Digital Authentication Associate

About the Team

The Operations team manages our worldwide distribution network and is responsible for authenticating products, fulfilling orders and ensuring on-time delivery to buyers. Through our technological innovation and logistical efficiency, you will join a team that prides itself on being the most trusted marketplace in the industry while shipping and processing tens of millions of products for our global buyers and sellers.

In this role, you will:

• Responsibilities:
  • Authenticate listings
    • Review and authenticate listings before they are available for sale
    • Remove unsafe listings or listings that don’t meet our marketplace standards
    • Ensure that listings are accurately described (size, condition) and in the right strata
    • Respond to community and marketing requests for additional item moderation
    • Review authentication defect reports to understand the nature of inauthentic items that made it through the authentication process to support the team’s continuous improvement efforts
  • Train and develop authentication skills
    • Stay up to date on how to authenticate streetwear brands
    • Attend training or mentorship sessions with team leads to increase brand and authentication knowledge
    • Host training or conduct mentorship sessions to contribute to team learning
  • Contribute to company-wide initiatives and OKRs
    • Understand how authentication work affects defect rate and metrics for the item authentication team overall
    • Recognize how authentication volume affects SLA and metrics for the item authentication team overall
    • Other duties as assigned
• Luxury Designer Knowledge:
  • Knowledge and/or familiarity with various luxury-specific designers including, but not limited to:
    • Louis Vuitton
    • Goyard
    • Gucci
    • Dior
    • Hermès
    • Chanel
    • Fendi
    • The Row
    • Loro Piana

We are looking for:

• Strong knowledge and interest in fashion 
• Specific interest in luxury designers and trends
• Ability to learn/adapt quickly and proven independent problem-solving skills.
• Enthusiastic about Grailed and/or power user of Grailed platform 
• Professional: Impeccable judgment when trusted with sensitive, non-public data and information
• Exhibit Grailed Values: Ownership, Empathetic Approach, Continuous Improvement, Solutions Focus, and Community Driven 
• Background knowledge about the product; you bring expertise to the team
• Availability to work weekends and holidays (as scheduled)
• Availability to work 20-30 hours per week
• Availability to attend team meetings and collaborate frequently

GOAT Group represents the leading platforms for authentic sneakers, apparel and accessories. Operating four distinct brands–GOAT, Flight Club, Grailed and alias–GOAT Group has a global community of more than 60 million members across 170 countries.

GOAT is the global platform for the greatest products from the past, present and future. Since its founding in 2015, GOAT has become one of the leading and most trusted sneaker platforms in the world, and has expanded to offer apparel and accessories from select emerging, contemporary and iconic brands. Through its unique positioning between the primary and resale markets, the company offers styles across various time periods on its digital platforms and in its retail locations, while delivering products to over 60 million members across 170 countries.

Established in New York City over 15 years ago, Flight Club revolutionized sneaker retail as the original consignment store for rare shoes. Carrying the rarest exclusives and collectible sneakers, Flight Club has evolved from a one-stop sneaker destination, to a cultural hub for sneaker enthusiasts and novices alike. With three brick-and-mortar locations in New York City, Los Angeles and Miami, Flight Club remains the premier source for authentic, rare sneakers.

Founded in 2013, Grailed is the leading community-driven marketplace for rare luxury, streetwear and vintage fashion. The marketplace was built for enthusiasts, by enthusiasts, and features products from brands including Supreme, Raf Simons, Gucci, Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, Prada and more. With a highly curated selection of resale pieces including inventory exclusive to the platform, Grailed makes fashion accessible.

The company is backed by strategic investor Foot Locker, Inc. as well as some of the leading names in venture capital including Park West Asset Management, T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., Franklin Templeton, Adage Capital Management, Ulysses Management, D1 Capital Partners, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Matrix Partners, Upfront Ventures, Webb Investment Network and Y Combinator.

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