Design Sales Associate – New York, NY - 58th + Lexington

Blu Dot; New York (NY); On-site; USD 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Blu Dot in New York, NY, invites a Design Sales Associate to deliver an authentic Blu Dot store experience through expert product knowledge, design storytelling, and exceptional service.

You will help customers, meet monthly sales goals, present design options, assist with merchandising, and participate in weekend shifts. Authorized to work in the United States; design retail experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• Experience in customer-facing sales roles.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work weekends and stand for long periods.
• Authorized to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Represent the Blu Dot brand with an authentic selling experience.
• Sell with product knowledge to demonstrate features and benefits.
• Enhance the shopping experience by understanding client needs.
• Meet monthly sales goals and maximize profitability.
• Suggest additional items using Blu Dot design services.
• Follow up on shipping or delivery concerns to close sales.
• Drive residential and trade business through outreach.
• Maintain visual merchandising standards and showroom cleanliness.
• Assist in seasonal floor changes, including light assembly.
• Capture customer emails for promotions and events.
• Host in-store activations for current and new clients.
• Weekend availability is required.

Skills

Creative problem-solving

Customer service

Time management

Collaboration

Analytical thinking

Tech savviness

Inclusion advocate

Job description

Design Sales Associate - New York, NY - 58th & Lexington

Reports to: Store Manager

About Us

Blu Dot (www.bludot.com), an award-winning designer and maker of modern home furnishings, is currently searching for a sales professional to join our dynamic and values-driven company.

Company Purpose

Inspire a more creative way of living through good design that's good to everyone.

Core Values

• Good design is good. Good design should be reflected in everything we do.
• Keep it simple. Strive for economy in all that you do.
• Everyone is invited to our party. Treat every individual with respect & dignity.
• Our glass is half full. Focus on the positive.
• Be humble. We take nothing for granted.
• Turn it up to 11. Determine what is expected and do a little more.
• Stay curious. Try, learn, improve, repeat.

About the Role

Be a Blu Dot design expert. Create a compelling Blu Dot store experience through exceptional service, excellence in merchandise presentation, and cultivation of an all-inclusive, design clubhouse. Tell the Blu Dot story and advance Blu Dot's reputation as an American design studio in the NYC market.

Who You Are

• Creative and clever problem-solver with solutions-oriented approach to daily tasks
• Friendly and authentic individual with customer skills across all mediums
• Time-management guru with an ability to prioritize competing demands
• Adept and willing collaborator able to work independently and take direction appropriately
• Analytical, detail-driven investigator capable of contextualizing the big picture
• Focused on process improvement and able to pick up and integrate new technologies with ease
• A champion for inclusion and belonging for everyone who walks through our doors; colleagues and customers alike

What You Will Do

• Represent and expand the customer's connection to the Blu Dot brand through an authentic selling experience
• Sell with authority using product information and design knowledge to demonstrate design features and benefits
• Enhance the client shopping experience through an awareness of the client's needs and Blu Dot's capabilities
• Meet monthly sales goals and maximize profitability
• Build the sale by suggesting additional items using our design services
• See sales through to completion and follow up with the customer as necessary to resolve shipping or delivery concerns
• Drive residential and residential trade business through outreach and prospecting, including coordinating swatch requests
• Execute and maintain visual merchandising standards and general cleanliness of showroom
• Assist in seasonal floor change including light furniture assembly and some lifting
• Capture and utilize customer emails for communicating sales, events and promotions
• Host in-store activations for current and new clients
• Availability to work weekends is required
• Ability to stand for long periods during shifts and occasional reaching, crouching, or lifting up to 50 lbs.
• Everyone's welcome to our party! Blu Dot always welcomes candidates with unique and diverse backgrounds. Blu Dot is a member of E-Verify. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States.

Salary: $26.00 per hour