District Manager – Furniture & Home Retail
Dumos Inc.District Manager – Furniture & Home Retail Dumos Home | Southern California — Orange County / Los Angeles Area Build the team. Grow the stores. Own the results. Dumos Home is expanding its retail presence in Southern California, and we are looking for a hands-on District Manager to lead our stores and help build the next stage of our business. Our furniture stores in Irvine and Oxnard are already open, with a Dumos Outlet concept for returned, open-box, and clearance merchandise in development. Behind our retail business is an established e-commerce operation across Amazon, Walmart, TikTok Shop, and Wayfair, supported by 11 U.S. warehouses. This is an opportunity to take ownership of a growing retail network—from developing store managers and improving profitability to creating the systems that make new store openings successful. The Role You will oversee our furniture and outlet stores, directly manage store managers, and take responsibility for sales, profitability, customer experience, and operational execution. As we expand toward seven or more locations, you will build consistent processes that support growth across the network. What You’ll Lead Store performance and profitability: Own store P&L, including sales targets, gross margins, labor costs, and inventory shrinkage. Turn performance data into practical improvements. Store manager development: Recruit, train, coach, and evaluate store managers. Build effective staffing plans and develop a strong pipeline of future leaders. Retail operations: Establish consistent standards for daily operations, merchandising, pricing, replenishment, and customer service across all locations. Store and warehouse coordination: Manage inventory flow between warehouses and stores, including receiving, stocking, replenishment, and transfers. Outlet operations: Build processes for inspecting, grading, pricing, and reselling returned and open-box products. Develop clearance and markdown strategies. Local marketing and promotions: Partner with the marketing team to increase store visibility, drive customer traffic, and support in-store promotions. Customer experience: Set service standards and resolve escalated customer concerns. New store openings: Create repeatable procedures and coordinate operational readiness for new locations. Leadership reporting: Report weekly on sales, inventory, staffing, and priorities to the business owner based in China, supporting communication in English and Chinese. What You Bring At least 5 years of retail management experience , including 2 or more years overseeing multiple stores or a district . A proven record of managing sales, profitability, labor costs, and other store performance metrics. Hands-on experience with receiving, inventory management, and back-of-store or warehouse operations. Experience leading store managers, coaching teams, and retaining strong employees. A practical, entrepreneurial approach: comfortable building systems, solving problems, and working in a growing business. Ability to communicate effectively in English. Fluency in Mandarin Chinese is strongly preferred for direct communication with the owner in China. Based in Southern California, with a valid driver’s license and availability to travel regularly to Irvine, Oxnard, and warehouse locations. Experience That Stands Out Furniture, home goods, or large-format retail management. Outlet, liquidation, clearance, or open-box retail operations. Opening new stores and building operating processes from the ground up. Local community marketing, including Chinese community outreach and local social media. Why Join Dumos Home? Make a visible impact: Shape our retail operations at an early stage of expansion. Take real ownership: Lead store performance, develop managers, and build the processes that support growth. Build with an established foundation: Access the support of 11 U.S. warehouses and an experienced e-commerce operation. Grow with the business:…