The Role:
Excited to design and develop beautiful new physical products? Minted’s ability to continually innovate and bring new and beautifully designed products to market year after year has been a cornerstone of our success and growth. Take part in reinventing the future of retail by utilizing Minted’s advantage in crowdsourcing to create innovative and delightful products and services. The Senior Manager, Overseas Sourcing, is a key partner in ensuring that Minted continuously brings fresh, unique designs from Minted’s community of independent artists to life in the form of stationery, art, gifts, and home decor products.
Partnering with the Merchandising, Supply Chain, and Business Development teams, you will create an overseas manufacturing network that elevates the Minted brand. You will establish and manage all overseas sourcing, manufacturing, international logistics and suppliers across wholesale, physical retail channels, and licensing & partnership opportunities with well-known brands and entities. You will be responsible for expanding Minted’s overseas vendor relationships and managing day-to-day partnerships to deliver high-quality raw materials and finished products, while minimizing cost and time to market. You will have knowledge about and passion for sourcing best-in-class materials and finished products to grow our business, including overseeing tariff classification and global trade requirements, ensuring compliance with international and domestic regulatory standards, managing product testing and quality assurance protocols, and optimizing logistics processes such as customs clearance, freight routing, and on-time delivery.
The ideal candidate is a highly motivated, results-driven leader who thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and has a track record of delivering results. They are knowledgeable about sourcing stationery, art, gifts, and home decor products. They possess superb product intuition, strong project management, collaboration, and communication skills, as well as the ability to think strategically and roll up their sleeves to get things done quickly and efficiently with limited resources. They also possess strong business modeling and cost modeling capabilities to inform sourcing decisions and drive financial efficiency across the product portfolio.
This role is a remote position based in Asia, ideally in China or Hong Kong, and reports to Minted’s Senior Director of Sourcing. The role will require regular collaboration with teams and partners in the United States, including early-day availability aligned with China Standard Time to ensure adequate overlap with U.S. working hours. Occasional in-country and annual international travel will be required. Candidates must have a valid passport and be able to comply with all travel visa requirements. When not traveling, this role will interface frequently with internal team members, vendors, and cross-functional partners via phone, email, and video conference; occasional evening or weekend availability may be needed based on business demands.