Community Manager, Southern California

The Retail Community Manager at Vuori is a people connector who actively collaborates with our retail stores, local studios, influencers and businesses to spread brand awareness and create extraordinary experiences. They will support current stores with local events, in-store activations, product seeding initiatives and will play an integral part of training teams on the community process. What you'll get to do: The Retail Community Manager will support both the Senior Manager of Community and Retail Marketing Manager in managing store community leads – reviewing and approving event proposals, supporting the team with resources and providing coaching.  Travel to stores when support or additional training is needed. Attending bigger scale events when additional support is needed on ground at the store level.  Implementing company culture/values/mission as a living breathing part of the entire team. Staff training and development. Grassroots sales and marketing strategy in the local communities. Connection to new store teams that build relationships. Ability to lead and manage community events. You will be responsible for the relationships, networks, and community in the surrounding communities with the intention of growing our brand. You seek and attend local experiences and events and are knowledgeable on the upcoming  fitness trends and instructors in your local community. You execute community initiatives (events & experiences). You support the retail stores and the marketing team by creating a community database of athletic influencers and identifying key relationships in the community. You connect with influencers and neighboring businesses to build brand awareness. You coordinate events that feature influencers, local athletic teams and pop-up shops. You are a great coach and support for our retail stores. Flexible availability is expected to meet the needs of community events in store and off site which may include some early starts and/or late finishes and weekends. You will be in close communication with the stores to ensure the teams are in the know of all upcoming experiences and anything needed for events including approval for budget. Ensure a positive experience in all interactions with potential candidates. You are a people connector who loves to build pipelines of talent by creating great relationships with store teams. Deliver a training program to Store Managers and Community Leads including brand, culture, operations and community. Organize and implement team building days that focus on company culture, buildingrelationships and teamwork.