*Please Note: The official title for this role will be Assistant Studio Manager*

Location: Washington, D.C.  | Reports to: Studio Manager | Full Time

Hourly Rate: $24.75 

The Assistant Studio Manager is a key leadership role focused on supporting the day-to-day operations of the Studio and ensuring a consistently exceptional experience for Studs’s customers. This role serves as the primary partner to the Studio Manager and is expected to step in fully when they are off, maintaining consistency in leadership, execution, and culture.

As part of the Studio leadership team, you’ll help drive revenue, coach team members, and uphold the standards that define our customer experience. You’ll also play an important role in shaping team culture — modeling professionalism, accountability, and our core values. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, customer-facing environment and is ready to lead by example while growing alongside a high-performing team.

Key Responsibilities:

Operational Excellence & Revenue

• Leads day-to-day Studio operations in the Studio Manager’s absence, ensuring smooth execution across all functions
• Manages inventory, supply ordering, and operational task completion with consistency and attention to detail
• Tracks daily business performance and supports execution of sales strategies to drive revenue and hit targets
• Partners with the Studio Manager to identify and act on trends in key metrics, ensuring goals stay on track
• Upholds compliance standards, including safety protocols and piercing regulations, and escalates issues as needed

Customer Experience

• Maintains a consistent presence on the floor to guide the team and ensure an exceptional customer experience
• Actively supports resolution of customer concerns and models service recovery when needed
• Identifies experience trends and advocates for improvements that elevate the Studio environment

Leadership & Team Development

• Acts as a day-to-day leader for the team, setting a high standard for professionalism and accountability
• Provides real-time coaching and clear, actionable feedback to support individual performance
• Contributes to team development in collaboration with the Studio Manager
• Reinforces Studs’s values and fosters a culture of inclusion, collaboration, and continuous improvement

Requirements:

• 1+ year of retail management, customer-facing team leadership experience, and demonstrated track record of operational excellence
• Must be available to work a flexible schedule of five days per week (38-40 hours), including evenings, weekends, and holidays. Must maintain consistent availability
• Weekend availability (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) is required, excluding approved PTO
• Schedules may vary based on business needs, and full-time roles are expected to prioritize Studs as the primary employment commitment
• Must reliably attend all scheduled shifts and maintain consistent availability
• Will be scheduled in the Studio Manager’s absence; performs day-to-day studio operations across all functions
• Comfortable standing for extended periods (up to 8+ hours) and able to lift and move up to 20 lbs
• Comfortable handling chemicals and following all relevant health and safety protocols
• Brings strong judgment, a proactive mindset, and a bias toward ownership and follow-through
• Thrives in a feedback-rich environment and contributes to a collaborative, high-performing team culture

Benefits & Perks

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance (including $0 in-network mental health visits)
• Access to Mental Health and Work/Life Resources  including Online Therapy, Gender Affirmation Support Services, and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Voluntary Life Insurance
• Health and Commuter Tax-Advantaged Accounts
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Paid Time Off and Paid Safe & Sick Leave Accruals
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Sabbatical After 4 Years of Service
• Exclusive Employee Discounts on Piercings and Jewelry (we’ve got your friends and family covered too!)
• Access to PerkSpot and additional benefits such as pet insurance, discounted tickets, personal finance coaching, healthy rewards, and more!

Hill House is seeking a pro-active Store Manager to lead the retail team at our upcoming Georgetown, D.C store and become a pivotal part of our Hill House family. In this role, you'll serve not only as a brand ambassador but also as a key player in building relationships, both internally and externally, to cultivate an unparalleled service culture while coaching and mentoring a passionate team of associates. We are looking for a warm, professional, and dynamic leader to drive our store's sales performance and ensure operational excellence, leading the store’s daily operations, including inventory management and reporting. This is a full-time position with a retail schedule including weekends.

What You'll Do:

• Drive Excellence in Sales & Service:
• Lead by example on the sales floor, playing an active role in engaging with clients, ensuring the highest level of service is provided and client experience goals are met.
• Monitor daily, weekly, and monthly sales performance to identify trends, set action plans, and communicate strategies that align with sales and profitability goals.
• Work cross-functionally with marketing, eCommerce, creative, and operations partners to address business goals and needs.

• Client Development
• Foster an environment where client satisfaction is the top priority, implementing CRM initiatives to retain and develop high-potential clients.
• Lead and collaborate with the team on the development of strategic client retention and acquisition goals; ensure associates deliver goals for client capture/clientele rapport building.
• Capture meaningful client data for the purpose of building relationships to personalize future client development opportunities.
• Operational Leadership:
• Ensure the smooth running of store operations, adhering to policies and procedures, and maintaining operational and visual merchandising standards to meet brand expectations continually.
• Manage inventory effectively, ensuring stock levels are aligned with sales goals and new product launches.
• Oversee financial aspects, including budgeting, expense control, reporting, scheduling, and payroll aiming to maximize profitability.
• Ensure compliance with all company policies including cash handling, register procedures, brand, styling & language
• Talent Management & Development:
• Attract and retain a high-performing team, building a talent pipeline through effective coaching and development plans.
• Conduct regular performance reviews, set clear goals for your team, and foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Handle all employee relations issues in partnership with HQ, ensuring a harmonious and productive work environment.

Who you are:

• A minimum of 7 years of sales management experience in the retail industry, with a bachelor's degree preferred.
• Experience performing in a fast-paced environment with fastidious attention to detail.
• A leader with a proven ability to drive sales, deliver exceptional client experiences, as well as build, lead, and motivate high performing teams  
• Strong business acumen, with the ability to analyze data and trends to make informed decisions.
• Self-motivated with exceptional communication and a motivational attitude; passionate for people development and growth
• Excellent collaboration and delegation skills as well as good decision-making abilities in high pressure situations 
• High degree of flexibility and initiative: exhibit strong organization to effectively plan and execute short- and long-term projects aligned with the global strategy
• Embraces a culture of learning and advocacy
• Maintains a positive attitude and is representative of the Hill House Home brand
• Has lived experiences with people from different backgrounds and diverse teams
• Flexibility to work retail hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Why Work With Us: As a Store Manager on our team, you'll have the opportunity to work in a vibrant and fast-paced environment, representing a prestigious brand. We offer a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a chance to grow your career in retail management. If you're passionate about Hill House, driven to achieve, and ready to lead a team to success, we'd love to hear from you.

Compensation Range: $80,000+ Annually based candidate’s qualifications, skills, and experience.

The Role:

The Floor Lead plays a pivotal role on our store leadership team, driving the success of the store by upholding exceptional customer service standards, fostering team development, and ensuring seamless execution of daily operations. As a key presence on the sales floor, the Floor Lead exemplifies outstanding interpersonal skills and consistently embodies Mejuri’s values. A natural motivator and collaborative team player, they inspire the team with a can-do attitude, creating an engaging and dynamic environment for both staff and customers.

Retail leaders at Mejuri are engaging, nimble, creative and driven. Join us in redefining luxury—one customer, one team member, and one exceptional experience at a time.

Customer:

• STACK: Lead by example and validate the quality of the in-store customer experience by communicating, training, and upholding expectations on the team on Mejuri’s Steps of Selling.
• STACK Leadership: Maximize results and achievement of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), by driving own performance as well as the performance and engagement of the team.
• Services: Ensure positive customer experience and promotion of services offerings including piercing, engraving, and other offerings.
• KPIs: OPH, NPS (85%<), SPH, STACK Leader Segment: Conversion and Sales Success.

Operations:

• Inventory. Participate as needed in the execution of inventory & cycle counts on a monthly basis, ensuring teams have proper technology in place and troubleshooting guidance where needed.
• Order Fulfillment: Participate as needed the back of house flow to support in-store sales, phone sales or BOPIS, ensuring efficiency with packaging and order delivery standards.
• Storage & Organization: Support in maintaining organizational integrity of our BOH up to and including display inventory and sellable inventory, packaging, and all supplies.
• Systems & Technology: Proficient in using point-of-sale systems, inventory management software, and other retail technology.
• Shrink: Support in mitigating internal, external and administrative loss of product.
• Escalations: Participate in Identify and escalate opportunities, gaps, risks and roadblocks with urgency and partner as needed with cross functional teams to resolve

Merchandising:

• Merchandising: Participate in the maintenance of Mejuri’s brand standards of visual presentation, cleanliness and functionality are upheld.
• Fixtures & Maintenance: Support with validating the integrity of all display forms, graphics, furniture, and decor items to manage costs and propel the brand, notifying appropriate teams when display tools are missing or damaged.
• Visual Standards: Participate in coaching and informing all store team members on updates or changes to Visual Merchandising standard practices.
• Merchandising: Participate in ensuring that Mejuri brand standards of visual presentation, cleanliness and functionality.
• Escalations: Flag, identify and action any inefficiencies.

People:

• Onboarding: Participate in the successful integration of new talent to our store teams.
• Assessing: Validate the regular and accurate assessment of our people against performance review criteria and KPIs.
• Engaging: Build healthy relationships with our people and establish a positive and engaging work environment.
• Employee Relations: Adhere to and validate our policies and compliance practices.

What you'll bring to the team:

• Experience in a high volume retail environment.
• Adaptable with the ability to think creatively and quickly.
• Excellent organization and analytical skills.
• Critical thinking ability - identify potential challenges and develop action plans.
• Physical requirements: Ability to stand for 8 hours, lift up to 50 lbs.
• Must be able to work evenings, weekends & holidays in alignment with the stores availability requirements.

Benefits at Mejuri:

• Paid sick days.
• Monthly retail bonus program.
• Regular feedback via performance reviews.
• A robust in-house retail learning program.
• Generous product discount!

#LI-Onsite

Looking for the perfect next opportunity is a big decision. Mejuri recognizes the importance of pay transparency when it comes to salary ranges as it empowers individuals through the hiring process and supports them in making an informed decision. This role currently has a base pay range of $23 - $25 per hour based on a candidate’s experience and qualifications.

The Role:

The Floor Lead plays a pivotal role on our store leadership team, driving the success of the store by upholding exceptional customer service standards, fostering team development, and ensuring seamless execution of daily operations. As a key presence on the sales floor, the Floor Lead exemplifies outstanding interpersonal skills and consistently embodies Mejuri’s values. A natural motivator and collaborative team player, they inspire the team with a can-do attitude, creating an engaging and dynamic environment for both staff and customers.

Retail leaders at Mejuri are engaging, nimble, creative and driven. Join us in redefining luxury—one customer, one team member, and one exceptional experience at a time.

Customer:

• STACK: Lead by example and validate the quality of the in-store customer experience by communicating, training, and upholding expectations on the team on Mejuri’s Steps of Selling.
• STACK Leadership: Maximize results and achievement of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), by driving own performance as well as the performance and engagement of the team.
• Services: Ensure positive customer experience and promotion of services offerings including piercing, engraving, and other offerings.
• KPIs: OPH, NPS (85%<), SPH, STACK Leader Segment: Conversion and Sales Success.

Operations:

• Inventory. Participate as needed in the execution of inventory & cycle counts on a monthly basis, ensuring teams have proper technology in place and troubleshooting guidance where needed.
• Order Fulfillment: Participate as needed the back of house flow to support in-store sales, phone sales or BOPIS, ensuring efficiency with packaging and order delivery standards.
• Storage & Organization: Support in maintaining organizational integrity of our BOH up to and including display inventory and sellable inventory, packaging, and all supplies.
• Systems & Technology: Proficient in using point-of-sale systems, inventory management software, and other retail technology.
• Shrink: Support in mitigating internal, external and administrative loss of product.
• Escalations: Participate in Identify and escalate opportunities, gaps, risks and roadblocks with urgency and partner as needed with cross functional teams to resolve

Merchandising:

• Merchandising: Participate in the maintenance of Mejuri’s brand standards of visual presentation, cleanliness and functionality are upheld.
• Fixtures & Maintenance: Support with validating the integrity of all display forms, graphics, furniture, and decor items to manage costs and propel the brand, notifying appropriate teams when display tools are missing or damaged.
• Visual Standards: Participate in coaching and informing all store team members on updates or changes to Visual Merchandising standard practices.
• Merchandising: Participate in ensuring that Mejuri brand standards of visual presentation, cleanliness and functionality.
• Escalations: Flag, identify and action any inefficiencies.

People:

• Onboarding: Participate in the successful integration of new talent to our store teams.
• Assessing: Validate the regular and accurate assessment of our people against performance review criteria and KPIs.
• Engaging: Build healthy relationships with our people and establish a positive and engaging work environment.
• Employee Relations: Adhere to and validate our policies and compliance practices.

What you'll bring to the team:

• Experience in a high volume retail environment.
• Adaptable with the ability to think creatively and quickly.
• Excellent organization and analytical skills.
• Critical thinking ability - identify potential challenges and develop action plans.
• Physical requirements: Ability to stand for 8 hours, lift up to 50 lbs.
• Must be able to work evenings, weekends & holidays in alignment with the stores availability requirements.

Benefits at Mejuri:

• Paid sick days.
• Monthly retail bonus program.
• Regular feedback via performance reviews.
• A robust in-house retail learning program.
• Generous product discount!

#LI-Onsite

Looking for the perfect next opportunity is a big decision. Mejuri recognizes the importance of pay transparency when it comes to salary ranges as it empowers individuals through the hiring process and supports them in making an informed decision. This role currently has a base pay range of $23 - $25 per annum based on a candidate’s experience and qualifications.