Careers

May 2025

Part-time sales associate - job description:

Are you an aesthetically driven, organized, and positive people person with luxury and/or fine jewelry sales experience?  Do you love making spaces look beautiful, connecting with people, and being surrounded by handmade things and wonderful team mates?  Do you live in Sonoma County?  Keep reading!  We are a fine jewelry, art and home goods boutique in west Sonoma County seeking a part time sales associate 2-3 days a week.  We are a small and tight knit team of 4 looking for someone who fits well into our positive, inspiring, and hard working environment.  This position pays an hourly rate plus commission of sales and is required on site in the store.  The ideal candidate will have 1-3 years of in-person retail experience, ideally in the jewelry industry, and be comfortable having one on one interactions with customers.  Experience in Marketing, Photography, Shopify, Retail Management, and knowledge of fine jewelry production is a huge plus.  Please express interest or experience in any of these specific directions in your cover letter.  This is primarily a sales position with room for future growth, possibly into a full time position.  We are looking for the right person to join our tight knit team long term and grow along with our small business!

Job description:

• Assisting customers with sales
• Keeping the storefront clean and organized
  
• Performing opening and closing tasks
• Assisting manager on shipping orders
• Intaking custom clients and repairs
• Communicating with clients via email
• Inventory tasks
  
• Reporting to the store manager and owner daily
  
• Various other tasks to be assigned by store manager and owner

Requirements:

• 2-3 days a week / part time / 16-24 hrs (preferably 3 days a week)
• Sales associate - base pay of $21-25/hr based on experience with fine jewelry sales, plus a generous sales commission.
• 1-3 years Retail Experience.
• Availability during store's open hours - Fri-Monday.  (Fridays are non negotiable)
  
• Learning brand and artist knowledge, ability to promote over 30 artists and the brand to new clientele.
• Comfortable closing high end fine jewelry sales, intaking custom jewelry clients and communicating with the Erin Cuff Jewelry production studio.
• Confidence in selling high end products.
• Strong customer service and communication skills.
• Proficient with Shopify, Mac, Google, and Asana, or willing to learn
• Positive Mental Attitude, Works well with a team, Self starting, Highly Organized.
• Appreciation for the handmade.
• Reliable transportation
• Local to Sonoma County

Additional skills to mention:

• Shopify, Instagram Content creation, Planoly, Photoshop, Canva, CAD, Mailchimp and/or Asana proficiency 
• Ideally this person is visually inclined with some experience in product photography and/or content creation, and can help from time to time to photograph products for our social media channels!
• Marketing 
• Management experience
• Fine Jewelry Production
• Fine Jewelry Sales
• Graphic design 
• Copywriting

Please send resume along with cover letter to Erin@shopcochineal.com