owning the growth and strategic trajectory of a major category. You will serve as the chief operator, strategist, and market voice for your category , identifying opportunity, building pipelines, and driving seller and creator engagement from early stages through scale.

## What You’ll Do

### Category Strategy & Ownership

- Define the strategic vision and growth plan for your category on the platform

- Become a deep expert on the category’s supply landscape, demand drivers, community channels, and competitive dynamics

- Establish metrics and quarterly goals to measure and drive category performance

### Supply & Community Acquisition

- Build a robust pipeline of sellers, creators, influencers, and shops within your category

- Drive outbound outreach, onboarding, and enablement for high-potential sellers

- Cultivate long-term relationships with strategic sellers and community leaders

### Cross-Functional Go-To-Market Execution

- Partner with our Account and Partnerships Managers to scale seller engagement and support

- Collaborate with Category Marketing Managers to architect high-impact launches, moments, and campaigns

- Represent category needs and insights to Product and Engineering to improve seller tools, features, and platform performance

### Category Performance & Analytics

- Use data to diagnose growth opportunities, identify bottlenecks, and optimize playbooks

- Track supply, engagement, retention, and revenue trends and adjust strategies in real time

- Surface actionable insights to Growth leadership and cross-functional stakeholders

### Culture & Community Leadership

- Act as the platform’s representative within your category’s ecosystem

- Engage deeply with community norms, vernacular, and cultural drivers to inform both strategy and execution

- Champion creator and seller needs internally to ensure authentic, category-led growth

## About you

- Experienced GTM / Growth Operator: 5+ years in business development, partnerships, category management, or marketplace growth roles; experience in consumer platforms or two-sided marketplaces preferred

- Strategic Thinker + Doer: Comfortable defining vision while executing in ambiguous, fast-moving environments

- Relationship-Driven: Able to build trust quickly with sellers, creators, and internal partners

- Data Fluent: Makes decisions informed by data and measures what matters

- Community Minded: Understands cultural nuance, category subcultures, and trends that drive engagement

## Nice to Have

- Existing network within the assigned category (e.g., sneaker resellers, influencer communities, boutique shops)

- Marketplace experience across both supply and demand sides

- Experience with creator monetization platforms, community-driven commerce, or enthusiast ecosystems

- Comfort with CRM tools, sales pipelines, analytics dashboards, and seller performance metrics

## Why This Role Matters

As one of the first Category Managers supporting this new commerce initiative, you will:

- Set the playbook for how categories scale on an emerging platform

- Shape how StockX engages sellers, creators, and communities at scale

- Build the foundation of a repeatable, category-centric GTM / Growth engine that expands into new verticals

## Skills

### Required
- strategic planning
- market analysis
- community engagement
- data analysis
- relationship building

### Nice to have
- marketplace experience
- creator monetization platforms
- CRM tools
- sales pipelines
- analytics dashboards

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