Retail Executive Roles — Specialty, Mass-Market, Ecommerce, Omnichannel
More than 205 executive roles classified in Retail, with 30 new this week. Chief Merchandising Officers, CMOs, COOs, and store-operations leadership at specialty, mass-market, and omnichannel retailers.
Tier breakdown
4
Founder16
C-Suite83
VP8
Sr Director94
DirectorWhat this category covers
Retail covers executive roles at specialty retailers, mass-market chains, ecommerce-native brands, and omnichannel operators. Merchandising, store operations, ecommerce, and brand leadership are the core verticals.
Ecommerce-only DTC brands at scale are included when the company has crossed into retail-style operations (warehousing, returns, multi-channel).
Across the 205 active roles in this category, the largest tier is Director. The classifier weighs company size, scope, and reporting line — not just the title prefix — so the tier mix reflects real responsibility, not vanity titles.
Sample Jobs (10 of 205)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Chief of Staff, Online Grocery Instacart The Chief of Staff, Online Grocery will partner with the General Manager and lead strategic and operational initiatives to improve team dynamics and business strategies. C-Suite | Remote Remote |
| Interim CEO/CRO ... leading private equity fund A leading private equity fund is seeking an experienced Interim CEO/CRO to lead the transformation of an established international premium consumer brand. Founder | Paris Unknown |
| Director of White Glove Logistics & Transportation Quince Responsible for designing and scaling logistics networks, managing transportation strategies, and overseeing vendor sourcing for Quince's White Glove business. Director | United States Unknown |
| Director of Quality Control, Hardlines Quince The role involves ensuring product quality, developing testing protocols, and leading a team of quality assurance professionals. It requires experience in quality management within manufacturing and processing engineering. Director | Shenzhen Onsite |
| Enterprise Sales Director, Retail Sierra The role involves prospecting, lead generation, managing relationships, negotiating deals, and developing sales strategies. It requires 6-8 years of experience in enterprise sales and familiarity with AI. Director | Canada Remote |
| VP of Finance - Omnichannel Retail Vaco The Vice President of Finance is responsible for leading financial planning, analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and performance management across a rapidly growing omnichannel retail organization. VP | Coppell, TX, US Onsite |
| Director of Product, Search Quince Responsible for transforming onsite search into an intelligent, personalized discovery engine. Focus on data platforms, experimentation, and AI-powered experiences. Director | Palo Alto, CA Unknown |
| Director of Retail Marketing Beam Beam is seeking a Director of Retail Marketing to build and scale their omnichannel marketing function, focusing on retail presence and performance. Director | New York City, NY Hybrid |
| Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) ... global quick-service restaurant network Lead enterprise cyber security strategy to protect digital revenue streams, customer data, and operational continuity. Define a security roadmap aligned to digital growth, franchise operations, and supply chain dependencies. C-Suite | Milton Keynes, United Kingdom Hybrid |
| Chief People Officer ... Page Executive The role involves strategic leadership on talent, culture, organisational effectiveness, and workforce transformation across multiple regions. It requires a balance of commercial acumen, strategic vision, and people leadership. C-Suite | Hong Kong Unknown |
How classification gets to this category
Retail classification follows the same multi-stage pipeline as every other category, with category-specific signal at three stages:
- Title recognition. Direct title hits resolve fast — common variants are recognized immediately, including the senior, VP, and Director-tier flavors.
- Compensation threshold. An exec-tier base-comp floor filters out individual-contributor roles that share the title language. Roles below the floor in unambiguous category titles are flagged for manual review rather than auto-classified.
- JD signals for ambiguous cases. GPT reads the JD for merchandising authority, store-network scope, and channel mix (physical vs. ecommerce). The classifier separates retail leadership from CPG-side equivalents. See the AI Classification page for the full signal hierarchy.
Negative filters explicitly block adjacent IC and analyst roles whose titles can resemble executive ones. The result: Retail as a category in your inbox is the executive cut, not the entry-level cut.
How matching works for your search
Matching on Retail is conjunctive. Every dimension you add narrows the result set rather than expanding it.
Example: select Retail + Chief Merchandising-equivalent VP-tier and you see merchandising leaders across specialty and mass retail — your inbox shows the intersection, not the union. You won't see roles that match only one of the filters and not the other.
Tier filtering layers on top. If you only want VP-tier and above in this category, the seniority-tier filter does that cleanly. Restrict further to C-suite only to see the most senior seats, or open it up to Director-tier to widen the funnel during early-stage exploration.
Remote mix