Part-Time Assistant Manager - Level 2

BoxLunch & Hot Topic; Allen (TX); On-site; USD 20,664,000 - 30,307,000; Part time

Job summary

Hot Topic is seeking a Part-Time Assistant Manager – Level 2 to lead our store team with energy, manage operations, and drive sales in a fast-paced retail environment.

You will support the Store Manager in achieving sales targets, recruiting and developing a passionate team, and promoting new products with customer engagement strategies. This role emphasizes leadership, operations, and a strong store presence.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years of retail store management experience.
• Strong communication, recruiting, operations, and development of your team.
• Ability to manage payroll hours, scheduling, and sales reporting.
• High school diploma or GED; degree is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Support Store Manager in achieving sales plans and comp goals.
• Recruit, develop, and retain a collaborative store team.
• Promote new products and drive customer engagement (BOPIS, curbside pickup).
• Provide leadership for an operational, customer-first store culture.
• Monitor shrink, payroll hours, and associate schedules.
• Communicate trends and feedback with retail leadership and HQ.
• Run sales reports and use data to guide strategy.
• Merchandise the store using planograms and execute promos on time.
• Develop a high-performing team of loyal associates.

Skills

Retail management

Team leadership

Communication

Recruiting

Operations

Payroll & scheduling

Merchandising

Planograms

Data-driven selling

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

At Hot Topic, we’re passionate about a few things: music, pop culture, and creating the most amazing in-store experience for our customers and employees.

We’re on the search for a Part-Time Assistant Manager – Level 2 that will help lead the loudest store in the mall. You’ll support the Store Manager in achieving store objectives with regards to hitting sales targets, recruiting, and development. You’re Harry Potter and Luke Skywalker rolled into one; you can handle anything that comes your way while driving sales and building lifelong relationships with our customers.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Support your Store Manager in achieving the sales plan and/or comp sales goals. It’s not all about the Benjamins, but then it kind of is
• Help recruit, develop, and retain a super collaborative, passionate team to run your store alongside you
• You’re the store’s #1 fan – you’ll create buzz and customer engagement through promotion of new products, use social media platforms, and additional benefits such as BOPIS and curbside pickup
• Provide leadership around running an operationally sound business; you’ll bring the right balance of ops, delegation/autonomy, and customer-first selling practices
• Keep watch (like the Night’s Watch) on shrink/loss prevention, payroll hours, and associate schedules
• Collaboratively communicate with retail leadership and HQ partners on trends & customer feedback
• Run sales reports and use data to help guide your strategy to hit sales targets
• You’ll merchandise the store in a compelling way, leveraging planograms as a guide, while launching all promos on time. In short, you’ll deliver the goods!
• Every Frodo needs a Fellowship! In partnership with your Store Manager, you’ll develop your team of loyal associates that are high-performing and customer-focused

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

• At least 1-2 years of retail store management experience. If you love music and pop culture, you're in the right place!
• You’ve led teams to success and want to experience more of it. You’ll have skills to pay the bills: communication, recruiting, operations (payroll, reporting, scheduling, merchandising), and be a developer of your peeps
• You have Avenger-like skills: communication, time management, professionalism, operations, and a drive to develop your peeps
• A high school diploma or GED equivalent. If you have a degree, even better
• Roll with the punches. Retail is a fast-changing industry and you like catching curveballs thrown your way
• The usual retail stuff (with or without reasonable accommodation): able to navigate your way around the store, merchandise product utilizing approved store equipment, and pack and unpack boxes of awesome merch that may weigh up to 50 pounds