Please consider working for us. To apply for current openings (listed below), or just to let us know you’re out there and interested in some as yet undiscovered position, shoot over your resume and cover letter, writing sample, portfolio, photo of your cat, favorite tax codes, letter from your doctor, or whatever supporting materials you’d prefer. Lastly, if you could humor us with the following project, you’d make us oh-so-glad: Send a letter, drawing or photo of something that makes you happy at work.

Currently all positions are New York City based.

Poppin Creative Director

Poppin’s Creative Director is responsible for the look and feel of the Poppin brand and directing the creative work to convey that vision across all channels. The Creative Director will be responsible for leading a team of creative professionals across many functions – art direction, photography, graphic design, packaging, digital, and visual merchandising to ensure a cohesive brand experience for the Poppin customer.

Responsibilities:

• Ideation, presentation and execution of branding and marketing materials for product,
  marketing and sales teams
• Provide creative ideas and direction for all photo shoots, campaigns, and creative endeavors
• Direct the creative services team responsible for all customer facing materials
• Provide leadership and direction for graphic, packaging, and web designers
• Oversee the development of creative; combining strategy, interactive, brand design,
  creative content and technology
• Practice brand stewardship to ensure creative deliverables are representative of the
  project goals and brand values

Qualifications:

• Four year degree in fine arts or equivalent
• 10+ years leading the creative direction for an established brand
• 5+ years managerial experience
• Must have a brand appropriate design style and an exquisite sense of creativity,
  design, visuals and typography
• Proficiency with Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint
• Ability to navigate a fluid, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial environment
• Must have e-commerce and catalog experience
• Good sense of humor and an affinity for office supplies will get you bonus points

Send info to
workhappy@poppin.com

Poppin Web Designer

Poppin’s Web Designer is responsible for creating one of the most engaging and incredible visual experiences on the web. We are in the midst of creating a disruptive e-commerce brand in the office supply space and we are searching for an amazingly talented web designer to join our team. Think lifestyle brand for the office with a splash of color and a voice that will charm your pants off!

Responsibilities:

• Design visual elements for e-commerce website
• Create e-mail campaigns, advertisements, landing pages, and social media concepts
• Maintain brand consistency throughout web experience
• Retouch images – must have a keen visual eye
• Follow project schedules and meet deadlines – juggle with one hand tied behind your back
• Engage in various design related projects across departments
• Work alongside e-commerce, marketing, product design, graphic design, and sales teams

Qualifications:

• 5+ years web design experience
• Must have a brand appropriate design style and an exquisite sense of creativity,
  design visuals and typography
• A strong familiarity with Magento is required
• Proficiency with HTML/XHTML/CSS/PHP
• Strong knowledge base of the Zend framework
• Acute attention to detail and highly organized
• Self-starter with an affinity for finding and creating solutions
• Expertise with Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, MS Office, and Acrobat would be sweet
• Ability to navigate a fluid, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial environment
• Good sense of humor and an affinity for office supplies will get you bonus points

Send info to
workhappy@poppin.com

Poppin Product Manager

Poppin’s Product Manager/Analyst will be responsible for understanding the systems and their interdependencies with external systems. Candidate must be able to identify and leverage IT solutions to enable business objectives and analyze technical constraints to communicate viable alternatives to the business.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the CTO and IT consultants
• Facilitate an environment that optimizes the use of IT products, systems, services and procedures
• Understand and document business processes, user needs, program functions, and present the steps required to develop or modify applications
• Identify issues that arise from day to day operations
• Identify data analysis challenges that exist within the business
• Formalize documentation of business/technical requirements for projects that will be turned over to
  external development teams
• Work closely with the development team to coordinate the system changes and ensure
  appropriate system testing
• Track project status and process compliance during application development
• May have responsibility for preparing and executing test scripts on an as needed basis
• Must be able to document functional requirements, design system specifications, create use cases, workflow diagrams, as well as screen and interface designs.

Qualifications:

• BS/BA preferred
• 5+ years related experience
• 5+ years systems analysis and/or project management experience
• Proficiency with UML
• Proficiency with project management tools
• Familiarity with test tools and test plans
• Deep passion for warehousing procedures and inventory management
• Acute attention to detail and highly organized
• Assertive decision making with an affinity for finding and creating solutions
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Google based products preferred
• Familiarity with Netsuite a plus
• Ability to navigate a fluid, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial environment
• E-commerce & B2B experience
• Good sense of humor and an affinity for office supplies will get you bonus points

Send info to
workhappy@poppin.com

Poppin Number Cruncher

Poppin’s Quantitative Analyst or Number Cruncher as we like to call it is responsible for deep diving into all of our data points and making sense of it all. We are in the midst of creating an incredibly disruptive brand in the office supply space and we are searching for a super-smart and creative analyst to join our talented team.

Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic learnings and recommendations to optimize marketing campaigns
• Track and forecast stock inventory and sell through rates
• Audit marketing communications and channels to create tracking requirements
• Implement and maintain KPI plans that are aligned with department objectives
• Generate analytics reports for internal teams
• Engage in various data warehousing and data mining projects

Qualifications:

• BS/BA in business, economics, mathematics, statistics, or computer science preferred
• 5+ years related experience
• Strong quantitative skills and understanding of multiple interacting metrics
• Acute attention to detail and highly organized
• Self-starter with an affinity for finding and creating solutions
• Proficiency with Excel, Powerpoint and CRMs
• Familiarity with OLAP, ETL and visualization tools would be sweet
• Ability to navigate a fluid, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial environment
• E-commerce and catalog experience a plus
• Good sense of humor and an affinity for office supplies will get you bonus points

Send info to
workhappy@poppin.com

Warehouse & Operations Specialist

Poppin’s warehouse and operations specialist is a dynamic individual responsible for overseeing day to day operations of our warehouse, managing our inventory, and facilitating the relationship with our 3PL partners. This individual will also work closely with our customer experience team and sales leaders to ensure that our customers have a mind blowing experience with Poppin! We are looking for a strong leader with a passion for over-delivering on customers’ expectations.

Responsibilities:

• Manage relationship with 3PL company; receiving, put-away, pick-pack-ship, and returns
• Work with business analyst to track and forecast stock inventory and sell through rates
• Responsible for driving KPIs around on-time delivery and order fulfillment accuracy
• Constantly review processes to drive efficiencies and streamline operations
• Meet or exceed quality, delivery, and budget objectives
• Communicate with sales, operations, and customer experience team leads

Qualifications:

• BS/BA preferred
• 5+ years related experience
• 5+ years team management experience
• Deep passion for warehousing procedures and inventory management
• Acute attention to detail and highly organized
• Assertive decision making with an affinity for finding and creating solutions
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Google based products preferred
• Familiarity with Netsuite a plus
• Ability to navigate a fluid, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial environment
• E-commerce & B2B experience
• Good sense of humor and an affinity for office supplies will get you bonus points

Send info to
workhappy@poppin.com

Lead Mechanical Engineer

Poppin's Lead Mechanical Engineer will oversee the technical development and performance of all product concepts originating from our New York Office, working closely with our team of product designers to provide creative and innovative solutions to manufacturing. The ideal candidate values and respects design intent, is motivated by the opportunity to apply creative solutions to any problem, is expert at material sciences and manufacturing processes, and thrives at turning innovation into reality.

Responsibilities:

• Work day to day with the Product Design team to make concepts feasible for manufacture
• Interface with our Shanghai sourcing headquarters to coordinate specification to factories
• Lead the technical aspects of product design including the continued development of protocols for specification
• Interface with interdisciplinary teams to manage schedules, deadlines, and presentations
• Oversee the creation and expansion of an in-house shop and rapid prototyping facility

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and strong mechanical aptitude
• Minimum 5 years experience in product design environment
• Expert in Solid works, with ability to create complex surfaces and organic forms + FEA analysis
• Proficiency with CS5 (photoshop, indesign, illustrator) for the purpose of presenting visually
• Superb knowledge of manufacturing processes including: injection molding, thermoplastics, sheet metal, die casting, extrusions, machining, part design
• Experience with mechanisms, closures, kinetic parts and product dynamics
• Ease of communicating ideas to international suppliers
• Ability to qualitatively analyze problems and synthesize solutions, including breadboard testing and rapid prototyping, with good shop skills
• Expert knowledge of specifying dimension tolerance material and finish
• Accurate design control through organized documentation modification
• Healthy attitude toward making things possible

Send info to
workhappy@poppin.com