🚀 Senior Category Manager (Multiple Positions)
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ByteDance
- 📍 Location: Seattle
- đź“… Posted: Oct 27, 2025
Senior Category Manager (Multiple Positions)
Location: Seattle
Team: Commerce ops
Employment Type: Regular
Job Code: A
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement strategic marketing plans for merchants to engage effectively with creators, reach a broader audience, garner customer interest, and generate revenue.
- Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to utilize promotional tools, including various platform products, in‑person events, and online events to connect creators and audiences to merchants.
- Manage merchant accounts to resolve issues between creators and merchants to ensure seamless operations as the merchants’ businesses grow.
- Create and identify best practices, new resources, and program opportunities to foster a dynamic and adaptive environment for sustained success for the company platform’s merchants and creators.
- Optimize creator performance by overseeing creator selection, assessment, and enhancement of performance.
- Review and stay up to date on the latest market research on various retail and e‑commerce sectors to develop improvements more effectively for the business.
- Monitor the implementation of strategic promotional plans by measuring the performance of creators and merchants and identifying opportunities for improvement.
- Mentor junior Category Managers and interns.
Qualifications
Must have a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Business Administration, Economics, Marketing, Business Analytics, Statistics, or a related field, and 2 years of related work experience; OR a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Business Administration, Economics, Marketing, Business Analytics, Statistics, or a related field, and 5 years of post‑bachelor’s, progressive related work experience.
Of the required experience, must have 2 years of experience in each of the following: Developing and executing category strategies, including pricing, promotion, and assortment, to drive growth, align with goals, and enhance market competitiveness; researching market trends, executing campaigns, and guiding product decisions to align strategies with market demand and drive growth; managing key stakeholder relationships and gathering feedback to build programs aimed at driving customer revenue, growth, and retention; and account management, including assessing client’s performance, identifying opportunities for improvement, and making data‑driven decisions to drive account growth.
Travel Requirement: Domestic travel required up to 10%.
Type: Full time, 40 hours/week
Location: Bellevue, WA
Salary Range: $178,584 - $191,330 per year
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Job Information
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $178,584 - $191,330 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short‑term and long‑term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
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