The Work
You will create realistic retail planning exercises and evaluate how well submitted solutions handle merchandising decisions. The work combines practical retail judgment, commercial modeling, retail mathematics, and consistent scoring against clear evaluation rubrics.
- Design tasks covering assortment planning, promotional strategy, product allocation, planograms, and retail commercial modeling.
- Create reference solutions that show sound merchandising methods.
- Score retail planning submissions consistently using structured rubrics.
- Review work with peers, use calibration feedback, and resolve edge cases involving retail math and allocation logic.
- Build and assess scenarios using sell-through, GMROI, open-to-buy, margin mix, and inventory turnover metrics.
What You Need And When
This is a 12-week contractor engagement. The role is open worldwide and requires English fluency, with at least four hours of overlap with Pacific Time. The listed experience level is entry level, while the role requirements call for substantial hands-on retail expertise.
- At least 20 hours per week, with a commitment of four hours per day and up to 40 hours per week.
- Open worldwide.
- Fluent in English.
- Three to 15 years of hands-on experience in retail merchandising, buying, category management, or inventory allocation.
- Expertise in assortment architecture, product allocation, and merchandise financial planning.
- Experience creating and analyzing assortment plans, visual planograms, and promotional calendars.
- Strong command of GMROI, inventory turns, markdowns, margin impact, and weeks of supply.
- Able to follow structured rubrics, take part in peer review, and explain decisions clearly in writing.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience in AI evaluation, data annotation, content review, quality assurance, or related analytical work is helpful.
How It Works
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About AI Training Work
AI training work uses human-created examples and reviews to help improve artificial intelligence systems. This role applies experienced retail judgment to create realistic examples and assess model outputs against practical merchandising standards.