Junior

E-commerce Sales Coordinator / E-commerce Sales Associate

As an E-commerce Sales Coordinator (junior), you work alongside senior coordinators while learning to coordinate across e-commerce sales operations — supporting product launches, helping with promotional activity, learning cross-functional partnership. The work tends to be supervised and coordination-oriented.

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What it's like

What it's like to be a E-commerce Sales Coordinator / E-commerce Sales Associate

Most days mix supervised coordination work with structured learning — supporting senior coordinators on product launches and promotional rollouts, helping with cross-functional coordination across marketing, operations, and creative teams, learning project management tools, and contributing to documentation. You're often working at retailers, DTC brands, marketplace sellers, or specialty e-commerce operations, and the platform and operating model shape early work.

What tends to be harder than people expect is the cross-functional coordination required at junior level. E-commerce activity touches marketing, merchandising, operations, customer service, and product, and launch timelines create predictable workload spikes. Tools (Asana, Jira, specialty PM platforms), mentorship quality, and exposure to multiple program types shape early career growth.

People who tend to thrive here are organized, comfortable with cross-functional work, patient with stakeholder coordination, and willing to learn from senior staff. If you want pure analytical or creative work, those are different paths. If you like building a foundation in e-commerce coordination work, the early years build a base toward senior coordinator, e-commerce ops, or program leadership.

IndependenceAbove avg
AchievementModerate
Working ConditionsModerate
RelationshipsModerate
RecognitionLower
SupportLower
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Career Paths

Where this role sits in the broader career landscape — and where it can take you.

$239K$179K$119K$60K$0KLower paying387 metro areas, sorted by salary level
All experience levels1
This level's estimated range
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1 BLS OEWS May 2024 covers all E-commerce Sales Coordinator / E-commerce Sales Associates (SOC 13-1199.06), not just this title · BEA RPP 2023
* Top salaries exceed this figure. BLS caps reported wages at ~$240K to protect individual privacy in high-earning roles.
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The Broader Landscape

Roles like this one sit within a broader occupational category. The numbers below reflect that full landscape — helpful for context, but your specific experience will depend on level, specialty, and where you work.

$46K–$148K
Salary Range
10th – 90th percentile
1.1M
U.S. Employment
+3%
10yr Growth
108K
Annual Openings

How this category is changing

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Skills & Requirements

Reading ComprehensionSpeakingCritical ThinkingActive ListeningWritingPersuasionService OrientationJudgment and Decision MakingSocial PerceptivenessMonitoring
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