Sales Associate (Part-Time) — Bricks & Minifigs Loudoun (Leesburg, VA)
Overview
Bricks & Minifigs Loudoun buys, sells, and trades new and used LEGO® sets, bulk brick, and minifigures. We are opening this fall at 210-B Fort Evans Road NE in Leesburg, and we are building our opening crew now.
This is a part-time hourly role supporting the Store Manager. You may start before we open, which means your first weeks are receiving, sorting, cleaning, and pricing inventory in a store with no customers in it yet. Once we open, you're on the floor and behind the counter. We are building a small crew and expect people to gravitate toward what they are best at.
What you'll do
Figure out what things are. A lot of what comes through our door arrives loose, unlabeled, and mixed together. You'll work from part combinations, colors, printed pieces, and reference tools to identify sets, years, and versions, then sort, clean, and price what comes in. This is a real skill and it's most of the work behind the counter.
Build and certify. Assemble incoming used sets to confirm they're complete, hunt down missing pieces, and package and label them to our standard so a customer knows exactly what they're getting.
List and ship. Photograph inventory, write accurate listings, and manage our online sales channels. Pack and ship orders, keep listings current, and handle buyer questions. Accuracy matters here. Online buyers judge condition entirely from what you tell them and show them.
Host the room. Run birthday parties and in-store build events. Set up, manage a group of eight to twelve kids, keep it fun and on schedule, and reset for the next one. You'll also help with community events and capture photos and short video of new arrivals, finished builds, and store activity for our social channels.
Take care of customers. Greet people, find out what they're after, and help them find it. That might be a parent with a $30 budget and a birthday on Saturday, a kid spending their own money for the first time, or a collector who wants to know whether the minifigure in the case is the original print or the reissue. Run the register accurately, handle cash, cards, and store credit, process trades and returns, and stay patient when the line backs up or someone is unhappy with a price. You'll also answer phone calls, emails, and social messages about inventory, buy appointments, and party bookings.
Keep the store running. Receive and process inventory, build and refresh displays, maintain the bulk brick area, keep the space clean and shoppable, and open and close.
Learn the buy side. You'll start by supporting buys and, depending on your experience and how quickly you pick it up, this can grow into evaluating and pricing customer collections yourself. That's a step up, not a day-one expectation. Buy counter transactions are limited to associates 18 and over.
What we're looking for
- Genuine interest in the LEGO product universe and a real willingness to learn it. You do not need to know set numbers or print variations. We provide the tools and the training. You do need to be the kind of person who finds it interesting to learn why one version of a minifigure is worth ten times another.
- Patience for detail work. Identifying an unlabeled set from a pile of loose parts, or hunting down one missing piece to complete a build, takes persistence. Some people find this satisfying and some find it maddening.
- Comfort talking to people. A lot of this job is conversation, with kids, with parents, and with adult collectors who know a great deal about what they're buying.
- Ability to explain and hold a price. Customers will disagree with what we're asking or what we offered, and you'll need to explain our reasoning without getting defensive and without giving the store away.
- Comfort with kids and groups, for party room hosting.
- Clear written communication. Online listings have to describe condition and completeness accurately, and buyer messages need timely, professional answers.
- Point of sale experience is a plus. We use Heartland and will train you, but if you've run a register before you'll be up to speed faster.
- Reliability, and awareness of what's happening on the floor. Small store, small crew. When you're scheduled, we need you here.
- Weekend and evening availability.
- Ability to lift and move boxes of inventory and be on your feet for most of a shift.
- Retail, food service, or customer-facing experience is helpful but not required. We will train the right person.
Schedule and pay
Part time, approximately 15 to 25 hours per week, with more hours available around opening and during the holiday season. Store hours once open are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Weekend availability is required.
Pay: $16.00 to $19.00 per hour, depending on experience.
Benefits
Employee discount.
Work location: in person, Leesburg, VA.
Must be at least 16 years old. Applicants 16 or 17 will work a modified schedule during the school year and will not handle buy counter transactions.
Pay: $45,000.00 - $50,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Employee discount
- Paid time off
Application Question(s):
- Are you able and willing to travel to Orem, Utah for approximately one week of paid training? Travel and lodging are covered. (Yes / No)
- In a few sentences, describe your relationship with LEGO® products. Collector, builder, parent, casual, none at all. There is no wrong answer and no prior experience is required.
- Someone brings in a laundry basket of mixed loose LEGO bricks and asks what you'll pay. Walk us through how you'd approach it.
- This role starts part time+, and the first several weeks are buildout, sorting, and pricing with no customers. Tell us why that appeals to you.
Work Location: In person
