Senior Manager, Overseas Sourcing
Minted
China
Posted on Dec 27, 2025
The Role:
Excited to design and develop beautiful new physical products? Minted’s ability to continually innovate and bring new and beautifully designed products to market year after year has been a cornerstone of our success and growth. Take part in reinventing the future of retail by utilizing Minted’s advantage in crowdsourcing to create innovative and delightful products and services. The Senior Manager, Overseas Sourcing, is a key partner in ensuring that Minted continuously brings fresh, unique designs from Minted’s community of independent artists to life in the form of stationery, art, gifts, and home decor products.
Partnering with the Merchandising, Supply Chain, and Business Development teams, you will create an overseas manufacturing network that elevates the Minted brand. You will establish and manage all overseas sourcing, manufacturing, international logistics and suppliers across wholesale, physical retail channels, and licensing & partnership opportunities with well-known brands and entities. You will be responsible for expanding Minted’s overseas vendor relationships and managing day-to-day partnerships to deliver high-quality raw materials and finished products, while minimizing cost and time to market. You will have knowledge about and passion for sourcing best-in-class materials and finished products to grow our business, including overseeing tariff classification and global trade requirements, ensuring compliance with international and domestic regulatory standards, managing product testing and quality assurance protocols, and optimizing logistics processes such as customs clearance, freight routing, and on-time delivery.
The ideal candidate is a highly motivated, results-driven leader who thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and has a track record of delivering results. They are knowledgeable about sourcing stationery, art, gifts, and home decor products. They possess superb product intuition, strong project management, collaboration, and communication skills, as well as the ability to think strategically and roll up their sleeves to get things done quickly and efficiently with limited resources. They also possess strong business modeling and cost modeling capabilities to inform sourcing decisions and drive financial efficiency across the product portfolio.
This role is a remote position based in Asia, ideally in China or Hong Kong, and reports to Minted’s Senior Director of Sourcing. The role will require regular collaboration with teams and partners in the United States, including regular availability aligned with Pacific Standard Time to ensure adequate overlap with U.S. working hours. Occasional in-country and annual international travel will be required. Candidates must have a valid passport and be able to comply with all travel visa requirements. When not traveling, this role will interface frequently with internal team members, vendors, and cross-functional partners via phone, email, and video conference; occasional evening or weekend availability may be needed based on business demands.
You will:
- Expand Minted’s portfolio of suppliers with expectations for controlling and reducing spend across the organization, including driving cost-modeling insights to guide sourcing and margin decisions
- Build and manage effective strategic relationships with overseas suppliers to support the company’s sourcing and manufacturing placement, quality, and cost goals, with a focus on long-term partnership development in Asia
- Partner with Merchandising, Supply Chain, and Business Development teams to develop, source, and manufacture products to drive sales growth
- Manage production and sourcing, including materials knowledge, trade regulations, testing protocol, product integrity, production cycle timeline, costing, SOP, and shipping documentation, ensuring compliance with international and domestic regulatory requirements
- Negotiate with offshore partners to obtain competitive pricing and improve margin structures, while also ensuring quality standards remain aligned to the Minted brand
- Regularly communicate with overseas suppliers to audit quality, verify capabilities, build expertise and relationships, proactively identifying risks and proposing solutions
- Provide clear, accurate, and timely communication to manufacturers and cross-functional partners regarding production and shipping timelines to mitigate any delays
- Occasionally move equipment weighing up to 30 pounds. This role entails physically moving displays, boxes, and other visual materials
You are:
- Results-oriented. You are most comfortable in work environments that are outcome-oriented and merit-based, and are highly motivated by goal accomplishment, consistently driving initiatives forward with minimal supervision
- A passionate customer advocate. You are ready to put the customer first and influence others across the company to think similarly
- Receptive to change. You are flexible, adaptable, innovative, and open in response to competitive pressure and market change
- A collaborative thinker. You bring a positive attitude and enjoy an environment that has been structured for collaboration and interdependence. You are transparent and openly share information. You have experience working effectively with employees at all levels of a company
- A strong communicator: You are articulate and persuasive while able to listen and incorporate the perspectives of others. You can influence key stakeholders and teams without direct authority
- A systems thinker. You intuitively understand interdependencies, ask follow-up questions, and drive to solutions that balance the success of initiatives across revenue, quality, brand, and cost goals
- A strong quantitative thinker with a background in building trackers and process management models, including business and cost models used to inform sourcing decisions
- A self-starter with the ability to prioritize in a fast-paced environment and meet changing deadlines and priorities on multiple simultaneous projects
- A quick learner and a creative problem solver who is detail-oriented with a keen ability to identify process and data gaps and bring organization to disparate information sources
You have:
- 8-10+ years of sourcing and product development of consumer goods for retail, with particular experience required in home decor, gifts, fabric, and stationery goods, preferably with deep in-region experience in Asia
- 6+ years of experience working with supply chain, accounting (AP/AR), and customer service, with an affinity towards e-commerce and/or retail
- Vendor relationships: you bring to Minted an immediate network of trusted overseas manufacturers and a long track record of working in-region with overseas partners to deliver results, managing provider performance and cost, including the use of cost-modeling tools to evaluate vendor proposals
- Materials knowledge: a passion for design and the categories that Minted participates in to source the highest quality products to meet customer expectations of Minted’s brand
- Exceptional and obsessive detail orientation to ensure brand integrity, flawless product quality, and operational excellence
- Project management skills: ability to work cross-functionally and outside the organization, and have a track record of achieving the results expected. You are extremely detailed and process-oriented, balancing short-term and long-term needs
- Exceptional presentation and communication skills with a strong ability to influence others across the organization, vendors, and suppliers
- Analytical skills: You can make decisions quickly with imperfect data. You know how to measure and monitor results to move key metrics in the right direction. You are adept at Excel and Google Suite and are willing to learn new systems, processes, and procedures
- Strong English and Mandarin language skills, both written and verbal, to ensure seamless communication with internal teams and overseas partners
- Work ethic: You do what it takes to ensure every customer has a great experience with Minted, which involves working with cross-functional teams and sometimes making fast decisions and executing tasks quickly
- 4-year degree in a relevant field, highly preferred
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About Minted:
Artists shape culture. They spark conversation, create connection, and bring beauty into the world. Minted is where they come together to reach further. Our marketplace empowers a thriving community of independent artists to sell and scale their work. We nurture self-expression, cultivate community, and bring the best in visual art to a global audience.
We’re building a new way to discover the world’s best creative talent. We’re here for the emerging talent ready to take off, the local favorites ready to grow, and the established artists ready to dream bigger.
At Minted, our people don’t just believe in the power of art–we live it. We have our finger on the pulse of what’s new and now. We’re obsessed with great design, art, and interiors. We’re in galleries, at fairs, and constantly finding inspiration online. We seek undiscovered talent that deserves to stand up and stand out. We connect with artists that have something to say, and we collaborate to amplify their work. The Minted community’s art, stationery, and textiles products have reached over 75 million homes worldwide.
Our marketplace brings the best in independent design to consumers everywhere. We recognize the challenges independent artists face, and we leverage our resources to level the playing field and create a platform that gives artists the freedom to develop their craft and grow their business.
We are headquartered in San Francisco, CA and currently employ 350+ full-time employees, plus additional temporary workers during the holiday season. We have raised over $300M from top-tier investors including Benchmark Capital, T. Rowe Price, Permira, Ridge Ventures, Technology Crossover Ventures, and Norwest Venture Partners. Angel investors include Marissa Mayer, Jeremy Stoppelman, Julia & Kevin Hartz, Yishan Wong, and more.
Minted is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to inclusion and diversity. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives and will consider all qualified applicants for employment in accordance with all state, local, and federal laws. Minted participates in the E-verify program.
How Our Process Works:
Minted uses technology and innovative practices to bring unique, best-selling design to market at scale. Using its crowdsourcing technology, consumers are empowered to vote for the designs they love and want to see sold, ensuring that Minted always sells continuously fresh and trend-forward product. The winning designs are manufactured by Minted, enabling artists from around the world to share and sell their work while letting Minted do the rest. Since launch in 2007, the company has expanded to serve consumers in new categories including wall art, textiles, digital content and home decor, as well as serve major retailers and consumer products brands with data-backed design through licensing and wholesale partnerships.