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Own the end-to-end personalization experience across Babylist’s products, defining its vision, UX strategy, quality bar, KPIs, and research direction. Partner with product, engineering, analytics, marketing, and merchandising leaders to set priorities, prototype, build, and ship high-impact experiences. Champion AI-native design workflows, mentor designers, establish craft and operating standards, and help evolve the organization’s design practices.

Own and evolve AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, developer tooling, observability, security defaults, backup recovery, and incident response. Build reliable automation and self-service workflows, establish SLOs and actionable alerting, support engineers across environments, lead platform initiatives, improve security and reliability practices, and mentor engineers serving millions of users.

Own the strategy, architecture, development, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement of production personalization and recommendation systems. Build custom embeddings, ranking models, and shared representations across feeds, search, and recommendations. Lead ambiguous problems from concept to measurable customer impact, establish AI evaluation standards, partner with product and data teams, make cross-team technical decisions, and coach senior engineers.

Own Babylist’s SEO, AEO, and GEO strategy across traditional search and AI-powered platforms. Lead the organic search roadmap, technical SEO, content standards, measurement, AI-driven systems, brand search attribution, and agentic commerce initiatives. Partner with Marketing, Engineering, Editorial, Merchandising, and Partnerships to increase visibility, citations, registry signups, and revenue.

Own multi-state U.S. payroll for 600–1,000 employees across approximately 35 states, including payroll processing, audits, corrections, and employee support. Manage a comprehensive compliance calendar covering federal and state filings, screenings, training, policy updates, and employment-law changes. Design internal controls, maintain audit evidence, improve procedures, and build automation. Partner with People Operations, Accounting, Legal, outside counsel, and the payroll provider to ensure accurate, timely, and compliant payroll operations.

Own replenishment, order writing, inventory forecasting, and open-to-buy planning for Furniture and Monitors. Manage dropship vendors, monitor availability and out-of-stocks, resolve fulfillment risks, and deliver sales and inventory recaps. Partner with Merchandising, Supply Chain, and Finance on assortment changes, new product introductions, and category health. The role requires advanced Excel, retail math, planning-system proficiency, strong vendor communication, and effective use of AI tools.

Own Babylist Media’s ad technology, inventory, yield, and offsite distribution strategy. Configure and optimize Koddi, establish capacity and prioritization rules, improve eCPM, fill, and utilization, and transition sponsorships toward CPM and self-serve buying. Lead outsourced ad operations partners, incident response, campaign delivery health, and distribution across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, and Babylist Connect. This player-coach role combines hands-on ad server administration, strategy, vendor management, and cross-functional communication.

Leads a team of five experienced analysts and data scientists while personally owning strategic analytics across ecommerce, health, supply chain, inventory, fulfillment, and merchandising. Partners with executives, establishes KPI and reporting standards, prioritizes the analytics roadmap, and delivers actionable business insights. The role also advances AI-native, self-service analytics capabilities, strengthens data governance and quality, and builds a high-performing analytics culture.

Owns financial visibility and performance for the e-commerce business, including forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, pricing and promotion ROI, margin reporting, accruals, dashboards, and executive and board presentations. Partners cross-functionally to ensure data integrity, establish financial processes, identify risks and opportunities, and implement AI-enabled improvements across FP&A workflows.

Lead Babylist's merchandise planning, allocation, and inventory strategy for $1B+ scale. Build and scale the Planning org, drive forecasting/allocation platform adoption, set operating standards and KPIs (in-stock, weeks of supply, aged inventory), own inventory deployment and drop-ship strategy across distribution, and partner with Merchandising, Supply Chain, and Data/Finance to improve customer experience and working capital.