Jaded London

Streetwear and fashion retail

Director of Retail

Retail Store ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeNew York, NY, USA$120k - $150k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

Extensive retail experience within the United States as an experienced Director of Retail.
Experience trading stock in a fast-paced United States retail store.
Strong leadership skills, drive, and passion to succeed and develop the brand.
Ability to develop innovative and commercially successful retail opportunities.
In-depth knowledge of building a retail brand, store operations, retail standards, visual merchandising, and marketing execution.
General business awareness and an instinct for profit and trading opportunities.
Ability to set goals, establish performance standards, and manage short-, medium-, and long-term objectives.
Ability to interface effectively with different functions and levels, and motivate senior managers and store teams.
Results-driven approach and passion for growth, delivery, sales, sell-through, margin, and customer satisfaction.
Interpersonal and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute the retail strategy to drive sales and profit, ensuring contribution and productivity targets are met.
Source, evaluate, and secure new locations; lead negotiations with landlords, developers, and agents on heads of terms, lease structures, incentives, and commercial clauses to achieve target returns on capital.
Own the end-to-end opening process for permanent and pop-up stores, from letter of intent to handover, covering legal, design, planning, construction, information technology, visual merchandising and branding, operations, and post-opening review.
Define, document, and continuously improve store development processes, governance, and key performance indicators for budget, timeline, net promoter score, and sales ramp-up to support repeatable execution across markets.
Monitor and analyze retail performance, trends, and forecasts; manage controllable costs and operational standards to improve growth and profitability.
Own retail profit and loss and deliver commercial growth targets for sales, profit, and margin; monitor and control the budget through budgeting and forecasting.
Establish relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including the executive team and cross-functional partners, to ensure effective retail operations.
Be accountable for the retail team and store performance through commercial excellence and leadership.
Oversee in-store product range launches and the delivery of new merchandising and point-of-sale units.
Monitor trade and competitor product ranges and develop solutions to address market trends.
Drive succession plans for retail teams and develop approaches to attract, develop, and progress talent.
Develop and embed a learning and development strategy aligned with the retail strategy and talent development pathways.
Build an engaged retail culture, promote Best Companies, establish feedback loops for teams, and respond to post-box queries in a timely manner.
Maintain awareness of fashion trends across the retail industry and anticipate consumer initiatives and launches.

Director of Retail

Jaded London · New York, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-02-11

Salary: USD 120,000–150,000

Workplace: on_site

Description

Director of Retail

Reports To: Founders/ CFO

Department: Retail

Location: NYC with travel within US

Direct Reports: Store Managers – LA/NYC/Miami plus other cities as we expand.

Salary Range: The applicable salary range for this position, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, and experience is $120k - $150k annually. This range represents a good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting

Key Responsibilities:

Develop and execute the retail strategy, driving sales and profit. Ensure that contribution and productivity targets are met.
Source, evaluate, and secure new locations, leading all negotiations with landlords, developers, and agents on heads of terms, lease structures, incentives, and key commercial clauses to achieve target returns on capital.
Own the end‑to‑end store opening process for each site (permanent and pop‑up), from LOI to handover: legal, design, planning, construction, IT, VM/branding, operations, and post‑opening review.
Define, document, and continuously improve standard store development processes, governance, and KPIs (budget, timeline, NPS, sales ramp‑up), ensuring repeatable, scalable execution across markets.
Maximise and promote opportunities, growth and profitability through monitoring and analysing retail performance, trends and forecasts, managing controllable costs and operational standards
Accountable for the profit and loss of retail and to consistently manage and deliver on commercial growth targets (sales, profit and margin) closely monitoring and controlling the budget with expert budgeting/forecasting on all elements
Establish strong relationships with key stakeholders internally/externally, including the executive team and cross-functionally to ensure the effective and smooth running of retail
Directly accountable for the retail team and store performance through commercial excellence and inspirational leadership
Oversee instore product range launches along with delivery of new merchandising and POS units
Monitor trade and competitor product ranges and develop solutions to address market trends
Drive succession plans for the retail teams, strategising how we attract, develop and progress exceptional talent throughout the business.
Drive and embed a L&D strategy that supports the overall short and long-term retail strategy, driving development pathways for talent throughout the business
Develop a strong engagement culture in retail, promoting and being an advocate for ‘Best Companies’, driving highly engaged teams and ensuring feedback loops are in place for teams to voice suggestions and opinions responding to ‘Post box’ queries in a timely manner.
Maintain awareness of fashion trends across all retail industry, be ahead of forthcoming consumer initiatives and launches

Requirements

Person Specification

An experienced Director of Retail, with extensive retail experience within the US.
Experience trading a US fast pace retail store, trading stock.
Strong leadership skills with a high level of drive and passion to succeed and develop the brand
Creative and inspirational individual, with the ability to develop innovative and commercially successful retail opportunities.
In-depth knowledge of how to drive and build a retail brand with an understanding of all aspects of store operations, retail standards, visual merchandising, and marketing execution etc.
In-depth general business awareness and a natural instinct for profit/trading opportunities.
A proven ability to set goals and establish performance standards, in addition to managing short, medium and long-term objectives.
Effectively interface with different functions at different levels, and will relish the opportunity to motivate senior managers and store teams to deliver over and above expectations
Energetic, results driven with a desire to create growth and a passion for delivery, sales, sell through, margin and customer pleasure.
Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills

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About the Company

Jaded London

Streetwear and fashion retail

Jaded London is a British fashion and streetwear brand. It designs and sells menswear, womenswear, denim, knitwear, outerwear, and accessories through digital and wholesale channels. The brand serves fashion consumers and retail partners looking for trend-led clothing and seasonal collections. Its model connects creative direction and garment design with sourcing, merchandising, ecommerce, content, marketing, production, fulfillment, and customer care. Work spans fashion design, product development, buying, merchandising, ecommerce, creative, marketing, operations, and logistics.

Company size: Not listed
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Elstree and Borehamwood, United Kingdom
Founded: 2013

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