Member since September 2019
Jessica is an e-commerce and marketplaces expert with extensive experience building and scaling brands via third party partnerships. With over 15 years in the e-commerce industry, Lesesky has held several senior leadership positions focused on revenue generation, ecommerce strategy, marketing and product development at Assurant, RetailMeNot and Barnes & Noble. She also spent a number of years at eBay as the vertical account lead in fashion and director of the Home & Garden category, where she oversaw a 600million GMV portfolio and was responsible for driving category growth among the largest brands, retailers and B2C sellers on eBay.
As Chief Revenue Officer at Spoonflower, she oversees all aspects of the ecommerce customer experience including product management, product development, customer service, brand and digital marketing and strategic partnerships. She successfully led Spoonflower to triple-digit growth and an acquisition by Shutterfly Inc in 2021.
My passion is when companies take risks, developing and seeing talent thrive, finding purpose at work, being authentic and driving positive change.
My 15-year career in the e-commerce space is far away from a childhood in the tobacco fields of North Carolina.
I grew up in the small town - only 400 hundred people as of 2018 - of Salemburg, North Carolina where I worked on the family tobacco farm. In the hot summer months, I was consistently stuck with the hardest job on the farm. The intensive manual labor everyone else avoided, I was volunteered for, like following the tobacco harvester to pick up scraps that were left behind. So at a very young age, I appreciated the value of hard work.
When I wasn’t spending summers in the field, I would join my grandfather at the Five and Dime store or my Aunt’s clothing boutique in Wilmington, NC another place where I became exposed to the world of retail. And I was hooked.
After graduating college, my first foray into the world of e-commerce came when I joined ChannelAdvisor and became immersed in the world of online retail and marketplaces, learning valuable lessons in operational scaling and the highs and lows of a start up environment. After 6 years at ChannelAdvisor, I was tapped to lead new revenue initiatives at Barnes & Noble under former President, John Foley (now CEO of Peloton). John taught me the importance of having a soul and a purpose when leading and how staying true to that mission, while not always easy enables you to find genuine fulfillment professionally and personally.
I've been searching for that fulfillment in a variety of ways taking roles at established companies like eBay and startups like Anatwine (acquired by Zalando) and it wasn't until joining Spoonflower that I truly experienced what John had shared with me many years ago. You have to really believe in what you're doing or it will not matter.
My 15-year career in the e-commerce space is far away from a childhood in the tobacco fields of North Carolina.
I grew up in the small town - only 400 hundred people as of 2018 - of Salemburg, North Carolina where I worked on the family tobacco farm. In the hot summer months, I was consistently stuck with the hardest job on the farm. The intensive manual labor everyone else avoided, I was volunteered for, like following the tobacco harvester to pick up scraps that were left behind. So at a very young age, I appreciated the value of hard work.
When I wasn’t spending summers in the field, I would join my grandfather at the Five and Dime store or my Aunt’s clothing boutique in Wilmington, NC another place where I became exposed to the world of retail. And I was hooked.
After graduating college, my first foray into the world of e-commerce came when I joined ChannelAdvisor and became immersed in the world of online retail and marketplaces, learning valuable lessons in operational scaling and the highs and lows of a start up environment. After 6 years at ChannelAdvisor, I was tapped to lead new revenue initiatives at Barnes & Noble under former President, John Foley (now CEO of Peloton). John taught me the importance of having a soul and a purpose when leading and how staying true to that mission, while not always easy enables you to find genuine fulfillment professionally and personally.
I've been searching for that fulfillment in a variety of ways taking roles at established companies like eBay and startups like Anatwine (acquired by Zalando) and it wasn't until joining Spoonflower that I truly experienced what John had shared with me many years ago. You have to really believe in what you're doing or it will not matter.
