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Full-Time Assistant Manager

BoxLunch & Hot Topic

Des Peres, MOFull-timePosted 5y agoStill listed 6 days ago

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Compensation
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Location
Des Peres, MO
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Hot Topic seeks a Full-Time Assistant Manager to support the Store Manager in meeting sales objectives, recruiting and developing associates, and delivering an engaging in-store customer experience. The role includes leading store operations, monitoring payroll and schedules, using sales reports to guide strategy, merchandising products, and promoting new products and services. Candidates need at least 1–2 years of retail store management experience and a high school diploma or GED equivalent.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Communication, requiredRecruiting, requiredRetail Operations, requiredPayroll, requiredReporting, requiredScheduling, requiredMerchandising, requiredTime Management, requiredProfessionalism, requiredTeam Development, requiredAdaptability, requiredStore Navigation, requiredProduct Handling, required

Qualifications

1+ Years Retail Management, requiredHigh School Diploma or GED, requiredAbility to Lift 50 Pounds, required

Full 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 Full-Time Assistant Manager 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

How this job compares

Set against the 2,600 open Retail Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • US median$57–70K/yr573 salary ranges
  • US median$20–24/hr811 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 68 open Retail Management jobs in Missouri and 2,600 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Missouri
Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Retail Management postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years at the median (1,232 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 889 of the 2,600 open Retail Management jobs (34%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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