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BoxLunch & Hot Topic

Store Manager

Merced, CA$23 – $30/hrPosted 1761 days ago

Immigration summary

Visa sponsorship

PossibleMedium confidence

There is real but limited sponsorship history here.

8 recent H-1B filings

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Green card sponsorship

Limited historyLow confidence

There is real but limited green card sponsorship history here.

1 recent certified PERM filing

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Job description

At Hot Topic, we’re passionate about a few things: music, pop culture, and creating the most amazing in-store experience for our customers and employees.   We’re on the search for a Store Manager that will be at the forefront of bringing the fandom to life. You’ll lead the store in achieving store objectives with regard to hitting sales targets, recruiting, development, and performance management. You’ll be a retail maverick that can handle anything that comes your way. You’ll be a believer in developing talent and providing the best customer service in the mall. In short, you’re a superhero.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • of is
  • Recruit, develop, and retain a super collaborative and passionate team to run your store alongside you
  • You’re the leader of the band, and you love to create buzz and customer engagement through staying connected on social media, store web applications, and clienteling
  • Lead an operationally sound business; you’ll bring the right balance of organizational structure, delegation & autonomy, and customer first selling practices
  • Keep watch (like the Night’s Watch) on shrink/loss prevention, payroll hours, schedules, and external factors that will affect business  
  • Collaboratively communicate with retail leadership and HQ partners on trends & customer feedback
  • Run sales reports and use data to help guide your strategy to hit sales targets
  • You’ve got the keys to the kingdom, and you’re not afraid to use them!  You’re willing to adapt to new technologies, communicate company policies & procedures, and control supply ownership (spending only as needed)
  • Deliver the goods - you’ll merchandise the store in a compelling way, leveraging planograms as a guide, while launching all promos on time
  • Every Fellowship needs a Gandalf!  Ensure that you’re continually building a bench of equally talented, passionate staff through mentorship, recognition, and feedback

    • WHAT YOU'LL NEED

  • At least 1-2 years of retail store management experience; you’ve led teams to success and want to experience more of it. You’ll have skills to pay the bills: communication, recruiting, and operations (payroll, reporting, scheduling, merchandising)
  • A high school diploma or GED equivalent. If you have a degree, even better
  • Roll with the punches! Retail is a fast-changing industry and you like catching curveballs thrown your way
  • Open-minded and inquisitive regarding pop culture fandoms & music trends
  • The usual retail stuff (with or without reasonable accommodation): able to navigate your way around the store, merchandise product utilizing approved store equipment, and pack and unpack boxes of awesome merch that may weigh up to 50 pounds  

    • Sponsorship evidence

    Why Openbound reached the conclusions above.

    Visa sponsorship evidence

    Current posting

    Silent on sponsorship

    Employer H-1B history

    8
    recent certified H-1B filings
    3
    new-hire petitions
    0
    filings for similar roles
    9
    so far in FY2026
    More evidence details
    • 8 recent certified H-1B filings across the employer
    • Still filing this year — 9 filings in FY2026
    • Some filing activity in CA
    • 20 USCIS H-1B approvals for extensions or transfers, with no new-employment petitions on record
    • We checked 20 filing titles for this employer and none describe work like this role
    • The posting says nothing about sponsorship either way

    Some filing activity in CA.

    Green card sponsorship evidence

    Employer PERM history

    1
    recent certified PERM filings
    0
    filings for similar roles
    1
    filings in this location
    Certified PERM filings by fiscal year
    20230
    20242
    20251
    20265YTD

    Filing history reflects past employer behavior; it isn't a promise for this opening.

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    How Openbound evaluates sponsorship

    Visa history uses official U.S. Department of Labor H-1B LCA disclosure data and USCIS H-1B petition history. Green card history uses DOL PERM disclosure data. Each is read for the employer as a whole, for roles like this one, and for this location, weighted toward the most recent fiscal years.

    An employer is matched to its filing entities by verified legal name and reviewed aliases; a match is never made on a name resemblance alone. Where no verified entity can be matched, the page says so and draws no conclusion from the absence. 20 filing titles were examined for this employer.

    What this posting states outranks history in both directions, and an employer's published policy outranks past filings. Filing history reflects past behavior; it is not a promise of sponsorship for this opening, and none of this is legal advice.