Category Manager - Sneakers

Help empower our global customers to connect to culture through their passions. Why you’ll love this role: StockX is the world’s leading marketplace for current culture, built at the intersection of commerce, community, and credibility. Sneakers are foundational to StockX — not just as a category, but as a culture, an economy, and a global community.

We are expanding how sneaker culture shows up on StockX through creator-driven, community-oriented commerce experiences that blend storytelling, expertise, and transaction. To do this well, we need category leaders who don’t just understand the sneaker market — they live inside it. The Sneakers Category Manager is the single-threaded owner of sneaker category growth within a new, high-priority commerce initiative.

This person is the in-house expert on sneaker culture, people, economics, and moments — and is responsible for translating that expertise into supply growth, engagement, and GMV. You will act as: The internal authority on the primary and secondary sneaker ecosystem The external face of StockX to sneaker sellers, creators, and community leaders The architect of the sneaker go-to-market / growth playbook for this new initiative This role blends deep cultural fluency, strategic ownership, and hands-on execution. Early on, you will own everything related to sneakers within this initiative.

As the category scales, you will grow into a leader overseeing a broader sneaker portfolio and team.

What You’Ll Do

: Own the Sneakers Category End-to-End Define and execute the growth strategy for sneakers within the platform Own category-level performance across supply, engagement, and revenue Establish quarterly goals, leading indicators, and operating rhythms Be the Market Culture Expert Maintain deep, current knowledge of sneaker culture, including: Key sellers, creators, collectors, and resellers Sub-segments (hype vs.

Nice To Have

: Existing network of sneaker