Retail Sales Lead at Squishable

Compensation

$16/hr

Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Type: Full-time
Level: Lead
Posted: Jan 12, 2026

Description

Squishable is seeking a passionate and driven Retail Sales Lead to join their team. This role involves understanding organizational objectives, enforcing sales strategies, managing productivity, acting as a brand ambassador, resolving customer issues, developing product knowledge, supervising the team, and providing feedback. The ideal candidate will be a natural leader with exceptional organizational and communication skills, a passion for people, high emotional intelligence, and a team-player attitude. They must be able to work a flexible schedule, including mornings, nights, weekends, and holidays. The position offers a fun workplace, career growth opportunities, employee discounts, dental/vision insurance, and 401(k) matching.

Required Skills

Sales
Leadership
Customer Service
Communication
Teamwork
Organizational Skills

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: Two plus years of relevant supervisor experience in a high-volume, fast-paced, challenging, and creative customer-facing environment.
Preferred Qualifications: Passion for people! A dynamic and engaged leader with a passion for empowering, inspiring, motivating, teaching & developing team members.
Exceptional organizational and communication skills with the ability to effectively balance priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced, ever-changing, and highly entrepreneurial environment.
Ability to receive and provide constructive feedback and recognition to every team member, to ensure an open and transparent culture of high-performance standards.
High emotional intelligence with the ability to work with and manage diverse teams by being highly empathetic, intuitive, self-motivated, and driven.
Has to be a team player who fosters a collaborative and engaged teamwork environment.
Willing to work a flexible schedule including early mornings, nights, overnights, weekends, and holidays as needed.
Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software.
Ability to transport stock as may be required; lifting cartons up to 25 lb.

About Squishable

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