Rizzoli Bookstore

Bookseller & Events Manager Assistant

Rizzoli Bookstore is seeking a passionate and detail-oriented individual to join our team as a Bookseller & Events Manager Assistant. This role combines bookselling with event coordination, offering a dynamic opportunity to engage with literature, culture, and the community through our vibrant in-store events program.

Responsibilities:

Bookselling Duties:

• Provide excellent customer service, assisting customers with book recommendations and inquiries.
• Handle sales transactions and operate the register.
• Process online orders.
• Maintain store organization, restock shelves, and assist with merchandising.
• Support inventory management, including receiving and shelving books.

Events Coordination Support:

• Assist the Events Manager in organizing and executing Rizzoli Bookstore’s literary and cultural events.
• Create event pages, write promotional copy, and update local event listings.
• Occasionally supervise and host events (approximately once a week during the spring and fall), managing setup, breakdown, and coordinating book sales with booksellers.
• Field event requests, ensuring they align with the bookstore’s mission and programming vision.
• Track event inventory and coordinate deliveries.

Qualifications:

• Must have a passion for how book events contribute to building community.
• Prior bookselling, event coordination, or retail experience preferred.
• Strong organizational and communication skills, with an ability to multitask.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with frequent in-person customer interactions.
• Passion for books, literature, and cultural programming.
• Ability to lift boxes, shelve books, and stand for extended periods.
• Evening and weekend availability required.

Work Environment & Physical Requirements

This position involves manual labor, including shelving books, lifting boxes, and standing for extended periods.

If you’re a book lover with a knack for digital marketing and a passion for customer service, we’d love to hear from you!

This is a full-time, 40-hour per week position, reporting to the Events Manager. Benefits include health insurance, paid vacation and sick time, and company holidays. Pay: $18.00 per hour.

To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to bookstorehiring@rizzoliusa.com.

For over sixty years--twenty-nine in its previous 57th Street location--Rizzoli Bookstore has been widely considered one of the foremost independent booksellers in America specializing in illustrated books on architecture, interior design, fashion, photography, cookery, and the fine and applied arts, as well as literature, and foreign language books. Rizzoli Bookstore has been, and will continue to be a literary landmark in New York City, and a celebrated destination for important authors and book lovers from all over the world.

Our collection of books is specialized in illustrated subjects--fashion, interior design, art, architecture, photography, design--and literature, in Italian, Spanish, French, and English. But all subjects of general interest are represented and we carry a selection of European magazines and newspapers. We also carry a fine selection of note cards and stationery that is a constant delight to our customers.