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About the Role
The Whitney Museum of American Art seeks an ambitious and experienced Sales Associate to join the Whitney Retail Team in a Part-Time Temporary role for 12 weeks. The associate will delight customers with product knowledge and customer service skills while meeting sales goals and developing a loyal onsite and online audience for the Whitney Museum Shop.
Responsibilities
- Providing impeccable customer service by engaging, understanding, and fulfilling customers' needs
- Efficiently and accurately process sales transactions across multiple sales channels and technology platforms
- Responsibly handle cash and credit card transactions, and open and close cash drawers
- Actively maintain high standards of merchandise presentation, visually and verbally
- Assist in coordinating the breakdown of the retail shop for events
- Perform inventory counts as scheduled
- Restocking of supplies and product
- Inventory maintenance
- Assist in receiving and packaging
- Mail order processing (online and in store)
- Selling and providing hospitality service
Requirements
- Strong public-facing customer service skills
- Accurate cash handling skills
- Outgoing and professional attitude
- Previous POS and inventory experience
- Ability to lift and carry moderate merchandise weights
- Interest in arts & culture
- Open availability, especially on weekends
- An appreciation of diverse audiences and work environments is essential
- Additional languages are a plus
Work Type
- Part-Time
- Temporary
Education Level
- BA preferred but not required
Salary/Compensations
- Pay rate of $24.00 per hour
Benefits
- Commuter benefits - parking and mass transit
- Admission to world-renowned museums across the city and nationally
About the Company
- The Whitney Museum of American Art, founded in 1930 by the artist and philanthropist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, houses the foremost collection of American art from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
- The Whitney has been championing the most innovative art of the United States for 86 years.
- The core of the Whitney’s mission is to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit American art of our time and serve a wide variety of audiences in celebration of the complexity and diversity of art and culture in the United States.
- The Whitney has long been a powerful force in support of modern and contemporary art and continues to help define what is innovative and influential in American art today.
Equal Opportunity
- The Whitney Museum of American Art is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- The Museum does not discriminate because of age, sex, religion, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, pregnancy, partnership status, caregiver status, veteran status, gender (including gender identity), sexual orientation, genetic information, predisposition, or carrier status, arrest or conviction record to the extent required by applicable law, credit history, domestic violence, sexual violence, or stalking victim status, or any other factor prohibited by law.
- The Museum hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.
- The Museum encourages all qualified candidates to apply for vacant positions at all levels.