Retail Executive Roles — Specialty, Mass-Market, Ecommerce, Omnichannel
More than 263 executive roles classified in Retail, with 17 new this week. Chief Merchandising Officers, CMOs, COOs, and store-operations leadership at specialty, mass-market, and omnichannel retailers.
Tier breakdown
6
Founder17
C-Suite111
VP13
Sr Director116
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 263 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 263)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Dirección General - Sector Moda y Complementos ... Compañía española de carácter familiar del sector moda y complementos Executive leadership of a family-owned fashion and accessories company, responsible for strategic planning, team coordination, and business development. C-Suite | Madrid, Spain Unknown |
| Director Of Stores Krewe Lead KREWE’s retail footprint, driving sales and operational excellence across 20+ locations. Requires strategic planning, people leadership, and P&L accountability. Director | New Orleans, LA Onsite |
| Director, Product Partnerships Instacart The Director, Product Partnerships will lead Instacart's product and technology partnerships strategy across logistics, retail technology, and enterprise. The role involves building and managing high-performing partnerships teams and influencing buy-partner-tradeoffs with senior leadership. VP | Remote Remote |
| Director, Product Partnerships Instacart Lead product and technology partnerships across logistics, retail technology, and enterprise products. Influence buy-partner relationships and lead a team. Director | Remote Remote |
| Sr. Director of Supply Chain and Production The Black Tux The Sr. Director of Supply Chain and Production will support The Black Tux’s end-to-end supply chain from supplier sourcing and vendor management to inbound logistics and inventory management. Sr Director | New York, NY Hybrid |
| Director of Contact Centre & Customer Experience ... Forsyth Barnes The Director will lead a high-volume contact centre operation, focusing on customer experience, service quality, and operational improvement. Responsibilities include strategic direction, managing a remote workforce, and implementing technology solutions. Director | Omaha, Nebraska, United States Hybrid |
| Chief Commercial Officer ... family-owned supermarket brand The Chief Commercial Officer will lead the commercial engine of a growing supermarket brand, focusing on Marketing, Sales & Growth, and E-Commerce to drive revenue growth. C-Suite | Massachusetts Onsite |
| Head of Trade Marketing - FMCG (F&B) ... leading consumer goods company in Thailand Develop and lead the overall Trade Marketing strategy across key channels, aligned with the company's commercial and brand objectives. Lead the development of annual trade plans, promotional strategies, channel initiatives, and customer activation programs. VP | Bangkok, Bangkok Province Unknown |
| Vice President of Finance, De-Facto CFO Finatal The role involves serving as the senior-most finance leader, reporting to the CEO, and handling responsibilities across finance, accounting, treasury, tax, risk management, legal, and HR. It requires building the FP&A function and supporting growth and value creation. VP | Ohio Unknown |
| Director, Master Data Architect Vuori Inc. Lead master data strategy, collaborate with teams, improve data quality, automate processes, and enable decision-making. Director | Carlsbad, CA 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.
Remote mix