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Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.
ALL ABOUT TARGET
Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.
ALL ABOUT SMALL FORMATS
We enable a consistent experience for our guests by ensuring product is in stock, available and accurately priced and signed on the sales floor in our smallest format stores. Experts of operations, process and efficiency, this team is responsible for being proficient in all areas of the store to complete duties such as, but not limited to, cashiering, stocking, presentation and price accuracy. You’ll provide exceptional guest service, customizing each experience and anticipating guest needs.
At Target, we believe in our leaders having meaningful experiences that help them build and develop skills for a career. The role of a Small Format Team Leader can provide you with the skills and experience of:
- Guest service fundamentals and experience building a guest-first culture across the store
- Retail business fundamentals, including department sales trends, inventory management, guest shopping patterns, pricing and promotions strategies
- Planning department(s) daily/weekly workload to support business priorities and deliver sales goals
- Process improvements and workload efficiency
- Leading a team of hourly team members, including skills in interviewing, developing, coaching, evaluating and retaining talent
As a Small Format Team Leader, no two days are ever the same, but a typical day will most likely include the following responsibilities:
- Consistently deliver guest experience commitments to create an Easy, Inspiring and Friendly guest experience.
- Ensures every team member understands, is trained, and consistently delivers on Target’s guest experience commitments and consistent operations.
- Actively observes and provides feedback, holding team members accountable while recognizing great guest experience moments.
- Reviews area guest, financial, and team outcome metrics to identify opportunities, takes action to improve, and aligns team on the right behaviors and execution, celebrates wins, drives results that deliver outcomes and elevates the guest experience.
- Understand sales goals, plan daily/weekly workload with guidance from direct leader, and execute the same to deliver on department and store sales goals and guest engagement, including planning merchandising, pricing workload, making changes to salesfloor merchandise displays, sales plans and promotions.
- Demonstrate a service culture that prioritizes the guest service experience. Model, train and coach team members on expectations to deliver the service standard.
- Enable a consistent experience for our guests by ensuring product is in stock, available, accurately priced and signed on the sales floor.
- Be an expert of operations, accuracy, process and efficiency
- With guidance from your direct leader, manage incoming and outgoing products, maintain stock levels, ensuring inventory accuracy, and executing product arrangement, pricing and promotional signing processes for your assigned department(s).
- Assign daily tasks to TMs based on planned workload and guest traffic patterns, ensuring alignment with weekly and monthly priorities set by your direct leader.
- With guidance from your leader, help lead team members in your department(s) in the backroom and sales floor areas, review all reporting to identify gaps and develop a plan to resolve in accordance to your leader’s direction.
- Enable efficient delivery to our guests by leading pick, pack and ship fulfillment work, as applicable for your location.
- Evaluate candidates for open positions and develop a guest-centric team
- Participate in team onboarding and learning.
- With guidance from your direct leader, close knowledge and skill gaps through training and experiences.
- With guidance from your direct leader, establish clear goals and expectations and hold team members accountable to expectations.
- Demonstrate inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches, being authentic and respectful, and creating equitable experiences.
- Always demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety and compliance; lead and hold the team accountable to work in the same way.
- Lead and demonstrate a safety culture through modeling and recognizing safe behaviors, identifying and correcting hazards, holding team accountable to following safety expectations, assisting with incident response, and reporting/investigating injuries timely and accurately.
- Model the execution of physical security processes in order to enhance the instore security culture.
- Support merchandise protection strategies across the total store, including ordering, storage and application as directed by best practices.
- Lead and demonstrate a culture of executing all best practices as outlined with team onboarding and learning; help close skill gaps through development, coaching and team interactions.
- As a key carrier, follow all safe and secure training and processes.
- Regularly assume store-level leadership on duty (LOD) responsibilities to enable the guest experience for the store during assigned shifts
- Address all store emergency and compliance needs.
- Support guest services such as back-up cashier, order pick up (OPU) and Drive up (DU) and maintain a compliance culture while executing those duties, such as compliance with federal, state, and local adult beverage laws.
- All other duties based on business needs.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
This may be the right job for you if:
- You enjoy interacting and helping others - including guests that shop our store and fellow team members you work with.
- You thrive in a fast-moving, highly active and physically demanding role, where teamwork, flexibility, and creative problem solving are key to success.
- You are open to working a variable work schedule with varying hours, days or shifts (including nights, weekends, holidays, closing shifts and other peak shopping times).
The good news is that we have some amazing training that will help teach you everything you need to know to be a Small Format Team Leader. But, there are a few skills you should have from the get-go:
- Must be at least 18 years of age or older
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Previous retail experience preferred, but not required
- Lead and hold others accountable
- Learn and adapt to current technology needs
- Work independently and as part of a team
- Manage workload and prioritize tasks independently
- Welcoming and helpful attitude towards all guests and other team members
- Effective communication skills
- Capability to remain focused and composed in a fast-paced environment and accomplish multiple tasks within established timeframes
- Ability to communicate on multiple frequency devices and operate handheld scanners, and other technology equipment as directed
We are an awesome place to work and care about our teams, so we want to make sure we are clear on a few more basics that we expect:
- Access all areas of the building to respond to guest or team member issues
- Interpret instructions, reports and information
- Accurately handle cash register operations as needed
- Climb up and down ladders
- Scan, handle and move merchandise efficiently and safely, including frequently lifting or moving merchandise up to 15 pounds and occasionally lifting or moving merchandise and fixtures up to 44 pounds without additional assistance from others
- Flexible work schedule (e.g., nights, weekends and holidays); reliable and prompt attendance necessary
- Although the role is full-time, it does not come with a guarantee of 40 hours each week. Hours will depend on the needs of the business and may fluctuate as required
- Capable of working in and exposure to varying temperatures, humidity, and other elements while performing certain job duties including but not limited to Drive-Up, carryout, etc.
- Ability to remain mobile for the duration of a scheduled shift (shift length may vary)
Benefits Eligibility
Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_C | Pegue esta URL en su navegador preferido para obtener información sobre la elegibilidad de este puesto para recibir beneficios: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_CAmericans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.
Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.
ALL ABOUT TARGET
Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.
ALL ABOUT SMALL FORMATS
We enable a consistent experience for our guests by ensuring product is in stock, available and accurately priced and signed on the sales floor in our smallest format stores. Experts of operations, process and efficiency, this team is responsible for being proficient in all areas of the store to complete duties such as, but not limited to, cashiering, stocking, presentation and price accuracy. You’ll provide exceptional guest service, customizing each experience and anticipating guest needs.
At Target, we believe in our leaders having meaningful experiences that help them build and develop skills for a career. The role of a Small Format Team Leader can provide you with the skills and experience of:
- Guest service fundamentals and experience building a guest-first culture across the store
- Retail business fundamentals, including department sales trends, inventory management, guest shopping patterns, pricing and promotions strategies
- Planning department(s) daily/weekly workload to support business priorities and deliver sales goals
- Process improvements and workload efficiency
- Leading a team of hourly team members, including skills in interviewing, developing, coaching, evaluating and retaining talent
As a Small Format Team Leader, no two days are ever the same, but a typical day will most likely include the following responsibilities:
- Consistently deliver guest experience commitments to create an Easy, Inspiring and Friendly guest experience.
- Ensures every team member understands, is trained, and consistently delivers on Target’s guest experience commitments and consistent operations.
- Actively observes and provides feedback, holding team members accountable while recognizing great guest experience moments.
- Reviews area guest, financial, and team outcome metrics to identify opportunities, takes action to improve, and aligns team on the right behaviors and execution, celebrates wins, drives results that deliver outcomes and elevates the guest experience.
- Understand sales goals, plan daily/weekly workload with guidance from direct leader, and execute the same to deliver on department and store sales goals and guest engagement, including planning merchandising, pricing workload, making changes to salesfloor merchandise displays, sales plans and promotions.
- Demonstrate a service culture that prioritizes the guest service experience. Model, train and coach team members on expectations to deliver the service standard.
- Enable a consistent experience for our guests by ensuring product is in stock, available, accurately priced and signed on the sales floor.
- Be an expert of operations, accuracy, process and efficiency
- With guidance from your direct leader, manage incoming and outgoing products, maintain stock levels, ensuring inventory accuracy, and executing product arrangement, pricing and promotional signing processes for your assigned department(s).
- Assign daily tasks to TMs based on planned workload and guest traffic patterns, ensuring alignment with weekly and monthly priorities set by your direct leader.
- With guidance from your leader, help lead team members in your department(s) in the backroom and sales floor areas, review all reporting to identify gaps and develop a plan to resolve in accordance to your leader’s direction.
- Enable efficient delivery to our guests by leading pick, pack and ship fulfillment work, as applicable for your location.
- Evaluate candidates for open positions and develop a guest-centric team
- Participate in team onboarding and learning.
- With guidance from your direct leader, close knowledge and skill gaps through training and experiences.
- With guidance from your direct leader, establish clear goals and expectations and hold team members accountable to expectations.
- Demonstrate inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches, being authentic and respectful, and creating equitable experiences.
- Always demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety and compliance; lead and hold the team accountable to work in the same way.
- Lead and demonstrate a safety culture through modeling and recognizing safe behaviors, identifying and correcting hazards, holding team accountable to following safety expectations, assisting with incident response, and reporting/investigating injuries timely and accurately.
- Model the execution of physical security processes in order to enhance the instore security culture.
- Support merchandise protection strategies across the total store, including ordering, storage and application as directed by best practices.
- Lead and demonstrate a culture of executing all best practices as outlined with team onboarding and learning; help close skill gaps through development, coaching and team interactions.
- As a key carrier, follow all safe and secure training and processes.
- Regularly assume store-level leadership on duty (LOD) responsibilities to enable the guest experience for the store during assigned shifts
- Address all store emergency and compliance needs.
- Support guest services such as back-up cashier, order pick up (OPU) and Drive up (DU) and maintain a compliance culture while executing those duties, such as compliance with federal, state, and local adult beverage laws.
- All other duties based on business needs.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
This may be the right job for you if:
- You enjoy interacting and helping others - including guests that shop our store and fellow team members you work with.
- You thrive in a fast-moving, highly active and physically demanding role, where teamwork, flexibility, and creative problem solving are key to success.
- You are open to working a variable work schedule with varying hours, days or shifts (including nights, weekends, holidays, closing shifts and other peak shopping times).
The good news is that we have some amazing training that will help teach you everything you need to know to be a Small Format Team Leader. But, there are a few skills you should have from the get-go:
- Must be at least 18 years of age or older
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Previous retail experience preferred, but not required
- Lead and hold others accountable
- Learn and adapt to current technology needs
- Work independently and as part of a team
- Manage workload and prioritize tasks independently
- Welcoming and helpful attitude towards all guests and other team members
- Effective communication skills
- Capability to remain focused and composed in a fast-paced environment and accomplish multiple tasks within established timeframes
- Ability to communicate on multiple frequency devices and operate handheld scanners, and other technology equipment as directed
We are an awesome place to work and care about our teams, so we want to make sure we are clear on a few more basics that we expect:
- Access all areas of the building to respond to guest or team member issues
- Interpret instructions, reports and information
- Accurately handle cash register operations as needed
- Climb up and down ladders
- Scan, handle and move merchandise efficiently and safely, including frequently lifting or moving merchandise up to 15 pounds and occasionally lifting or moving merchandise and fixtures up to 44 pounds without additional assistance from others
- Flexible work schedule (e.g., nights, weekends and holidays); reliable and prompt attendance necessary
- Although the role is full-time, it does not come with a guarantee of 40 hours each week. Hours will depend on the needs of the business and may fluctuate as required
- Capable of working in and exposure to varying temperatures, humidity, and other elements while performing certain job duties including but not limited to Drive-Up, carryout, etc.
- Ability to remain mobile for the duration of a scheduled shift (shift length may vary)
Benefits Eligibility
Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_C | Pegue esta URL en su navegador preferido para obtener información sobre la elegibilidad de este puesto para recibir beneficios: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_CAmericans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.
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Who's Hiring
- Bob's Discount Furniture37
- lululemon24
- European Wax Center22
- Marriott International12
- Under Canvas10
Top Industries Hiring
- Retail
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in guest experience associate jobs.
- One or more years of customer-facing service experience in hospitality, retail, or a related field
- Strong verbal communication and active listening skills in high-volume guest environments
- Proficiency with property management systems or customer relationship management software
- Ability to resolve guest complaints calmly and independently without escalating every issue
- Flexible availability including evenings, weekends, and holidays based on operational demand
- High school diploma or equivalent required, with an associate or bachelor's degree preferred for senior roles
Tips for Your Guest Experience Associate Job Search
Tailor your resume to service metrics
Guest experience roles prioritize measurable outcomes over general duties. Rewrite your bullet points to highlight satisfaction scores, resolution rates, or repeat visit numbers you influenced. Hiring managers in this field scan for evidence that you move the needle on guest outcomes, not just that you showed up.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists guest experience associate openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Highlight cross-functional coordination experience
Guest experience associates routinely bridge housekeeping, food and beverage, and front-of-house teams. If your resume only lists guest-facing tasks, add one or two examples where you coordinated between departments to solve a service issue. That cross-functional visibility sets you apart from candidates with identical guest contact hours.
Prepare a service recovery story for interviews
Almost every guest experience interview includes a scenario question about a dissatisfied guest. Prepare a specific example where you de-escalated a complaint, what you did differently from standard protocol, and what the outcome was. Vague answers about staying calm rarely get you past the second round.
Filter openings by property type, not just location
The day-to-day reality of a guest experience associate at a luxury hotel differs sharply from the same title at a theme park or medical facility. Narrow your search by venue type so your cover letter and interview answers can speak directly to that environment's guest expectations and service standards.
Negotiate your schedule as part of the offer
Guest experience roles are often posted as open availability, but many properties have flexibility on shift preferences once an offer is on the table. Ask about rotating versus fixed schedules, holiday blackout periods, and whether seniority affects shift selection. Settling these details upfront prevents conflicts that cut short otherwise strong starts.
Guest Experience Associate Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most guest experience associates?
The most active employers for guest experience associates right now are Bob's Discount Furniture, lululemon, and European Wax Center, and the most openings are in Texas, New York, and California, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand tends to be highest at hotel brands, resort operators, and large healthcare systems with dedicated patient experience programs.
How many guest experience associate jobs are remote?
About 8% of guest experience associate openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the largely in-person nature of the role. The sub-areas most likely to offer remote or hybrid arrangements include digital guest communications, post-stay feedback coordination, and corporate guest relations roles that focus on program management rather than direct property interaction.
How do you become a guest experience associate?
Start by building direct customer service experience in any guest-facing role, such as front desk, concierge, or retail. Familiarize yourself with common property management systems used in your target industry. Develop a clear service recovery example you can walk through in interviews. Apply to entry-level openings at properties whose service model matches your background, and treat your first role as a foundation for learning brand-specific standards.
Can you get hired as a guest experience associate with no experience?
Yes, many employers hire candidates with no formal guest experience associate title on their resume if you can demonstrate relevant transferable skills. Roles in food service, event staffing, retail, or volunteer coordination all build the communication and problem-solving abilities hiring managers look for. Frame your past work around specific moments where you handled a difficult customer or improved someone's experience, and target properties known for training new hires from the ground up.
What does the guest experience associate interview process look like?
Most employers run a two to three stage process. The first stage is a phone or video screen focused on availability, background, and cultural fit. The second stage is an in-person or panel interview that includes behavioral questions about handling difficult guests and working under pressure. Some employers add a brief role-play scenario where you respond to a mock guest complaint. References are typically checked before a final offer is extended.
Where can I find and apply to guest experience associate jobs?
You can find and apply to guest experience associate jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your background and experience level, then apply directly to each listing. The openings update regularly, so checking back frequently gives you the best chance of catching newly posted positions before competition builds.
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