Job Abstract

Forget what you know about old-school industry rules. When you work at Old Navy, you’re choosing a different path. From day one, we’ve been on a mission to democratize fashion and make shopping fun again. Our teams make style accessible to everyone, creating high-quality, must-have fashion essentials for the whole family, with love, season after season.

We opened our first store in 1994 in San Francisco and have been on a roll ever since. We cultivate a community of playful personalities that thrive in a fast-paced environment where our employees can be their most authentic selves. Here, we’re family.

As a District Manager, you lead a portfolio of stores and coach a team of General Managers to deliver an optimal customer and employee experience, operational excellence, merchandising execution, maximum productivity and profitable sales and earnings growth. You are accountable to drive consistent, high performance across all initiatives, and for ensuring consistency between your stores as measured by the P&L and other reports.

• Attract, hire, develop and retain the best team to meet both short and long-term business goals.
• Monitor performance and consistently followup to ensure results are delivered.
• Develop individual and team performance & capabilities via clear expectations, intentional conversations, meaningful recognition and accountability.
• Foster and maintain an inclusive and collaborative work environment.
• Identify themes in product performance across your portfolio and create a district merchandising plan to excel performance utilizing data points, strategy and seasonality
• Lead effective store visits focused on driving behaviors which enable the team to consistently deliver results in all areas of the business.
• Identify and use multiple ways to achieve goals when confronted with obstacles; plan for contingencies.
• Identify and solve problems with sustainable solutions
• Maintain a keen awareness of the external market and competition
• Ensure stores are operating in compliance with all Gap Inc. policies and procedures 

• Demonstrated ability to drive results; execute based upon direction and manage multiple, competing priorities
• Demonstrated ability to build merchandising capability and coach to sustain merchant strength in stores
• Demonstrated ability to build diverse, high performing teams with an inclusive environment
• Demonstrated ability to deliver an exceptional customer experience via all channels
• Demonstrated ability to continually embrace challenges, take risks, learn fast and enable change.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve beyond what is expected, and take actions or use improvements or learnings to exceed existing goals.
• College degree preferred.
• 3+ year’s multi-unit, high volume, complex business leadership preferred.
• Flexible to work days, nights, weekends and holidays to meet the needs of the business.
• Ability to travel overnight and/or between stores as required.
• Ability to lift and carry 30lbs.

• Merchandise discount for our brands: 50% off regular-priced merchandise at Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic and Athleta, and 30% off at Outlet for all employees.
• One of the most competitive Paid Time Off plans in the industry.*
• Employees can take up to five “on the clock” hours each month to volunteer at a charity of their choice.*
• Extensive 401(k) plan with company matching for contributions up to four percent of an employee’s base pay.*
• Employee stock purchase plan.*
• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance.*
• See more of the benefits we offer.

*For eligible employees