eCommerce Product Data Specialist

iHerb; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off and sick leave

Bonuses and potential stock units

Job summary

iHerb is seeking an eCommerce Product Data Specialist based in Irvine, California. This role focuses on enhancing the digital shopping experience through improved product data management. The ideal candidate should have over 7 years of ecommerce merchandising experience and a strong analytical mindset.

You will collaborate with various teams and utilize data to drive decisions that improve conversion rates and customer engagement. The position includes benefits such as medical, dental, vision, and 401(k). Apply now to join a dynamic team!

Qualifications

• Strong experience managing digital storefronts for high-traffic ecommerce platforms.
• Proven ability to translate data into clear recommendations and influence partners.
• Experience in health, wellness, supplements, or consumer packaged goods ecommerce.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and track attribute completeness and accuracy.
• Improve onsite product discovery via enhanced metadata.
• Collaborate with Product and Content Operations for onboarding a new PIM and CMS.

Skills

Ecommerce merchandising

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Product metadata management

Understanding ecommerce KPIs

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Finance, Statistics, Engineering, or related quantitative field

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Google Business Suite

Job description

United States of America - Irvine, California

Job Summary

The eCommerce Product Data Specialist uses strategy and analytics to improve the digital shopping experience via improved product data. This role owns what data is available for each product to aid in the presentation, promotion, and discoverability across the site and app to maximize conversion, revenue, and customer engagement.

This role partners closely with merchandising, marketing, content operations, product, and UX teams to ensure the right products are surfaced to the right customers at the right time.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze and track attribute completeness and accuracy.
• Improve onsite product discovery via enhanced metadata to drive conversion and revenue growth.
• Setup recurring audits & compliance processes to monitor accuracy and completeness.
• Assess and improve structured product content guidelines for data consistency.
• Work with Product, Engineering and BI to syndicate the metadata availability and usage across various systems to maximize visibility and impact across all platforms (app, web, etc).
• Utilize AI tools to enrich metadata to improve speed, accuracy and breadth.
• Collaborate with Product and Content Operations to define requirements for product metadata as we onboard a new PIM and CMS tool, including enhanced images, videos, translations and key attributes by category.
• Work closely with data science and BI to define, create and own the key metrics used to determine strategies and actions.
• Work closely with regional teams to adjust the global metadata regional needs across the globe.
• Coordinate with Merchandising to support strategic priorities by category, brand, etc.

Performance Optimization

• Partner with Product & BI to track the impact to AoV, Conversion and Add to Cart of the metadata improvements.
• Use data and experimentation (A/B testing, personalization, and behavioral insights) to continuously improve site performance.

Qualifications

• Strong experience managing digital storefronts for high-traffic ecommerce platforms.
• Understanding of ecommerce KPIs including conversion, add-to-cart, AOV, and revenue per visitor.
• Experience building the foundations of a site merchandising function including tools, reporting and processes – with particular focus on product metadata.
• Strong analytical mindset with experience using data to drive merchandising decisions.
• Experience working cross‑functionally with marketing, product, UX, and engineering teams.
• Proven ability to translate data into clear recommendations and influence cross‑functional partners.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and imperfect data in a fast‑moving environment.
• Experience in health, wellness, supplements, or consumer packaged goods ecommerce.
• Familiarity with merchandising tools, search platforms, and personalization engines.

Equipment Knowledge

• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Experience with Google Business Suite (Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms) preferred

Experience Requirements

• 7+ years of ecommerce merchandising experience.

Education Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Finance, Statistics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field (MBA or Masters a plus, not required).

Benefits

Employees eligible for medical, dental, vision, and life insurance; 401(k) plan; time off, paid sick leave, and paid holidays; bonuses and potential restricted stock units. Additional benefits details are available through the company’s internal portal.

Equal Opportunity Statement

iHerb is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. iHerb prohibits discrimination and harassment.