
Seasonal Key Holder
Murfreesboro, TNSeasonalSeen 2w agoStill listed 3 days ago
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Job overview
As a Hot Topic Seasonal Key Holder, the employee supports store leadership with daily operations and sales targets while helping customers find merchandise. The role includes training new recruits, maintaining sales-floor standards, processing transactions, supporting merchandising and pickup services, sharing trend information, preventing theft, and keeping the stock room and store organized. The posting seeks previous retail experience, customer service and selling abilities, a high school diploma or GED, and collaboration, communication, and leadership skills.
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Full job description
We’re looking for music and pop culture fanatics to help create the best experience for our customers. As a Hot Topic Seasonal Key Holder, you’ll be a huge part of our success by supporting the store leadership team in providing the best customer experience, ensuring that fellow fans are able to get their hands on the merch they love. You’ll use your fandom knowledge to help train new recruits and ensure their success, while also supporting your Store Manager in daily operations and meeting sales targets.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Provide an amazing shopping experience that will encourage customers to return. They'll be impressed by your product knowledge, customer experience skills, and use of the Force
- Cover the sales floor zone and ensure that assigned areas are up to visual standards
- Work the register - you'll use your fandom knowledge to process sales transactions and drive add-on sales using additional benefits such as BOPIS and curbside pickup Assist with planogram changes including store map, wall, fixture, & merchandising mix
- Let your voice be heard! You'll communicate fashion & music trend information to management and respective HQ partners
- While we welcome wizards, we don't like it when spells are stolen. You'll work with Store Management to ensure there's no misuse of spells and wizardry around theft
- Support the maintenance of the mother ship; you'll help keep the stock room organized and the store tidy
- Smells like Team Spirit – you love communicating and working as a team to get the job done
- Any other activities as assigned by your Store Leader
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
- Previous experience working in a retail environment. If you love music and pop culture, you’re in the right place!
- Superpowers in providing customer service and selling
- A High School Diploma or GED equivalent
- Avenger like collaboration and communication skills, as well as Captain America-like leadership
- The usual retail stuff: able to stand and walk around during scheduled hours, reaching for merch using a ladder, step stool and pole. You’ll also have to be able to move around boxes of awesome merchandise that may weigh up to 50 pounds
How this job compares
Set against the 3,773 open Retail jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$51–72K/yr296 salary ranges
- Tennessee median$15/hr22 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 101 open Retail jobs in Tennessee and 3,773 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Tennessee
- Cracker Barrel23 open
- BoxLunch & Hot Topic (this employer)16 open
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- Experience
- Retail postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (958 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 1,582 of the 3,773 open Retail jobs (42%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 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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