careers

Why Work at Jo-Ann

Starting with a single retail store in Cleveland, Ohio, Jo-Ann has been delivering sewing and crafting products for over 65 years. Jo-Ann is the nation's largest specialty retailer of fabrics and one of the largest specialty retailers of crafts. We serve customers in their pursuit of sewing, embroidery, crafting, scrapbooking, home decorating and other creative endeavors. Today, we operate over 751 stores in 48 states.

A career at Jo-Ann is not just a job—it’s inspiration for creativity.

Life in Hudson and Vicinity

• Great standard of living
• Excellent schools and Universities
• Close to Cleveland, Akron, Pittsburgh
• Cultural Activities—Blossom Music Festival, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Orchestra, Akron Art Museum
• Outdoor Activities—Hiking, Biking, Camping, Boating, Fishing

Benefits

Jo-Ann is committed to all team members enjoying a balanced and enjoyable life. As such, we design our competitive benefits package to help our Team Members “LIVE WELL & STAY WELL” no matter what your life stage.

In addition to holidays, paid-time-off (PTO), and flexible work hours, both full and part-time team members have choices from a variety of benefit plans that are robust, affordable, and help provide peace of mind. For example:

• Our health programs encourage wellness and preventive health care to help make staying healthy for you and your family easy and affordable.
• Medical: Team Members can choose from several different medical plan options depending upon their unique lifestyle, needs, and priorities. Our most common option, offers preventive care at low co-pays with no deductible to help keep good health simple and affordable.
• Dental: A robust dental plan is available that includes coverage for preventive, basic, major, and orthodontic care to keep you and your family smiling all day long.
• Vision: Our vision coverage provides affordable care including complete eye exams, lenses and frames, or contact lenses.
• Other great health benefits include:
• Healthcare Spending Account
• Employee Assistance Program
• Access to a Registered Nurse 24 hours a day

Staying well can sometimes have its challenges. As a Jo-Ann Team Member, you’ll have the benefit of peace of mind knowing your family is protected with affordable plans when you need them.

Team Members may be eligible for:

• Company-Paid Basic Life Insurance
• Company-Paid Short-Term Disability
• Long-Term Disability
• Dependent Care Spending Account
• Hospital and Cancer Plans
• Voluntary Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
• Discounted Home & Auto Insurance
• Family and Medical Leave (Employee Rights and Responsibilities)

Jo-Ann knows that financial security is a top priority for our Team Members. As such, we offer great programs like these to help our Team Members plan for their future.

• 401(k) Plan: The Jo-Ann Stores 401(k) Savings Plan allows Team Members to contribute a portion of their pay on a pre-tax basis to build up savings for retirement. Currently, we match 50% of every $1 contributed to the plan up to 6% of eligible salary.
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ASOP): This plan allows Team Members to buy shares of Jo-Ann stock (JAS) at a 15% discount.
• College Savings Plan: An easy way to start saving now for college tuition.

Organizational Development

Management-In-Training Program
The Jo-Ann approach is to build our leadership foundation through understanding business processes, team engagement and development. The Management-in-Training (MIT) Learning System is a structured, self directed, and competency ?based training program for store leadership. For external hires joining the Jo-Ann store Leadership Team, the Manager-In-Training Learning System provides comprehensive training that focuses on all leadership positions at store level. The MIT Learning System provides new Team Leaders with the skills and knowledge to be successful in each leadership position at each level. The MIT Learning System is designed to clarify job responsibilities and promote development within each store leadership position.

Internship Program
The Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores summer internship program is based in the Store Support Center in Hudson, Ohio. Our internships are designed to encourage relationship building, participation, teamwork and diversity across the entire company.

During the structured 12-week internship at Jo-Ann, you will acquire real-life career experience working with experts to learn about company and retail industry culture. This program allows you to participate in a variety of career development activities and assigns a corporate mentor that will work with you to provide guidance. In addition to obtaining a general operational knowledge of our business, you will work on department specific projects that will enable you to combine and apply your academic knowledge and experience to impact the department?s bottom line. At the completion of the Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores summer internship program the interns will walk away with not only knowledge of the company and retail industry, but with professional relationships with industry experts.

Professional Development

Here at Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores we value our Team Members and their career development. Jo-Ann is committed to providing our Team Members with the essential skills and tools to increase productivity and enhance leadership potential. We offer a variety of professional, technical and leadership development courses that cover a wide range of topics. These courses enable Team Members to drive their career and assist in achieving their career goals.

Training & Development

Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores is committed to providing our Team Members with essential skills and tools to increase productivity and enhance leadership potential. Our Jo-Ann University learning management system enables you to proactively guide your professional development.

Competency-based learning is available to Team Members at all levels. Courses are available in the areas of Legal Compliance, Technical Training, Professional Development and Leadership Development. Jo-Ann offers different ways to enhance your learning, including classroom training, online training, self-study and specialized training for teams.

Jo-Ann University includes development opportunities for everyone, offering, “Learning that Empowers performance!”

Search Open Positions

Join our Team. Whether you are pursuing positions at one of our 751 stores or at our corporate offices, we welcome your talents and enthusiasm as we strive to create a customer experience that is like no other.

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