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Our global IT organization collaborates across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia—offering IT talent the unique opportunity to understand different markets and cultural dynamics, as well as the opportunity to work locally and remotely on IT challenges. The TJX Companies, Inc., the leading off-price apparel and home fashions retailer in the U.S. and worldwide, was ranked 80 in the 2020 Fortune 500 company listings. At the end of 2019, the Company had more than 4,500 stores in nine countries, four e-commerce sites, and approximately 286,000 Associates. We operate T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, Sierra, Winners, Homesense, and T.K. Maxx as well as tjmaxx.com, marshalls.com, sierra.com and tkmaxx.com.

A SAAS platform for retailers and brands to create wonderful post purchase customer journeys using smart receipts technology. Smart receipt is a proprietary technology of Karnival. Which enables post purchase customer engagements by enabling various interactive features in-receipt. Invaluable customer profile data is collected following various guidelines like GDPR to interact at later stage and customer journey is designed intelligently

What We Are Building We are a proprietary digital marketplace modernizing the personal styling and fashion tech ecosystem. Currently operating in a private beta phase, our platform architecture is fully functional, launched, and validating successfully with an active user base. To protect our market entry strategy and proprietary user data, we are maintaining complete brand confidentiality during this early growth phase. The Strategic Opportunity While retail & fashion represents a multi-billion dollar global market, the consumer demand for personalized styling remains highly fragmented, opaque, and underserved. Historically, scaling this sector has suffered from prohibitive inventory overhead and logistical limitations. We are solving these inefficiencies through an asset-light, multi-sided marketplace model that connects consumer demand with expert personal styling services - eliminating inventory risk entirely while maximizing scalability and margin potential. The Partnership The company is led by an experienced business founding team with deep domain expertise and operational track records. We are expanding our executive suite to include a long-term Technical Co-Founder/CTO. This individual will take complete ownership of the technical roadmap, audit and optimize the existing platform infrastructure, and act as a strategic partner as we position the business for future institutional capitalization. (Full documentation and product access will be shared transparently with qualified candidates post-introduction.)

Michael Kors is a world-renowned, award-winning designer of luxury accessories and ready-to-wear. His namesake company, established in 1981, currently produces a range of products under Michael Kors Collection, Michael Kors, and Michael Kors Mens, including accessories, ready-to-wear, footwear, watches, jewelry, and a full line of fragrance products. Michael Kors stores are operated in the most prestigious cities in the world, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Milan, Paris, Dubai, Seoul, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro. In addition, Michael Kors operates digital flagships across North America, Europe, and Asia, offering customers a seamless omnichannel experience. At the center of it all, is a designer who has created an enduring and iconic luxury lifestyle empire with a distinctive point of view and global reach. Michael Kors has a sharp focus on providing his customers with accessories and clothes that are consistently polished, chic, relaxed, and glamorous. Kors has also been the recipient of numerous industry awards and accolades within the fashion industry, been honored for his philanthropy, and earned the respect and affection of millions. The fashion designer also focuses on giving back. For more than 25 years he has been a passionate supporter of God’s Love We Deliver, a New York-based non-profit organization that cooks and delivers nutritious meals to people living with serious illnesses in and around New York City. Continuing his philanthropic efforts, in 2013 Michael Kors launched “Watch Hunger Stop,” partnering with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to help fight world hunger. Proceeds from annual special-edition products, as well as from other targeted initiatives, help provide food to children through WFP’s school meals program. To date, Michael Kors has helped WFP deliver over twenty five million meals (and counting) to hungry children.

Tally -- The World's First Fully Autonomous Robotic Shelf Auditing & Analytics Solution for Retail.

Oriient helps brick-and-mortar retailers integrate their stores into the shopper’s digital experience. As the role of the brick-and-mortar store changes with the advent of m-commerce and e-commerce, retailers must provide their shoppers with an engaging digital experience along the entire customer journey, or lose their foot traffic. Oriient enables them to extend the digital experience into the store itself, reaching the shopper at the exact place and time for the purchase decision. Through proprietary technology, Oriient transforms every store into a “smart store”, giving shoppers a fun and engaging shopping experience while providing retailers with full visibility into the shopper journey and novel ways of connecting with the shopper where it matters the most. We bridge the offline-online gap!

We have a suite of products that are easing customers lives across verticals ranging from Mortgages to eCommerce. Our products are renowned in the industry and we are constantly looking at enhancing our customer experience and keep abreast with the changing technology landscape.

From cotton to customer our Global Supply Chain and Operations (GSC) and Product Operations organization is comprised of thousands of employees who source, produce and deliver Gap Inc.’s iconic American style around the world.

LevelsPro leverages gamification methods to teach, reinforce and motivate users to adopt an organization's best practices using work incentives, competitions and training games. Imagine that you work at a clothing store in the mall. You get points for every pair of jeans that you sell. You get points when you sell a top to go with the jeans. You get points when you play a training game to improve your ability to sell accessories. And when you get enough points you can earn an award - like an extra 10% discount, or the best parking spot in the lot, or your choice of shifts for a week. Wouldn’t you work a little bit harder to win those awards sooner? That’s what LevelsPro does. It takes the game play experience that we’ve all learned through casual games and applies it to the real work that’s done every day. It uses missions, points, levels and awards to motivate hourly workers to improve their skills, improve their performance and contribute more effectively to the team effort.