Location: Los Angeles, CA
Work Type: Full-time
Salary Range: $60,000-80,000 annually
Start Date: Immediate
Introduction
Thyseed is a premium baby-feeding brand focused on helping parents through stressful feeding moments with high-quality baby bottles and feeding products. As we build our US business from the ground up, we are looking for a hands-on Marketing & Business Operations Manager to support marketing, HR, and day-to-day business operations.
Professional, working-level Mandarin Chinese speaking and writing ability is required, because this role will work closely with Thyseed’s China-based leadership and operations teams.
Key Responsibilities
Marketing and Channel Development
- Develop local marketing programs that support brand awareness, parent education, and sales.
- Prepare online and offline marketing activations, and drive execution of marketing materials, digital campaigns, and offline events.
- Support the development of local PR/KOLs and content production campaigns, partner marketing, and event executions.
- Coordinate product demonstrations, retail promotions, community activations, and local brand events.
- Develop co-marketing opportunities with retailers, healthcare professionals, parenting organizations, and complementary brands.
- Identify and approach suitable offline sales channels, including baby boutiques, specialty retailers, healthcare professionals, lactation centers, parenting organizations, hospitals, and regional distributors.
HR and Team Operations
- Coordinate US recruitment, interviews, candidate communication, onboarding, and maintain relevant HR compliance / employee documentation.
- Manage payroll, benefits, insurance, and other HR needs to ensure California regulatory compliance.
- Maintain employee records, policies, leave tracking, and required documentation.
- Support team planning, hiring plans, role development, and performance review processes.
- Help manage day-to-day employee needs, internal communication, and cross-functional coordination.
- Support communication between the US team and China-based leadership.
Admin
- Track US budgets, expenses, invoices, vendor payments, and major spending items.
- Coordinate with accountants, payroll providers, banks, vendors, and the China finance team.
- Coordinate product logistics, warehousing, shipping, and product storage.
- Monitor inventory levels, inbound shipments, fulfillment issues, returns, replacements, and damaged products.
- Assist with office, equipment, software, travel, meetings, and other general administrative needs.
- Support purchase approvals, contracts, insurance, vendor administration, and basic recordkeeping.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in marketing operations, HR operations, business operations, or a related field.
- Experience supporting local marketing, business development, and community activations.
- Experience coordinating recruitment, onboarding, payroll, benefits, and key HR compliance processes.
- Strong organizational, communication, and project-management skills.
- Able to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and solve practical problems.
- Detail-oriented and comfortable handling both external-facing projects and internal administrative work.
- Professional working-level Mandarin Chinese speaking and writing ability is required.
How to Apply
Please submit your resume and a short introduction explaining:
- Your relevant marketing and California HR experience
- Why you are interested in helping build Thyseed’s US business
Equal Opportunity Statement
Thyseed is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with legal requirements.
Pay: $60,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person