We are growing and committed to building an all-star company. Our team is ambitious and passionate; the environment is creative, intense, entrepreneurial and fun.

The Museum of Sex seeks a creative Director of Communication who has the ability and passion to lead and strategically innovate traditional institutional communications.

RESPONSIBILITIES
As the Director of Communication you will build a team and lead all of the museum’s internal, marketing, and public communication:

Communications Strategy, Vision and Leadership

• Develop and implement an integrated strategic communications plan to advance MoSex’s brand identity; broaden awareness of its divisions (exhibition, bar, retail, event, product), programs and priorities; and increase the visibility across key stakeholder audiences
• Create both marketing and public relations strategy that will allow MoSex to cultivate both popular and targeted, high-level external audiences, including the media and key influencers
• Identify challenges and emerging issues faced by the organization. Work with leadership team and staff to recognize internal and external communications opportunities and solutions, and define and execute appropriate strategies to support them

Communications Operations

• Oversee development of all MoSex print communications including marketing collateral materials and electronic communications including MoSex’s website and new media; manage relationships with associated vendors
• Serve as a spokesperson and lead point person on media interactions that help promote and/or impact the organization
• Exercise judgment to prioritize media opportunities, and prepare talking points, presentations and other supporting material as needed
• Actively engage, cultivate, and manage press relationships to ensure coverage surrounding MoSex programs, special events, public announcements, and other projects
• Oversee the day-to-day activities of the communications function including budgeting, planning and staff development

Team Development/Management

• Recruit and manage a communications team to support the development and execution of the communications strategy
• Promote a culture of high performance and continuous improvement that values learning and a commitment to quality
• Mentor and develop staff using a supportive and collaborative approach on a consistent basis
• Establish and monitor staff performance and development goals, assign accountabilities, set objectives, establish priorities, conduct annual performance appraisals, and administer salary adjustments
• Work with other division leaders to craft new communication opportunities

REQUIREMENTS & QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, or related field is preferred
• Minimum 5 years experience in a senior management role either in-house or with an agency
• Demonstrated skill and comfort in proactively building relationships with top tier reporters and editors, and in successfully positioning subject matter with the media to achieve high-impact placements
• Extensive successful writing and editing experience (externally focused) with a variety of print and online communications media
• Demonstrated experience and leadership in managing a comprehensive strategic communications, media relations, and marketing program to advance an organization’s mission and goals
• Creative and thoughtful on how new media technologies can be utilized
• A minimum of five years experience in planning, writing, editing, and production of newsletters, press releases, annual reports, marketing literature, and other print publications and directories
• Innovative thinker, with a track record for translating strategic thinking into action plans and output
• Experience in building, mentoring, and coaching a team of communications interns and specialists
• Excellent judgment and creative problem solving skills, including negotiation and conflict resolution skills
• Superior management skills; ability to influence and engage direct and indirect reports and peers
• Self reliant, good problem solver, results oriented
• Ability to make decisions in a changing environment and anticipate future needs
• Energetic, flexible, collaborative and proactive; a team leader who can positively and productively impact both strategic and tactical finance, and administration initiatives
• Ability to operate as an effective tactical as well as strategic thinker
• Passion for MoSex’s mission, a hands-on leader who enjoys working in a creative, entrepreneurial environment.

COMPENSATION
Compensation based on experience, includes salary and the potential for a performance bonus.

TO APPLY
Please submit your resume with a cover letter to employment@museumofsex.com.

This installation is a combination of existing pieces and site-specific works created for the run of the show.

F*CK ART is curated by Emilie Baltz and Mark Snyder.

Chief Advisors Meghan Coleman and Alex Tanaka.

Objective:
We seek to provoke not simply the notions of museum-going experience by presenting provocative work, but also push the boundaries of what artists can create. This is not an exhibition for the timid, and we have engaged artists to use this space as a forum to create and present critical, provocative commentary around sexuality and its relationship to both human and cultural identity.

Highlights:
Upon entrance into the Fifth Avenue lobby, visitors will encounter the 14-foot FUCK BIKE #001 by Andrew H. Shirley & William Thomas Porter, as well as a display of The Future Tools Collection, a series of resurfaced/re-imagined sex toys by Wonderpuss Octopus. Cassius Fouler’s We’re F*cked wall of playfully explicit food-related iconography will lead visitors down to the Oral Fix Bar on the lower level of the Museum.

Upstairs in the gallery, Miss Van’s ultra-sensual, female figures are represented by a pair of her Twinkles paintings which flank The Magic Box, a hand-crafted illuminated wooden and velvet box complete with an oval painting inside that was created uniquely for the F*CK ART show.

Selections from Berlin-based street artist MODE 2’s one day painting installation on cardboard, “Urban Affairs Extended”, are on view next to ROSTARR’s Nation of Millions, a 113-inch canvas. Across the gallery, JMR’s abstract and colorful The Adventures of Hand Solo is presented alongside a wall by DROID, GEN 2 and OZE 108 of the 907 Crew. Six acrylic-on-plexi pieces by El Celso are mounted next to a fantasy Playboy alien installation by Patch Whisky.

Coming out of retirement for the show, the notorious DICKCHICKEN installs Dreams of Childhood, a wheatpaste wallpaper, hung with three acrylic and oil works on panel: ChickenDick, PollaPollo and Tribute to Keith.

Mixing contemporary American art movements and traditional Japanese aesthetics, the international street artist AIKO creates a full wall and object installation along the far side of the gallery. Across the room, San Francisco-based artist Jeremy Novy’s unique stencils of gay imagery create a counterpoint to AIKO’s feminine visuals with a series of stencil-on-panel and wheatpasted wallpaper.

Tony Bones’ life-sized wood-panel cutouts, WOLFTITS’ painted wolf-rug and B-rad Izzy’s blown up classified ads will also be on view next to RTTP, a collaboration between artists Nathan Vincent & Bryan Raughton. This duo explores the desires of men-seeking-men on Craigslist with a series of stickers and found panels which showcase their collection of “private desire” drawings pasted in the streets of New York.

Rounding out the group, the self-described “world’s premier graffiti asshole,” Australian artist LUSH, paints a site-specific wall complete with an interactive ice cream cart.

Participating Artists:

• AIKO
• Andrew H. Shirley
• B-rad Izzy
• Cassius Fouler
• DICKCHICKEN
• DROID, GEN 2, OZE 108 of 907
• El Celso
• Jeremy Novy
• JMR
• LUSH
• Miss Van
• MODE 2
• Patch Whisky
• ROSTARR
• RTTP: Nathan Vincent & Bryan Raughton
• Tony Bones
• William Thomas Porter
• WOLFTITS
• Wonderpuss Octopus

“As human behavior becomes more clickable than physical, we can’t help but wonder what this means for our most basic, biological impulse: sex.” says Mark Snyder, Director of Exhibitions and Co-Curator of “Universe of Desire.” The exhibition explores this very question by examining what we actually search for on the internet and what we leave behind.

Neuroscientists Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam, authors of the best-selling book, A Billion Wicked Thoughts, provide much of the inspiration for “Universe of Desire.” Ogas and Gaddam gathered and coded 400 million internet searches, 55 million of which (or roughly 13 percent) proved to be searches for some kind of erotic content. The findings mined from analyzing the internet habits of tens of millions of people worldwide will be on display in “Universe of Desire.”

These anonymous searches bring to question our identity by revealing both the expected “kinks” and “squicks” (squirm-inducing kinks), as well as the broad categories of shared desire that account for 80 percent of internet searches, including “cheating partners”, “youth”, “mature” and various genitalia. Confronted with this research we begin to see just how similar and different we all are as humans.

Supporting this content is a variety of media that amplifies and humanizes the scientific findings of A Billion Wicked Thoughts. Showcasing artifacts from Science, Culture, Art and Technology, Universe of Desire explores the virtual cataloging of our sexual wants, infatuations and yearnings by walking patrons through the kind of sex we, as humans, look up on the internet.

Photographer Natacha Merritt, author of Digital Diaries, has documented herself digitally for the last 14 years. As one of the first photographers to capture erotic imagery in a digital medium, a selection of this pioneering artist’s work is exhibited for the first time in its chronology, offering a visual timeline as example of photographic evolution, serving both as record and expression of our sexual desires through the last decade.

Further exploring the relationship between digital imagery and sexual fantasy, visitors to “Universe of Desire” are invited to engage with a series of video and interactive experiences. Highlights include a digital mirror created by Kevin Bleich and Gabriela Gutiérrez which literally deconstructs patrons into pixels, and projects avatars of their “digital selves” onto the walls of the gallery, while an interactive video collage from Johnny Woods lures visitors into a virtual romp of sexual artifacts designed to stimulate, provoke and delight audiences.

Additional artwork and artifacts from Science, Culture, Art and Technology include selections from The Sex Diaries Project: What We’re Saying About What We’re Doing by Arianne Cohen, a larger-than-life Facebook conversation between Rep. Anthony Weiner and Blackjack Dealer Lisa Weiss, and a giant patchwork quilt of facial expressions by Laura McMillian + Kristin Reger, ripped from beautifulagony.com, a user-generated site that invites contributors to upload images of their faces in the midst of orgasm.

Show Description:
In response to the growing anti-institution sentiment pervasive in our culture, the Museum of Sex has engaged a group of 20 select street artists to occupy the third floor gallery at the Museum of Sex. Showcasing work that pushes the boundaries of our relationship to sexuality in public space, F*CK ART invites a dialogue around the power of visual provocation in the urban environment.

This installation is a combination of existing pieces and site-specific works created for the run of the show.

F*CK ART is curated by Emilie Baltz and Mark Snyder.

Chief Advisors Meghan Coleman and Alex Tanaka.

Objective:
We seek to provoke not simply the notions of museum-going experience by presenting provocative work, but also push the boundaries of what artists can create. This is not an exhibition for the timid, and we have engaged artists to use this space as a forum to create and present critical, provocative commentary around sexuality and its relationship to both human and cultural identity.

Highlights:
Upon entrance into the Fifth Avenue lobby, visitors will encounter the 14-foot FUCK BIKE #001 by Andrew H. Shirley & William Thomas Porter, as well as a display of The Future Tools Collection, a series of resurfaced/re-imagined sex toys by Wonderpuss Octopus. Cassius Fouler’s We’re F*cked wall of playfully explicit food-related iconography will lead visitors down to the Oral Fix Bar on the lower level of the Museum.

Upstairs in the gallery, Miss Van’s ultra-sensual, female figures are represented by a pair of her Twinkles paintings which flank The Magic Box, a hand-crafted illuminated wooden and velvet box complete with an oval painting inside that was created uniquely for the F*CK ART show.

Selections from Berlin-based street artist MODE 2’s one day painting installation on cardboard, “Urban Affairs Extended”, are on view next to ROSTARR’s Nation of Millions, a 113-inch canvas. Across the gallery, JMR’s abstract and colorful The Adventures of Hand Solo is presented alongside a wall by DROID, GEN 2 and OZE 108 of the 907 Crew. Six acrylic-on-plexi pieces by El Celso are mounted next to a fantasy Playboy alien installation by Patch Whisky.

Coming out of retirement for the show, the notorious DICKCHICKEN installs Dreams of Childhood, a wheatpaste wallpaper, hung with three acrylic and oil works on panel: ChickenDick, PollaPollo and Tribute to Keith.

Mixing contemporary American art movements and traditional Japanese aesthetics, the international street artist AIKO creates a full wall and object installation along the far side of the gallery. Across the room, San Francisco-based artist Jeremy Novy’s unique stencils of gay imagery create a counterpoint to AIKO’s feminine visuals with a series of stencil-on-panel and wheatpasted wallpaper.

Tony Bones’ life-sized wood-panel cutouts, WOLFTITS’ painted wolf-rug and B-rad Izzy’s blown up classified ads will also be on view next to RTTP, a collaboration between artists Nathan Vincent & Bryan Raughton. This duo explores the desires of men-seeking-men on Craigslist with a series of stickers and found panels which showcase their collection of “private desire” drawings pasted in the streets of New York.

Rounding out the group, the self-described “world’s premier graffiti asshole,” Australian artist LUSH, paints a site-specific wall complete with an interactive ice cream cart.

Participating Artists:

• AIKO
• Andrew H. Shirley
• B-rad Izzy
• Cassius Fouler
• DICKCHICKEN
• DROID, GEN 2, OZE 108 of 907
• El Celso
• Jeremy Novy
• JMR
• LUSH
• Miss Van
• MODE 2
• Patch Whisky
• ROSTARR
• RTTP: Nathan Vincent & Bryan Raughton
• Tony Bones
• William Thomas Porter
• WOLFTITS
• Wonderpuss Octopus

Type. Swipe. Search. Upload. Download. Post. Stream. These are the new verbs of desire. Our most intimate thoughts, fantasies, and urges are now transmitted via electronic devices to rapt audiences all over the world. These transmissions—from sexts to webcam masturbation feeds—are anonymous yet personal, individual yet collective, everywhere and nowhere, and they are contributing to the largest sexual record to date. In short, desire has gone viral. But what does this mean? And what does it reveal about us? This exhibition explores these very questions through a lens of digital experience by examining what we are searching for, how we do it and what we leave behind on these electronic devices. In piecing this together, we begin to expose staggering truths about who we are and how we interact in this ever-changing world of modern sexuality.

“As human behavior becomes more clickable than physical, we can’t help but wonder what this means for our most basic, biological impulse: sex.” says Mark Snyder, Director of Exhibitions and Co-Curator of “Universe of Desire.” The exhibition explores this very question by examining what we actually search for on the internet and what we leave behind.

Neuroscientists Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam, authors of the best-selling book, A Billion Wicked Thoughts, provide much of the inspiration for “Universe of Desire.” Ogas and Gaddam gathered and coded 400 million internet searches, 55 million of which (or roughly 13 percent) proved to be searches for some kind of erotic content. The findings mined from analyzing the internet habits of tens of millions of people worldwide will be on display in “Universe of Desire.”

These anonymous searches bring to question our identity by revealing both the expected “kinks” and “squicks” (squirm-inducing kinks), as well as the broad categories of shared desire that account for 80 percent of internet searches, including “cheating partners”, “youth”, “mature” and various genitalia. Confronted with this research we begin to see just how similar and different we all are as humans.

Supporting this content is a variety of media that amplifies and humanizes the scientific findings of A Billion Wicked Thoughts. Showcasing artifacts from Science, Culture, Art and Technology, Universe of Desire explores the virtual cataloging of our sexual wants, infatuations and yearnings by walking patrons through the kind of sex we, as humans, look up on the internet.

Photographer Natacha Merritt, author of Digital Diaries, has documented herself digitally for the last 14 years. As one of the first photographers to capture erotic imagery in a digital medium, a selection of this pioneering artist’s work is exhibited for the first time in its chronology, offering a visual timeline as example of photographic evolution, serving both as record and expression of our sexual desires through the last decade.

Further exploring the relationship between digital imagery and sexual fantasy, visitors to “Universe of Desire” are invited to engage with a series of video and interactive experiences. Highlights include a digital mirror created by Kevin Bleich and Gabriela Gutiérrez which literally deconstructs patrons into pixels, and projects avatars of their “digital selves” onto the walls of the gallery, while an interactive video collage from Johnny Woods lures visitors into a virtual romp of sexual artifacts designed to stimulate, provoke and delight audiences.

Additional artwork and artifacts from Science, Culture, Art and Technology include selections from The Sex Diaries Project: What We’re Saying About What We’re Doing by Arianne Cohen, a larger-than-life Facebook conversation between Rep. Anthony Weiner and Blackjack Dealer Lisa Weiss, and a giant patchwork quilt of facial expressions by Laura McMillian + Kristin Reger, ripped from beautifulagony.com, a user-generated site that invites contributors to upload images of their faces in the midst of orgasm.

Additional artwork and contributions have been provided by Dirty Pillowz, Jesse Edwards, Hiroshi Kumagai, Tony Moriello, Janos Stone, PornHub and Wasteland.

Comics Stripped examines the history and cultural significance of the illustrators, icons and images that have entertained and educated (as well as equally misinformed) the basics of sex. From the coquettish to the most explicit “dirty drawings,” the exhibit presents the ultimate homage to sexual fantasy uninhibited by the constraints of reality.

From simple titillation to hardcore representations, comics have a long history of incorporating humor, scandal, fantasy and fun with sex. Originally used as a form of amusement and satire intended for adults, the societal perception of comics as wholesome entertainment geared toward children has made the inclusion of sexual content particularly jarring.

In recent years comics as a media has grown into a potent, dynamic and sometimes subversive form of art, worthy of academic investigation. Comics focused on erotic subjects are no exception, and tend to fall into two popular narratives: one uses familiar – sometimes mainstream – icons in “compromising” sexual situations, while the other constructs sexual encounters, acts and personas that cannot exist in reality and are constrained only by the illustrator’s imagination. For some, even the creation of erotic comics is a sexually charged experience, particularly if the sexual fantasy is in some way inaccessible in reality. As Tom of Finland famously said, “If I don’t have an erection when I’m doing a drawing, I know it’s no good.” Whether mass-produced or created as individual works of art, erotic comics are a reflection of society and unabashed sexual fantasy, where every sexual act ever performed or imagined exists.

Simpson Playboy
In showcasing the coquettish to the most sexually explicit “dirty drawings,” Comics Stripped will examine the history and cultural significance of the images, icons and illustrators that have entertained, educated (as well as equally misinformed) on the basics of sex and created a realm of sexual fantasy unlimited by the constraints of reality for generations.

Exhibition Credits

• Craig Yoe – Curator
• Sarah Forbes – Curator, Museum of Sex
• Mark Snyder – Creative Director, Museum of Sex
• OCD Agency – Exhibition Design

Lenders

• Colleen Coover
• Howard Cruse
• Jessica Fink
• Danny Hellman
• Alan Kaplan
• Playboy Enterprises, Inc.
• J.B. Rund
• Eric F. Sack
• Stanton Family Collection
• Tom of Finland Foundation
• Dean Yeagle
• Craig Yoe

In Obscene Diary, the rich sexual documentation of one remarkable individual, a professor, tattoo artist, pornographer and sexual record keeper, Samuel Steward will be unveiled. Steward’s self documentation included a catalogue of every partner and sex act, illustrated through photos, diary entries, sexual record keeping, explicit drawings and erotic literary musings.

In Obscene Diary: The Secret Archive of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist and Pornographer, the intimate sexual record-keeping of one individual is unveiled for all to see. Steward’s self-documentation includes a catalogue of every partner and each sex act performed, recorded through diary entries, photos, explicit drawings and erotic literary musings.

Recovered from a San Francisco attic in 2001, Samuel Steward’s preserved archive recently formed the basis of the widely acclaimed biography, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade, which was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award. The biography provides an amazing portrait of not only Samuel Steward, but of an entire generation of men who lived in the years before Stonewall, when it was dangerous to be openly homosexual. Presented to the public for the first and only time before its donation to a special collections library, this comprehensive group of artifacts from the Steward Archive forms the core of the exhibition.

Using a variety of textures and wall treatments, the exhibition features a replication of Steward’s own attic apartment and asks patrons to imagine what it would look like if their own sexual histories were documented so completely. And, perhaps more socially relevant: what would this say about the times in which we live?

Exhibition Credits

• Justin Spring, Curator
• Sarah Forbes, Curator, Museum of Sex
• Mark Snyder, Director of Exhibitions, Museum of Sex
• Emilie Baltz, Creative Director, Museum of Sex
• Daniel Colon, Mural Artist
• Harrison Apple, AV Editing
• Jose Garcia Huidobro, Wall Treatments
• Munire Kirmaci, Wall Treatments
• Vera Apuzen, Wall Treatments
• Cheungyoon Kim, Design Intern
• Kimberly Kulka, Design Intern

“Obscene Diary asks our patrons to reflect on what it would look like if their own sexual histories were documented and what this would say about the times in which we live. Rarely do we have an opportunity to see a sexual life so completely documented, providing an unprecedented peek into the private lives of men from an earlier era.”

- Sarah Forbes (Museum of Sex Curator)

Recovered from a San Francisco attic in 2001, Samuel Steward’s preserved archive recently formed the basis of the widely acclaimed biography, SECRET HISTORIAN:  THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SAMUEL STEWARD, PROFESSOR, TATTOO ARTIST, AND SEXUAL RENEGADE, which was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award. The biography provides an amazing portrait of not only Samuel Steward, but of an entire generation of men who lived in the years before Stonewall, when it was dangerous to be openly homosexual. Presented to the public for the first and only time before its donation to a special collections library, the Steward Archive  makes up the core of the exhibition Obscene Diary:  The Secret Archive of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist and Pornographer launching at the Museum of Sex on July 14, 2011.  Justin Spring, Steward’s biographer and exhibition curator said, “This exhibition features the most comprehensive group of artifacts from the Steward Archive that will ever be made available for public view.”

From his earliest years, Samuel M. Steward (1909 –1993) was curious about sex. By his early teens, Steward was already sexually active; one of his earliest reported sexual escapades was with the silent film heartthrob, Rudolph Valentino. During his early years as a university professor, Steward sought to understand the nature of his homosexuality through reading, writing and research, in a time period where sexual orientation was a forbidden topic and homosexuals were either invisible within the population or treated as outcasts and criminals.

Born in rural Ohio, Steward soon moved beyond this conservative small town environment to become a poet, novelist and scholar. He worked for seventeen years as a university professor, and established a number of literary, intellectual, and artistic friendships along the way with people such as Gertrude Stein, Alice Toklas, Thornton Wilder, and George Platt Lynes. His most sexually active years coincided with the McCarthy era, leading him to conduct clandestine sex parties in his Chicago apartment, to travel to Paris and Rome in search of a more sexually permissive environment, and even to establish himself for weeks at a time in a San Francisco YMCA, where he could enjoy the sexual freedom denied to him in his semi-closeted life as an academic.

The highly active sexual life Steward conducted first in Chicago and later in the San Francisco Bay Area involved mostly working-class, under-class, and criminal-class men. His narratives and statistical documentation of these encounters are catalogued in a vast archive describing his sexual interests and activities, which included flagellation, group sex, public sex, sex with hustlers, and sex involving bondage and discipline, domination and submission. His archive includes drawings, paintings, sculptures and photography as well as fiction, diaries, letters, journals and statistical calculations, most of which was intended for use by Alfred Kinsey’s Institute for Sex Research. Steward volunteered for the Institute both as a research subject and as a research associate, and donated significant portions of his archive to the Kinsey Institute during his lifetime. The majority of his archive, however, remained with Steward until his death in 1993.

Rebelling from his sexually claustrophobic life in academia in the mid-1950s, Steward left teaching to become a skid-row tattoo artist in downtown Chicago.  There his clientele included large numbers of sailors-in-training as well as hustlers, gang-members, and ex-cons. Under the assumed identity of tattoo artist “Phil Sparrow,” Samuel Steward was able to indulge his creative spirit while working with a seemingly endless stream of young sailors and military men who were his erotic ideal. Later, while tattooing in Oakland, California, Steward mentored the young, Ed Hardy, who would go on to become one of the world’s best known tattoo artists whose art serves as the basis for the popular Ed Hardy fashion line. Steward’s background in literature and the visual arts subsequently laid the path for yet another life transition in the mid-1960s, when the tattoo artist “Phil Sparrow” transformed himself yet again into “Phil Andros,” author of sex-positive gay pulp pornography.

The Steward Archive is alternately shocking and amusing, pathetic and uplifting, for it describes a life lived boldly and adventurously during a time of extraordinary sexual oppression. In viewing this remarkable archive, visitors will experience firsthand not only one man’s evolving perception of his own sexual nature and desires; but also the evolving awareness of homosexuality among Americans from the mid-1920s to the early 1990s.

The central artifact of the exhibition is Steward’s “Stud File,” a typed card catalogue featuring all of Steward’s sexual partners, the dates and places of their encounters, a coded key of the various sexual acts that took place as well as partners’ penile dimensions.

While some collections are meant to be private, this exhibition is an extension of Steward’s intentions to bring an honest confrontation of sexuality to the American public through the writing, art, photography and sexual record keeping of his lifelong collection, promising to be an event of significant cultural interest and importance as well as popular curiosity.

“I anticipate that the exhibition at the Museum of Sex is going to be groundbreaking and controversial, one that will continue to be discussed by people, both straight and gay, for years to come.”

-  Justin Spring (Author/Curator)

OVERVIEW:

The Museum of Sex is the world’s foremost institution and brand whose mission is to explore human sexuality as a central tenet of cultural discourse. We bring disruptive innovation to the cultural and commercial landscapes through exhibition, retail, food, digital, and other creative initiatives.

We are growing and committed to building an all-star company. Our team is ambitious and passionate; the environment is creative, intense, entrepreneurial and fun.

The Museum of Sex is seeking a design-oriented, motivated, senior-level retail store manager for the operations of their flagship store on 5th Avenue. This is a chance to develop a thoughtful, high-quality sexually related retail concept that is informed by scholarship and intellectual leadership. The right candidate will have an opportunity to redesign and implement the retail offering of one of New York City’s most unique cultural institutions. A refined aesthetic sensibility and ability to create high quality, provocative retail experiences across the categories of food, design, fashion, art and literature across luxury and mass market products is a must.

Candidates must meet the following criteria:

JOB DUTIES:

• Lead, manage and ensure the successful operations of the Museum of Sex flagship store and e-commerce site, reporting to the Museum Executive Director.
• Ensure Museum’s mission and corporate culture are upheld throughout retail operations by ensuring positive customer and vendor relations: in-person, over-the-phone and via e-mail.
• Build and maintain professional and skilled staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training employees and developing and implementing sales incentives/commission structure.
• Oversee merchandise selection, purchasing, and visual merchandising, in adherence to standards set by Museum creative direction.
• Work directly with the marketing/PR department to create marketing strategies/promotions.
• Optimize revenue by forecasting expenditures, analyzing inventory variances and initiating corrective actions.
• Innovate new ways of serving existing and potential customers.
• Maintain protocol for a pristine store environment.
• Formulate pricing structures to optimize sales including: reviewing merchandising activities, determining sales promotions, studying trends, etc.
• Communicate regularly with finance department including investigating credit card retrieval requests and charge backs.
• Ensure accurate, routinely-scheduled physical inventory counts and optimize inventory levels based on turnover.
• Secure merchandise by implementing security systems and measures.
• Direct reports include Merchandiser/Buyer, Inventory/Receiving Coordinator, Assistant Store Manager, E-commerce Manager and cashiers.

JOB SPECIFICATIONS:

• Minimum Experience: 10 years of experience in related organization with 4+ years in lead managerial role
• Minimum Education: BS/BA degree
• Preferred Previous Type of Company: Museum/hospitality/tourism/technology/retail industry

Special Experience, Qualifications and other comments:

• Merchandising and buying experience
• Excellent verbal, organizational and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal, customer service skills, detailed oriented and selling initiatives.
• Proficient in POS database maintenance, MS Office, and Outlook. Radiant’s Counterpoint preferred.
• Willingness to work a flexible schedule including evenings, weekends and special events.
• Frequent lifting of 1-5 pounds with ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
• Intelligent, energetic and enthusiastic leader to direct the retail operations of Museum dedicated to the preservation and presentation of Human Sexuality.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER – M/F/D

It is the policy of The Museum of Sex to affirmatively provide equal opportunity for employment and advancement without regard for race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, age, handicap or disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status as a veteran or special disabled veteran.

Please Apply To: employment@museumofsex.com