Store Marketing Specialist (Retail)

Location: CT - Stamford Star Point, United States. The role requires approximately 50% travel across North America and significant in-store presence.

Company

hirify.global creates thoughtfully designed, durable furnishings through brands including Design Within Reach, with a focus on modern design and a sustainable, equitable future.

What you will do

• Support retail marketing strategy for store openings, relocations, remodels, and emerging markets.
• Develop localized marketing plans, scalable playbooks, and store programs that drive traffic, customer engagement, and brand loyalty.
• Coordinate opening activations, local sponsorships, partnerships, public relations, and community engagement.
• Spend significant time in stores building relationships with retail teams, evaluating customer experience, and identifying local opportunities.
• Collaborate with Retail, Creative, PR, Brand, Trade, Partnerships, Visual, Events, Merchandising, Digital, and Operations teams.
• Track store-level performance, foot traffic, customer engagement, and market trends, then recommend improvements.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of marketing or retail marketing experience, ideally in luxury, lifestyle, design, or experiential brands.
• Experience developing and executing field or local marketing strategies, including store openings.
• Strong relationship-building, project management, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Comfort working in person, on the road, and closely with retail teams.
• Ability to travel approximately 50% across North America.
• Passion for modern design and the Design Within Reach brand.

Culture & Benefits

• Customer-first, hospitality-driven retail environment.
• High autonomy, accountability, and ownership of marketing programs.
• Opportunities to build new processes, programs, and customer experiences.
• Equal opportunity employment with a commitment to accessibility and inclusion.
• hirify.global participates in E-Verify Employment Eligibility Verification.