Retail Executive Roles — Specialty, Mass-Market, Ecommerce, Omnichannel
More than 291 executive roles classified in Retail, with 21 new this week. Chief Merchandising Officers, CMOs, COOs, and store-operations leadership at specialty, mass-market, and omnichannel retailers.
Tier breakdown
3
Founder6
C-Suite106
VP12
Sr Director164
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 291 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 291)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Director Of Engineering - Platform Services, Developer Platform Nordstrom A Director within the Nordstrom Technology organization helps create an inspiring workplace where talented people are empowered to drive customer experiences and business results. This role leads teams responsible for the Kubernetes Platform, Airflow, Kafka, Temporal, and the Machine Learning Platform. Director | Seattle, WA Hybrid |
| Boutique Director - Somerset CHANEL The Boutique Director at CHANEL will lead and develop a team, manage operations, and enhance client experiences in Troy, MI. The role requires leadership experience and a passion for luxury retail. Director | Troy, MI Onsite |
| Head of Ecommerce & Digital Marketing ... leading international Luxury Retailer Lead ecommerce growth and digital marketing strategies for a luxury multi-brand retailer in APAC. VP | Hong Kong Unknown |
| Vice President, Finance ... Confidential Company Lead the organization’s Finance and People & Culture functions, providing financial insight and supporting operational improvements. VP | Metro Vancouver, BC, CA Onsite |
| Vice President, Policy & Strategic Communications Retail Council of Canada Lead RCC's government relations function and shape a compelling, multi-year narrative and advocacy campaign. VP | Toronto, ON, CA Hybrid |
| Industry CTO - Retail & Consumer Goods Salesforce The Salesforce Industry CTO will shape Salesforce’s industry technology vision across ASEAN, help customers translate business ambition into measurable outcomes, and develop trusted C-level relationships. C-Suite | Thailand - Bangkok Hybrid |
| Vice President, Retail Media Monetization, Americas Criteo The VP, Retail Media Monetization, Americas will lead the retailer-facing monetization organization across the region, building partnerships and accelerating growth for Criteo and its retail partners. VP | New York, Boston Onsite |
| Global After-Sales Director Jacques Marie Mage Jacques Marie Mage is seeking a Global After-Sales Director to develop and lead global product care, repair, warranty, and after-sales service. The role involves working closely with various teams and partners to ensure high-quality service. Director | Los Angeles, CA Onsite |
| Chief Executive Officer (e-commerce) ... Lider w swoim sektorze e-commerce Prepare the company for sale, maximize revenue and cost optimization, develop long-term growth strategy, scale business in Poland and abroad, build corporate governance, leverage technology and AI for growth. C-Suite | Kraków, Lesser Poland Onsite |
| Senior Director, Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Nordstrom The Senior Director of GRC at Nordstrom is responsible for building and maturing a modern, enterprise-wide GRC function, ensuring governance, risk, and compliance are strategic enablers of secure growth, digital transformation, and operational excellence. Sr Director | Seattle, WA Onsite |
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.
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