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Extensive experience leading Operations, Technology and Creative teams through rapid growth and dramatic seasonal scale changes. Each year we see a 20-fold increase from average off-peak order volume to sustained 4Q peak volume. My teams create and fulfill multi-channel demand, meet our business’ commitment to excellent customer experience, adhere
to our values as a founding B Corporation, and hold themselves accountable with extensive performance metrics. Strong focus on developing people, evaluating data, building/buying tech, and optimizing process to identify strategies that work at peak scale, with a seasonal team, supporting significant annual growth. Sharp negotiator with experience ranging from leases through technologies to transportation and manufacturing.
My company bio: UncommonGoods' co-founder Thomas Epting has made a career of his passions for creativity and innovation. His grandmother gave him his first camera when he was a young boy, and as a young man he refined his creative eye working for legendary photographer Irving Penn. Thomas created campaign imagery for clients like Clinique, Cole Haan, and Ralph Lauren. Although he continued to photograph in his second career, his creativity crossed disciplines in the many roles he took on in the fast-growing start-up UncommonGoods. In Thomas' first decade with UncommonGoods, he was responsible for providing Creative Direction for the web and catalog businesses, moving the company through three locations to accommodate its dramatic growth, and leading the Technology and Operations teams as the Chief Operating Officer. In 2011, he assumed the newly created role as the Chief Strategy Officer to build a roadmap of innovation for UncommonGoods' future, continuing to lead the Creative and Technology teams. Thomas resumed responsibilities as Chief Operating Officer in 2012.
