We're a stealth beauty startup preparing to launch a new haircare brand, and we're looking for a Director, Digital Commerce to build and scale our digital business from the ground up. Reporting to the Brand President, this is a hands-on role for a builder who thrives on designing and operating new systems across analytics, lifecycle, performance marketing, ecommerce infrastructure, and marketplaces. Your mission is to create a scalable, efficient digital ecosystem that compounds growth over time and helps shape a high-profile, category-defining company.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Turn data into decisions
- Establish a unified analytics framework, dashboards, and core KPIs across brands
- Translate performance data into clear insights and action, partnering with leadership to guide strategic decisions
Build lifecycle, CRM, and retention
- Own CRM and lifecycle strategy including email, SMS, loyalty, and subscription
- Scale high-performing subscription and retention programs to increase LTV
- Create disciplined testing frameworks for messaging, cadence, and offers
Drive performance marketing and conversion
- Own performance marketing strategy and execution across paid channels, in-house and through agencies
- Optimize CAC, efficiency, and incremental growth
- Own the end-to-end digital consumer journey across brands driving seamless, conversion-optimized experiences
- Lead conversion, UX, and experimentation frameworks
- Partner with creative and brand teams to ensure performance and brand integrity coexist
Own platforms and marketplaces
- Own ecommerce platforms, websites, and core digital infrastructure ensuring stability, scalability, and cost efficiency of the digital stack
- Partner with operations on platform selection and roadmap
- Lead Amazon, TikTok Shop, and retailer digital strategies, execution, and optimization as the brand ecosystem expands ensuring consistent merchandising, storytelling, and conversion across all platforms
WHAT WE SEEK
- 7+ years of experience building and scaling digital commerce businesses
- Proven track record driving significant growth – whether scaling from early stages, turning around underperforming digital ecosystems, or building new foundations from scratch
- Deep, hands-on understanding of DTC economics, including conversion, retention, LTV, and unit economics
- Execution-level experience across performance marketing, CRM, subscription, and lifecycle marketing
- Ability to design and implement cost-efficient, scalable digital systems and operating processes
- Strategic thinker who can architect for scale while operating lean, prioritizing effectively, and sequencing investments in resource-constrained environments
- Proven people leader with experience building, developing, and leading high-performing teams
- Strong cross-functional partner to brand, creative, product, and operations teams
- Clear, concise communicator who can translate complexity into action
- Experience in beauty, wellness, or consumer brands preferred
- Multi-brand experience and high-growth or early-stage company experience strongly preferred
- Experience launching new brands or categories digitally is a plus
LOCATION
The role is fully remote within the United States, with occasional travel to our Boston headquarters and other locations for key milestones and collaboration.
The full compensation package is based on candidate experience.
We are committed to diversity, equality, and inclusion in all its practices. It is the policy of Arcaea to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants.
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What We Do
Arcaea (Ar-kay-uh). We're on a mission to build a new foundation for the beauty industry where biology as the creative tool for self-expression. We're growing new ingredients and product experiences for beauty through technology that includes DNA sequencing, biological engineering, fermentation and more. By culturing industry-leading, safe, and sustainable ingredients, we intend to create a new supply chain for the industry that does not rely on petrochemicals or on harvesting and depleting natural resources while making products that can deliver new functionality and performance across skincare, bodycare, haircare, and aesthetics. Arcaea was incubated on the Ginkgo Bioworks platform under the working title Kalo.
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