Who we are:

Apply is a creative empowerment brand, leveraging the timeless & beloved medium of stickers to let anyone proudly show the world who they are. Stickers? Yes, stickers! Like what you might find on the back of a laptop, bottom of a skate deck, or side of a suitcase. We’re a mission-driven team that believes in the power of pictures to change things for the better. We work with dozens of iconic artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and cultural establishments like MoMA, Camp, and Gagosian to craft & distribute elevated products that give people a chance to imaginatively engage with our rich visual culture and playfully personalize the things that they love.

<aside> 🦺 We’re currently seeking a Business Operations Lead, a key new pillar to our leadership team, focused on building our organization to make the most of our momentum. You’re responsibilities will include: • Fulfillment Operations: manage team to process inbound & outbound inventory, evolve our associated workflows for efficiency, deliver a consistently delightful customer experience
• Supplier Management: fortify existing strategic vendor relationships & forge new ones, introducing new capabilities, improving the sustainability of our products, and driving stronger unit economics • Planning & Reporting: translate our operational data into insights, deliver learnings to team & shareholders on regular cadence, and build workflows with relevant tools to streamline that process • Blocking & Tackling: work with external service providers (ex: bookkeepers, tax advisors, brokers, and lawyers) to ensure we’re in good standing financially & legally (ex: reporting, filing, licenses, etc)

</aside>

A bit about you:

You’re inspired by the intersection of art & business, eager to be a first-ten employee at a fast-growing, NYC-based consumer brand. You’re detail-oriented, eager to roll up your sleeves and solve the question of the week. You are comfortable in ambiguity, but eager to drive to insight & specificity. You understand the hidden paths in Excel, the time-saving glory of a mail merge, and the cold calculus of critical path. You get it done.

You’ll love working at Apply, because:

• You’ll be taken care of: You’ll receive a competitive compensation package (salary, equity, and benefits)
• We’ll accelerate your career: Own company-defining outcomes & outsized responsibility. We’ll invest in your training & growth.
• There are no rules, just values: We’re passionate about our values, but everything else is a work in progress & yours to shape
• We only thrive through diversity: Our art, ambitions & customers are diverse. We’ll only reach our potential, if it's modeled in our team. We value your unique voice, will listen to it, and amplify it.
• What could be more fun? After all, we're in the stickers business! Our job is to make things that bring people joy.

You’re a perfect fit, if you’re:

• A builder, compelled to create, with commercial instincts
• Rigorous, with a strong quantitative skill set
• Comfortable across unit economics, three-statement models, sourcing, supply chain, business development and strategy
• Curious enough to break down complex ideas and eager to put them back together more simply
• Humble, yet driven to get it done - no task is too large or small
• A clear & punctual communicator, both verbally and in writing
• Plugged into the worlds of fine art, fashion, or entertainment