Retail Sales Associate / Design Associate (Home Furnishings)

About the role

Discover a career designed to be different! At Room & Board, our part-time Design/Retail Sales Associate role (3 days a week, 8-hour shifts including weekends) offers an amazing way to balance your current life's work with a fulfilling part-time career.

Responsibilities

• Serve customers with an individualized and consultative approach, understanding their needs while maintaining professionalism and respect in your interactions.
• Build successful relationships with an open-mind and open-heart, leveraging technology, tools, and resources innovatively to create a rich and engaging experience.
• Guide customers through the creative design process, providing the right solution in a collaborative, non-commissioned selling environment.
• Navigate and leverage technology/tools such as the iPad, floor planning software, and POS system to enhance the customer experience.
• Balance the high-paced customer traffic and the range of interactions throughout your shift with stamina and mental fortitude.
• Continuously seek opportunities to build knowledge and hone your craft as a lifelong learner.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience working in a customer-centric, fashion/design savvy retail environment with a passion for design and engaging with customers on the showroom floor.
• Exceptional communication skills, demonstrated confidence, attention to detail, prioritization and organization skills, and a high level of comfort navigating technology and virtual resources.
• Ability to provide proof of identity and legal work authorization upon hire.

Qualifications

• Motivation to serve the customer with an individualized and consultative approach.
• Confidence as a team player, with self-awareness and an ability to build successful relationships.
• Energized by the high-paced customer traffic and the range of interactions throughout your shift.
• Focus on providing the right solution in a collaborative, non-commissioned selling environment.
• Confidence in navigating and leveraging technology/tools such as the iPad, floor planning software, and POS system to enhance the customer experience.
• Lifelong learner mindset, continuously seeking opportunities to build knowledge and hone your craft.

Benefits

• Health benefits
• Three weeks of paid vacation
• 401(k)
• Profit sharing

Pay

$32,000 - $36,000 ($25.64 - $28.85 / hour) depending on experience.

Schedule

Your schedule will be set as Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday. You’ll enjoy one weekend off every 4 weeks. The week in which you have the weekend off, your (2) weekend shifts will be scheduled during the weekday you are typically off, so flexibility with your schedule is necessary.

Location

Job location: 7010 France Avenue South Edina, MN 55435
Store Hours: Monday – Friday: 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. Saturday: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Sunday: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Room & Board is an equal employment opportunity employer. Our policy is not to unlawfully discriminate against any applicant or staff member on the basis of age, race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, disability, or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state, or local laws.