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About the role

  • Supply Growth Lead expanding Calico's AI-powered apparel sourcing marketplace. Recruiting suppliers, validating supply-side product-market fit, and shaping marketplace strategy.

Responsibilities

  • Own the supply side of Calico's apparel and clothing marketplace end to end
  • Recruit and close factories, mills, and trim and fabric suppliers
  • Segment the apparel manufacturing landscape by category, country, tier, and capability
  • Run outbound sourcing, pitching, negotiation, closing, and onboarding through the first live order
  • Develop scalable supply channels through sourcing agents, buying offices, industry associations, trade shows, and vendor lists
  • Visit factories and conduct capability audits
  • Define supplier data requirements including MOQs, lead times, machinery, certifications, compliance, price bands, and category strengths
  • Design and improve supplier onboarding and data capture processes with product and engineering
  • Build verification and data-refresh processes
  • Conduct structured supplier discovery and define supply-side product-market fit
  • Prototype supplier offers and measure behavioral changes
  • Establish and own supply-side metrics including activation, time-to-first-order, repeat rate, category coverage, and quote responsiveness
  • Translate supplier insights into the product roadmap
  • Present a supply-side thesis during the first 90 days
  • Work directly with the founders and potentially lead the future supply team

Requirements

  • 5+ years in marketplace supply growth, business development, sourcing, or apparel production
  • Genuine ability to personally open and close business relationships
  • Experience working without an established playbook and creating one
  • Analytical approach; ability to use evidence and spreadsheets
  • Cross-cultural fluency across time zones, languages, and business norms
  • Willingness to travel
  • Clear written communication
  • Existing relationships with apparel factories, mills, or sourcing agents in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Turkey, Portugal, or Central America (nice to have)
  • Experience at an early-stage marketplace during supply build-out (nice to have)
  • Working knowledge of tech packs, BOMs, grading, or costing (nice to have)
  • A second language relevant to a major sourcing region (nice to have)

Benefits

  • Meaningful early-stage equity
  • Performance-linked upside tied to supply growth and activation
  • Complete benefits package
  • Resources dedicated to learning
  • Hybrid work arrangement
  • Travel opportunities to sourcing hubs and factories

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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