Kate Spade Stylist

About Kate Spade

Kate Spade is a vibrant American luxury lifestyle brand known for its spirited New York sensibility, joyful color, and polished modern femininity. Founded in 1993, the house has grown from an iconic handbag label into a global name spanning accessories, ready-to-wear, jewelry, footwear, home, and lifestyle. As an employer, Kate Spade offers a creative and collaborative environment where individuality, optimism, and thoughtful design are central to the culture. Part of Tapestry, Inc., the brand provides opportunities across retail, merchandising, design, digital, marketing, and corporate functions, inviting talent to contribute to a distinctive vision that celebrates wit, elegance, and everyday sophistication.

The Stylist at Kate Spade New York advises customers on selecting products suited to their aesthetic and lifestyle, helping them express personal style and incorporate Kate Spade products into their wardrobes. The role combines customer engagement and styling with sales, product expertise and store operations, and requires a flexible part-time schedule, including nights, weekends, busy season and public holidays.

Role & Responsibilities

• Welcome guests warmly and confidently, demonstrating strong product knowledge.
• Listen actively and ask insightful follow-up questions to understand customer needs.
• Provide styling advice, suggest add-ons and create complete looks.
• Show creative ways to wear products and encourage customers to explore new styles.
• Guide customers through purchase decisions and provide a seamless checkout experience.
• Reinforce and celebrate customer choices, inviting them to return.
• Drive results through strong customer connections and storytelling.
• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the brand and product attributes across all categories.
• Maintain operational excellence, including stockroom organization and POS transactions.
• Give and receive feedback honestly and constructively.

Qualifications

• Professional selling skills and exceptional interpersonal and communication abilities.
• Prior experience in a retail environment.
• Ability to multitask, prioritize and collaborate in a team setting.
• Social media awareness and willingness to learn omni/virtual selling techniques.
• English proficiency or proficiency in the local language, depending on the market.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule to meet business needs, including nights, weekends, busy season, high-traffic retail days and public holidays.
• Ability to lift at least 25 lbs. regularly and up to 50 lbs. occasionally, and to climb, bend, kneel and maneuver around the sales floor and stockroom.
• Demonstrates courage, including providing direct, complete and actionable positive and corrective feedback and addressing people-related problems promptly.
• Demonstrates creativity and generates original ideas and connections.
• Demonstrates customer focus, gathers first-hand customer information for improvements, and builds effective, trust-based customer relationships.
• Effectively handles change, ambiguity, risk and uncertainty, and makes decisions without having the full picture.
• Demonstrates drive for results and works consistently to exceed goals.
• Builds rapport and constructive relationships across the organization, using diplomacy and tact and diffusing tense situations.
• Learns quickly when facing unfamiliar problems, adapts to change, and analyzes successes and failures to improve.

Skills

Experience

Prior experience in a retail environment.

Workplace

Compensation

The base compensation for this position ranges from USD 15 to USD 19.25 per hour.

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision insurance; 401(k); paid paternity and maternity leave; commuter benefits; disability insurance; tuition assistance.

Culture

Kate Spade fosters a workplace culture rooted in optimism, creativity, and a distinctive sense of playful sophistication. As an employer, it encourages collaboration, individuality, and an entrepreneurial spirit, empowering teams to bring joyful, customer-focused storytelling to every aspect of the brand experience.

About Cerulean

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