Sales Associate
CAMP
Salary undisclosed
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Description
What is the Role?
We are looking for a retail Sales Associate (part-time) to join our CAMP team! You will be responsible for guiding CAMP’s families through our retail experience, ensuring they have a magical experience and want to return! This includes:
- Bring the CAMP brand to life. Provide a fully immersive experience for customers of all ages by:
- This involves engaging in conversations with families about what they are interested in and for what ages and introducing them to relevant items as well as items they didn't know they want or need, ultimately leading to purchases!
- Welcoming every guest who walks into our store with a custom greeting and performing your own magic door entrance!
- Playing with and engaging families as they journey through the CAMP experience
- Demoing and playing with products
- Working at the crafting or slime bar
- Customizing personal shopping experiences for each family based on their interests and what they’d like to bring home that day.
- Checking families out at the register and letting them know about upcoming programs or other CAMP news
- Achieve sales targets and KPI’s through consistent commitment to providing best in class selling experiences
- Build repeat customer base by creating a selling culture that is approachable, unique and tailored to individual customer needs
- Support a positive and productive work environment that fosters diversity, inclusivity, teamwork, creativity and a passion for the Camp brand
- Assist in merchandising and replenishing the sales floor to ensure the store is fully stocked and always customer ready
- Communicate customer and store needs to General Manager and store leadership to ensure the store operates efficiently at all times
- Assist with Back of House tasks to ensure organized and efficient store operations
- Support the General Manager and leadership team with goal achievement (KPIs)
- You will report to the General Manager (GM) of your home store location
- Other duties as assigned
What is required?
- Ability to work at least one weekend day/week, but ideally both!
- This role is part-time, and you will be working approximately between 5 - 25 hours / each week
- Positive attitude in all situations
- Passion for selling and working with people
- Prior work experience in any of the following areas: retail, child-care, child development/ education, performing arts.
- Excellence, enthusiasm, and excitement around engaging with children and families creatively.
- Desire to be part of a tight-knit team looking to transform the traditional retail experience.
- Patience, warmth, joy, and humor.
- Bonus but not required: you may have hidden talents that can add magical moments to our retail experience.
- 18 years of age or older
- Authorized to work in the US
What are the physical demands?
- Ability to stock merchandise from store receiving to shelving; ability to place product, weighing up to 45 pounds, on shelving at various heights (may be climbing up and down a ladder)
- Exposure to outdoor elements such as sun, precipitation, and wind
- Regularly required to sit, stand, bend, reach, push, pull, lift, carry and walk about the store
- Ability to safely operate manual and electrical equipment from time to time
- Able to be on your feet for up to 8 hours per shift and to continuously move around all areas of the store
- Kneeling and squatting from time to time when engaging children or stocking / restocking shelves
Compensation: $17.50/hr
We provide our team with the following perks:
- Employee Assistance Program: offers support around Education, Legal and Financial Planning, Career Development, Lifestyle and Fitness Management, Mental Health, and Dependent Care
- 20% off all merchandise at CAMP’s retail stores
- 1.5 pay on the following holidays: Independence Day, Labor Day, New Years Day, Martin Luther King Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth
About this role
CAMP's Chicago retail location is seeking a part-time Sales Associate to create engaging, immersive shopping experiences for families. You'll be the face of the brand—greeting guests with custom entrances, demonstrating products, staffing the crafting and slime bar, and guiding families through the store by understanding their interests and introducing them to items that spark joy and purchases. The role blends genuine customer connection with sales targets, requiring you to build repeat business through personalized service while maintaining a welcoming, creative atmosphere.
This position suits someone with prior experience in retail, childcare, education, or performing arts who genuinely enjoys working with children and families. You'll need patience, warmth, and enthusiasm to engage across age groups, plus the physical stamina to be on your feet for up to eight hours, stock merchandise up to 45 pounds, and move fluidly through the store. Weekend availability is essential—ideally both days—with hours ranging from 5 to 25 per week.
At $17.50 per hour, the role includes 20% employee discount on merchandise, 1.5x pay on select holidays, and access to an Employee Assistance Program covering education, mental health, career development, and other support services. You'll report to the General Manager and contribute to store operations, merchandising, and team culture alongside your customer-facing responsibilities.
Typical pay for this role
$20,000
Typical range: $20,000 to $40,000
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