eCommerce Production Associate

Goodwill of Central & Southern Indiana; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 17,908 - 23,419; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plan

PTO

Sabbatical

Life Insurance

Disability

Retirement match

Daily pay

Mental health support

Job summary

The Goodwill of Central and Southern Indiana is seeking a Product Associate for ShopGoodwill.com, a nonprofit e‑commerce platform. You will photograph merchandise, list products, and help sort inventory to meet hourly quotas. The role emphasizes accuracy, safety, and teamwork in a fast-paced environment.

You will use Android devices to capture images, write compelling descriptions, and ensure listings are precise and ready for online posting. Full-time, Indianapolis area.

Qualifications

• Photography ability using Android devices or digital cameras.
• Merchandising aptitude to arrange creative displays and generate revenues.
• Attention to detail to ensure accurate listings and safe processes.
• Strong communication skills across oral, written, and digital channels.
• Teamwork and collaboration to achieve department goals.
• Commitment to ethics and confidentiality in procedures.
• Willingness to learn and apply feedback for growth.
• High work ethic, punctuality, and ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Basic technical knowledge for computer and internet navigation.
• Ability to make informed decisions based on data and constraints.

Responsibilities

• Photograph merchandise: prepare products for photos, capture images with Android devices, maintain safe work area, meet quotas.
• List merchandise: research products, write descriptions, ensure accuracy in postings, correct errors, post to website.
• Sort product: assess titles for keywords, organize listings, maintain safe workspace, meet quotas, cross-train as needed.

Skills

Photography

Merchandising Aptitude

Attention to Detail

Communication Skills

Teamwork

Ethics

Continuous Learning

Work Ethic

Technical Skills

Decision Making

Job description

Position Status

Full-Time

Hourly Rate: $15/hr.

Location: 4105 N Franklin Rd., Indianapolis, IN 46226

Overview

Are you looking for a career with Goodwill outside of the typical retail or warehouse setting that is fast‑paced, dynamic, and a unique employee experience? Do you love to learn? Does the thought of handling pop culture objects, vintage toys, and designer purses excite you? Would you enjoy working in a green environmentally friendly workspace?

ShopGoodwill.com is the first e‑commerce platform created, owned, and operated by a nonprofit organization. Today, more than 130 Goodwill organizations from around the United States and Canada list and auction unique items on the site, including art, antiques, collectibles, apparel, jewelry, electronics and more. ShopGoodwill.com provides an engaging online shopping destination to further Goodwill's mission of helping people who face barriers to find jobs.

The Product Associate assists the management team in reaching the operational goals of the site by photographing merchandise, listing merchandise, and sorting product. The environment is production‑ and safety‑focused with a culture that values mutual respect, support, growth, positive team spirit, and family. All positions have hourly quotas to reach.

Responsibilities

• Photograph merchandise: Effectively prepares and arranges the product for the photos. Accurately represents products in photographs. Utilizes Android Smartphones to capture images. Follows all process instructions accurately for taking specific merchandise photos. Maintains a safe and orderly work area. Meets and surpasses hourly production quotas. Cross‑trains in other areas to build skill base and value within the department.
• List merchandise: Navigates the Internet to research products. Reviews information. Creates product descriptions to post with photo images and proofreads work. Corrects mistakes and updates information. Posts products on the ClickGoodwill website, ensuring accuracy in product descriptions, as well as grammar and spelling. Follows all process instructions accurately for writing merchandise descriptions. Maintains a safe and orderly work area. Meets and surpasses hourly production quotas. Cross‑trains in other areas to build skill base and value within the department.
• Sort product: Navigate the Internet to research product accuracy. Assesses the accuracy of titles, checks for relevant keywords, and organizes them in a readable, logical order, ensuring correct spelling. Follows all process instructions accurately to assess quality and acceptability. Maintains a safe and orderly work area. Meets and surpasses hourly production quotas. Cross‑trains in other areas to build skill base and value within the department.

Required Competencies

• Degree and Credential Requirements: NONE! We value candidates who can demonstrate capability and articulate how prior experiences will help them contribute. We believe in continuous learning and professional development.
• Industry Expertise: Has worked in a fast‑paced/production‑oriented environment with a focus on process, safety, and quality. Is adept at reaching and surpassing quantity/quality quotas while adhering to process and safety protocols.
• Online Merchandising Aptitude: Can arrange creative displays on the company website to attract purchasing consumers and generate revenues and increase profitability. Not afraid to make conclusions based on trends, research, and/or feedback to continually improve displays.
• Photography Ability: Is proficient with a digital camera and able to compose and take photos with an Android device and/or digital camera.
• Informed Decision‑Making: Identifies and comprehends issues, problems, and opportunities; compares data from different sources to conclude; uses effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; takes action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences.
• Communication Skills: Articulates thoughts and expresses ideas effectively using oral, written, visual and non‑verbal communication skills, as well as listening skills to comprehend customers' needs. Delivers information in person, in writing, and in a digital world. Possesses legible handwriting.
• Teamwork: Works well with others and makes valued contributions to the outputs of others in order to assist the team or project to achieve the required outputs.
• Ethical: Adheres to procedures and protocol, including maintaining confidentiality in passwords, logging on and off procedures, and adhering to Goodwill's values.
• Attention to Detail: Attends to details and pursues quality in accomplishing tasks, including safety awareness.
• Technical Knowledge: Has familiarity with computers and relevant software including basic computer and Internet navigation skills.
• Continuous Learning: Takes initiative in stimulating and enhancing personal knowledge, skills, and abilities. Remains open and willing to receive and apply feedback to continually improve and advance one's skills. Good retention and ability to apply learning to a future set of parameters.
• Strong Work Ethic: Demonstrates a high degree of professionalism, has a drive to succeed at any task, produces consistent and high‑quality work, is organized and timely, values good attendance and punctuality, and is able to work with minimal supervision.

Other Requirements

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

• The employee is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl to manage repetitive movement. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Can manage prolonged periods of sitting and working on a computer or handheld scanner. Some exposure to moderate noise and temperature variations and working with constant overhead fluorescent lighting.
• Visual Acuity: Has close, distance, peripheral, color vision abilities, depth perception, and is able to adjust focus.
• Minimum of 18 years of age.

Benefits

• Continuing education and leadership development as well as tuition reimbursement.
• Comprehensive health plan.
• Generous paid time off (PTO) and paid holidays.
• Sabbatical and parental leaves.
• Life, dental and vision insurance.
• Short- and long-term disability plans.
• Nationally recognized preventive health and wellness program.
• Section 125 pretax health spending account, dependent care spending account, and premiums.
• Retirement planning options with generous company % match.
• Daily pay options available.
• Free mental health support services for you and family members.

Mission and Values

Goodwill of Central and Southern Indiana is an EEO Employer/Vet/Disabled Retail1.