Visual Merchandising Lead - 3 days/week (potential for full time)

Leif Inc; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 33,000 - 39,000; Part time

Job summary

Leif Inc is seeking a visually oriented team member to move between our Williamsburg, Brooklyn locations, maintaining displays and assisting customers. The role requires prior styling/visual merchandising experience and a knack for keeping spaces organized. It starts part-time with a path to full-time as the shop grows.

You will be on the floor engaging customers during open hours, ensuring displays stay polished while supporting quick restocks and seasonal updates across both stores.

Qualifications

• Prior styling experience (ie prop styling/interior styling) and/or prior visual merchandising experience.
• Able to pivot between merchandising and helping customers as needed.
• Comfortable in a high-traffic, fast-paced environment.
• Retail experience preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and rearrange products and fixtures on display in a high-volume environment.
• Update window displays on a monthly basis.
• Quarterly, full-day floor resets.
• Identify missing or mis-tagged products on the sales floor.
• Assist customers on the floor as needed (retail core duties).
• Day-to-day cleaning and upkeep of store displays.

Skills

Visual merchandising

Styling

Customer service

Retail experience

Fast-paced environment

Job description

About the role:

This role moves between our two retail locations throughout the week, keeping our displays, tables and shelves looking organized, consistent & pretty as can be. Since you'll be actively on the floor and directly encountering customers while the shop is open, you'll need to be comfortable with seamlessly moving in and out of a sales & customer service role when needed. This role would start out as part time, and ideally become full time later down the line.

Please note that prior visual experience is non-negotiable for this role. Prior styling experience (ie prop styling/interior styling) or prior visual merchandising experience is mandatory. If you are interested in this role but do not have prior relevant experience, we recommend applying to our Sales Associate roles, where you'll also get to dabble in visual merchandising albeit to a lesser extent.

Location:

This role will move between our two Williamsburg, Brooklyn retail locations — 99 Grand Street (Home & Gift) and 319 Graham Avenue (Home & Woman).

Schedule:

3 days/week to start. Potential to transition to full time once established.

Compensation:

$24 — $28/hr (dependent on relevant experience).

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About us:

Established in 2011, LEIF is an independent lifestyleboutiquewith a strong e-commerce and brick & mortar presence. Our specialty is creating a truly unique retail experience: in our expertly curatedcollection you'll find an assortment of products that you're unlikely to find at any other store. We aim to invokea feeling of joyful discovery in our assortment (with a range of price points from accessible to aspirational) the main criteria of which is: an aesthetically pleasing product that brings joy or comfort to the everyday. All in a welcoming, authentic and warm environment that doesn't ever feelexclusiveor pretentious — a store filled with beautiful things (which you likely haven't seen in a bunch of other shops) where the people are nice to you! We think you’ll be…

About you:

• You're creative and visually inclined, with an eye for style and detail.


• You're extremely passionate about aesthetics, particularly home decor and/or clothing.


• You have an eye for noticing even the tiniest little things!


• You have a knack for problem solving and noticing when things are off or could be improved


• You're comfortable with and capable of working at a fast pace (ideally, your default)


• You're very organized with an above-average attention to detail.


• Youenjoy being busy and aren't stressed out by a little bit of occasional chaos.


• You're great at working with customers in a retail setting.

Responsibilities include:

• Day-to-day maintenance, styling and re-arranging of a wide range of products and fixtures on display in a high-volume, high-turnover environment


• Update window displays on a monthly basis (or as needed)


• Quarterly, full-day floor resets


• Identify products that may be missing from the sales floor and put out as needed


• Identify products with missing tags, damages, etc.


• Identify opportunities for re-placement of products that aren't moving as they should


• Work with customers on the floor as needed (the basic core responsibilities of our sales associate position are also part of this role)


• Day-to-day cleaning/dusting/sweeping of the store, displays & fixtures

Primary requirements:

• Prior styling experience (ie prop styling/interior styling), and/or prior visual merchandising experience


• Able to seamlessly pivot back and forth between merchandising and helping customers as needed


• Comfortable and able to perform well in a high-traffic, fast-paced environment


• Some retail experience (even if very old!) is preferred but not required