Visual Merchandiser (Part-Time)

About Gentle Pet Store

Gentle Pet Store (GPS) is a digital-first pet care and wellness curation platform — a small, fast-moving founding team. This role will help shape how the brand looks, feels, and shows up, both online and at physical touchpoints like events and pop-ups.

About the Role

This is a part-time role built around a flexible ~15–18 hours a week — enough to get real, hands-on ownership of specific projects without a full-time commitment. You'll help define how GPS looks and feels across the touchpoints that matter most right now: our merchandise, our events, and our online storefront. This is a hands-on, creative role suited to someone who loves styling, illustration, and bringing a brand to life in physical and visual form.

Key Responsibilities

Core Focus (your main hours will go here)

• Design and source GPS-branded merchandise — starting with our first t-shirt and woven bag runs — balancing cost, quality, and brand fit (including via platforms like Taobao)
• Assist in styling and setting up product displays at events, pop-ups, and activations, with on-ground presence where required
• Design and maintain a consistent visual merchandising standard for GPS across our online storefront and listings

As Capacity Allows (once ramped up, subject to hours available)

• Support the curation of pet amenity kits for partners, including developing a few variations for different price points or occasions

• Support the early curation and packaging direction of GPS's own house brand of shampoo, cleaner, treats, and similar products

• Help develop unique GPS-branded swag concepts from ideation through sourcing and production

• Concept and produce illustration work for offline touchpoints (event backdrops, signage) and online touchpoints (website, livestreaming)

• Research merchandising trends in the pet and lifestyle retail space to keep GPS distinctive and current

Collaboration

• Collaborate with respective team members to ensure visual merchandising is aligned with brand tone and campaign calendars

What We're Looking For

• Pursuing or recently completed a diploma/degree in Design, Visual Merchandising, Fine Arts, Marketing, or a related field

• A strong eye for aesthetics, styling, and brand consistency

• Illustration or graphic design skills (portfolio/work samples appreciated but not mandatory)

• Comfortable navigating sourcing platforms such as Taobao, or willing to learn quickly

• Organised, resourceful, and comfortable working with ambiguity in a small, early-stage team

• Genuine interest in pets and pet care

• Able to commit to occasional weekend/evening event support and once-a-week evening syncs

What You'll Gain

• A flexible part-time schedule that fits around studies or other commitments
• Real ownership over how a growing pet-care brand looks and feels, from concept to execution
• Direct exposure to founders and cross-functional work with brand, community, and sourcing
• Hands-on experience in both offline (events/merch) and online (storefront) visual merchandising
• Room to take on more scope (amenity kits, own-brand curation, illustration) as you settle in