Distacart - Catalogue Specialist

Senior Catalogue Specialist Distacart

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana

Department: Digital Marketing

Reports to: Head of Growth

Employment Type: Full-time

About Distacart :

Distacart is a fast-growing ecommerce startup focused on delivering a wide range of products to customers with speed and reliability. As we scale our catalogue, we're looking for a detail-oriented Senior Catalogue Specialist to help build, maintain, and optimize our product listings across categories directly supporting our growth and digital marketing goals.

Role Overview :

The Senior Catalogue Specialist will own end-to-end catalogue operations from product onboarding and content creation to data accuracy, categorization, and listing optimization with a strong focus on how catalogue quality drives discoverability, traffic, and conversions. Sitting within the Digital Marketing team and reporting to the Head of Growth, this role requires close collaboration with marketing, SEO, vendors, and tech teams to ensure the catalogue actively supports growth objectives.

Key Responsibilities :

- Manage the full lifecycle of product listings: creation, enrichment, categorization, and updates across the platform

- Ensure accuracy, consistency, and SEO-readiness of product titles, descriptions, images, attributes, and pricing

- Optimize listings for search visibility and conversion in alignment with broader growth and marketing campaigns

- Collaborate with vendors/suppliers to gather product information and resolve catalogue discrepancies

- Audit existing listings regularly to identify and fix errors, duplicates, or missing information

Work with the growth/marketing team to plan catalogue updates around campaigns, promotions, and new category launches

- Define and maintain catalogue quality standards, content templates, and SOPs

- Analyze catalogue performance metrics (search rankings, CTR, conversion) and recommend improvements

- Train and mentor junior catalogue team members

- Coordinate with tech/product teams to flag and resolve catalogue-related platform issues

- Report on catalogue health and its impact on growth KPIs to the Head of Growth

Requirements :

- 3- 5 years of experience in ecommerce catalogue management, content operations, or digital marketing-adjacent roles

- Strong proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets (pivot tables, formulas, data cleaning)

- Familiarity with ecommerce platforms, marketplace tools, or CMS/PIM systems

- Working knowledge of SEO principles as applied to product listings

- Excellent attention to detail and ability to manage large volumes of data accurately

- Strong written communication skills for product content creation

- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced startup environment and manage multiple priorities

- Prior experience working with vendors/suppliers is a plus

Nice to Have :

- Hands-on experience with SEO tools (Google Search Console, SEMrush, Ahrefs, etc.)

- Basic understanding of HTML for product description formatting

- Exposure to tools like Shopify, WooCommerce, Amazon Seller Central, or similar platforms

- Experience working closely with growth/performance marketing teams

What We Offer :

- Opportunity to shape catalogue processes at an early-stage startup

- Direct exposure to growth strategy as part of the Digital Marketing team

- Collaborative, fast-paced work environment based in Hyderabad

- Growth opportunities as the company scales

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