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Position: Bookseller
Status: Part-Time
Number of hours per week: 15­–23
Pay: $20/hour
Deadline to apply: July 21

Lofty Pigeon Books is hiring a part-time bookseller to assist with the daily operations of the store, especially helping customers and maintaining the sales floor. They will be a key part of how our customers interact with the store, ensuring a welcoming and inclusive environment and sharing their love for books.

Note

  • Involves working one weekend day per week, as scheduled

  • Involves working some evenings for events (onsite and offsite), as scheduled

  • Permanent (non-seasonal) position

Responsibilities

Daily

  • Assist customers of all ages with navigating the store, recommend books, take special orders, and ring out purchases

  • Maintain the sales floor, bathroom, and office, including tidying and organizing books and merchandise and undertaking basic cleaning

  • Shelve books and merchandise from shipments and overstock

  • Fulfill online orders and prepare orders for shipment

  • Break down boxes and prepare and take out trash and recycling

  • Other duties as assigned

Occasional

  • Write shelf talker blurbs, help conceptualize and execute themed displays and lists in-store and online, and contribute content to social media posts

  • Assist in producing store events, including promotion, setting up, ringing out customers and/or tending bar, and breaking down

Qualifications

  • Organized and detail oriented

  • Passionate about books and helping people connect with them

  • Customer service experience a plus

  • Spanish or Bengali language knowledge a plus

  • Ability to lift up to 35 pounds and use a stepladder a plus

  • Bookselling experience not required

About the organization

Lofty Pigeon Books is an independent neighborhood bookstore that opened on August 26, 2023, in Kensington, Brooklyn. We are a community-focused gathering space with a curated, dynamic selection of books of all genres and for all ages. An online store and robust events program for kids and adults round out our offerings.

Benefits

Paid sick and vacation leave; optional retirement plan with up to 3% employer match

To apply

Please send your resume, a brief note about your interest in the position, and your availability to jobs@loftypigeonbooks.com.

Please apply by Monday, July 21.