Verizon Communications is hiring: Retail Sales Associate in Town of Watertown

Job Location: 21882 Town Center DR, Watertown, New York

Job ID: R-1084497

Apply prior to the end date: October 5, 2025

What you’ll be doing

As a full-time Verizon Retail Sales Associate, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career with a team focused on unlocking your full potential and sales success within one of our retail stores. Here’s what you can expect:

• Generate retail sales by using your passion for cutting-edge technology, and exceptional customer service to expand the Verizon network.
• Learn and uncover customers' needs by creating connections and asking the right questions.
• Position product insights and solution recommendations to provide customers with a complete top-down sales solution.
• Close sales by using communication skills to fulfill customer needs with simple and intuitive tech solutions.
• Continuously develop yourself through ongoing training and up-skill in operational functions across merchandising and inventory.
• Potential to grow your customer base by placing outbound calls and sending text messages to current Verizon customers who are interested in our products and services.
• Engage with the community outside of the store to expand your loyal customer base, including at off-site Verizon sponsored events.

Compensation: You can earn $16.00 to $21.00 per hour in base pay, plus up to $16,000 a year in individual-based commissions if you hit all your sales goals. Top performers could earn additional commissions, giving you a total of $65,000+ to $73,500+ annually. Compensation varies by geography, hours worked, and performance.

Benefits and perks (starting day one) are designed to help you move forward in your career and in life outside of Verizon, including health and well-being benefits and support for education and career advancement.

• Best in class medical, dental, and vision
• Verizon 401(k) plan with matching contributions up to 6% of eligible participant contributions
• $2,500 stock grant per year
• Sales recognition programs with incentives
• Five weeks of paid time off (vacation, holidays, personal days)
• 8 weeks of paid parental leave for eligible new parents (up to 16 weeks when paired with short-term disability)
• Up to $8K per year in tuition assistance
• Discounts on Verizon products and services and additional employee discounts

This position is a great way to jumpstart your career. One in five Verizon Retail employees received lateral or promotional moves in 2024. You’ll hear from team members about our training, benefits, and culture of learning.

What we’re looking for

You’ll need to have:

• High school diploma or GED
• One or more years of relevant experience, demonstrated through work experience and/or military experience
• Willingness to work evenings, weekends, and holidays (schedule known four weeks in advance)
• Openness to pick up additional shifts and earn more income, typically during summer months and holiday peaks

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Experience working in a commission-based environment
• Demonstrated sales experience communicating with customers to find solutions
• Customer service experience

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working

This is a worksite-based role; you’ll work onsite at a defined location(s).

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere and always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Benefits and Compensation

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. They include health and wellness benefits, education and career support, a matched 401(k) savings plan, stock incentives, holidays and personal days, parental leave, tuition assistance, and discounts on products and services. Some benefits may vary by role and location. For part-timers, eligibility may vary.

Starting base pay rate (New York location): $16.59 per hour. This is a commission-based position with potential to earn more. You can grow your network while helping customers grow their businesses.

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