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Ops & Marketing Project Manager

Somewhere

Fully Remote
Remote - South Africa
South Africa
US hours

Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants

This fully remote full time position at Somewhere explicitly welcomes applicants based in South Africa. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.

Job Description

Role:Ops&Marketing Project ManagerPriority location: Remote: SA/LatAm/PHWorking hours:  9AM - 5PM EST (NY)Salary range: Market RelatedType of contract: Independent ContractorType of job: Remote

About The Company

A brand platform (AI forward thinking) on a mission to acquire, scale, and revitalize exceptional consumer brands in the U.S.

Role Summary

Hiring anOps & Marketing Project Managerto serve as the organizational backbone of a small, fast-moving team. Plans get made in Slack, work gets briefed in Notion, and the gap between those two is where things quietly die. You are the person who closes that gap.

This role sits primarily on the operations side of the home fragrance brand. You will own wholesale operations end-to-end and keep product development, inventory, and production moving by managing suppliers, holding timelines, building project boards, and ensuring nothing sits waiting on an unasked question.

Simultaneously, you will own the cross-channel marketing calendar and the project flow behind it (website, paid creative, email/SMS, creator work, promotions, and launches), ensuring every decision has an owner, a date, a dependency map, and proactive follow-through.

Tools like Claude are integrated into daily workflows, not used as side experiments. You will be expected to build systems, SOPs, trackers, and reporting with AI in the loop to eliminate busywork and drive startup-speed execution.

​​​Key responsibilities
* Operations & Wholesale:
Operations & Wholesale:
* Own end-to-end daily wholesale operations: process orders, charge payments, create inbound/outbound shipments, and manage B2B customer service.
* Generate 3PL orders for suppliers, samples, and operational inventory.
* Document processes and write SOPs as you go to enable future team delegation and scalability.
* Product Development, Inventory & Production:
Product Development, Inventory & Production:
* Coordinate supplier follow-ups, cost comparisons, production timelines, and project boards for new products and packaging.
* Track production milestones closely and flag potential slippage early with actionable solutions.
* Support inventory operations and learn production fundamentals to take on expanded operational scope over time.
* Marketing Calendar & Project Flow:
Marketing Calendar & Project Flow:
* Own and maintain a single cross-channel calendar spanning website, paid creative, email/SMS, UGC/creator work, promotions, and product launches.
* Hold dates by working backwards from launch milestones to sequence creative, approvals, and builds in the correct order.
* Translate high-level strategy into concrete, briefed tasks with assigned owners and realistic dates.
* Prevent project collisions (e.g., duplicate briefs, unrequested approvals, resource conflicts).
* Publish a weekly operational cadence update (what shipped, what slipped, and upcoming risk areas) without waiting to be asked.
* Systems, Notion & AI Infrastructure:
Systems, Notion & AI Infrastructure:
* Serve as the owner of Notion as the system of record: design structure, maintain templates, enforce status hygiene, and drive team adoption.
* Build structured, reliable systems where only informal habits exist today.
* Utilize AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, etc.) to build and manage systems, draft SOPs and briefs, track outstanding deliverables, and automate routine reporting.
* Maintain partnership records, creator contracts, and payment tracking in coordination with finance and team leads.
​​​Requirements
* Experience & Background:
Experience & Background:
* 3+ yearsmanaging multiple concurrent projects across teams that did not report directly to you.
* Direct operations experience, ideally within e-commerce, consumer brands, wholesale, or supply chain.
* Direct marketing project experience, ideally owning or coordinating a multi-channel marketing calendar.
* Systems, Software & AI:
Systems, Software & AI:
* Hands-on Notion experience:Proven track record building functional databases, views, and templates that others rely on daily.
* Serious AI usage:Demonstrated ability to integrate AI into your personal workflow to eliminate busywork and build systems.
* Experience operating within CRMs (Folk, HubSpot, Salesforce, Klaviyo, or similar) with strict status hygiene.
* Advanced Excel/Google Sheets skills, alongside comfort across Word, PowerPoint, Google Workspace, and Slack.
* Core Mindset & Soft Skills:
Core Mindset & Soft Skills:
* Exceptional organizational skills, relentless follow-through, and attention to detail.
* Proactive problem-solving instinct: inclined to flag potential risks early on Monday rather than report delays on Friday, always attached with a recommendation.
* Excellent written English communication skills suitable for asynchronous work across time zones.
* High comfort in a fast-moving, adaptable startup environment where priorities evolve and ambiguity is embraced.​​​​
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* Direct wholesale or B2B operations and customer service experience.
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Tips for South African Applicants

Timezone Advantage

South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.

Salary in Context

Even without a listed salary, international remote roles typically pay 2-3x more than equivalent local positions in South Africa due to the exchange rate advantage.

Application Tips

Tailor your CV to international standards — use a clean format, highlight remote work experience, and include your English proficiency. Many SA applicants succeed by emphasising their strong work ethic and cultural adaptability.

Load Shedding Preparedness

If you're applying for a remote role, having a backup power solution (UPS, inverter, or generator) and mobile data as a backup internet connection shows employers you're prepared for South Africa's infrastructure challenges.

About Somewhere

Somewhere is a company in the Recruitment & Staffing industry that hires remote workers from South Africa. They currently have 1819 open positions on Hirezar. View all Somewhere jobs →