Kendo Retail Makeup Artist

About Kendo

Kendo is a dynamic beauty brand incubator within the LVMH family, renowned for creating and scaling distinctive names that shape contemporary prestige beauty. Since its founding in 2010, the company has combined entrepreneurial agility with the resources and standards of a global luxury group, fostering brands such as Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin, Ole Henriksen, and KVD Beauty. As an employer, Kendo offers an inventive, fast-moving environment where creativity, commercial rigor, inclusivity, and digital fluency converge. Its teams are encouraged to challenge convention, build culturally resonant products, and contribute to a portfolio defined by innovation, authenticity, and global ambition.

Role & Responsibilities

• Contribute to personal and counter sales targets by demonstrating makeup artistry, delivering excellent customer service, applying selling skills and product knowledge, and engaging, inspiring and empowering customers with Fenty Beauty by Rihanna.
• Contribute to brand goals and sales targets.
• Represent the brand professionally and ethically, modelling respect, initiative, enthusiasm and flexibility, and following Kendo, brand and Sephora guidelines.
• Build positive, collaborative relationships with team members and store partners.
• Develop a loyal clientele to drive sales through makeup artistry, selling and service skills, delivering a flawless customer experience.
• Use in-depth makeup knowledge to advise customers on suitable products and their features and properties.
• Attend initial brand training and further training to stay current on trends, products and offerings.
• Support consistent housekeeping and high presentation and visual merchandising standards.
• Maintain excellent personal grooming standards.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a department store environment with a prestige or artistry brand.
• At least 1 year of retail experience, with a proven track record in a beauty sales environment.
• Accomplished, high-level makeup artistry background.
• Experience building a clientele portfolio.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to listen effectively.
• Strong interpersonal skills for building rapport with customers.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Empathetic and inclusive, confident and professional.
• Informed interest in and genuine passion for beauty.
• Adaptable and flexible, with a drive for results.
• Professional and courteous conduct to maintain a positive brand image.
• Ability to speak knowledgeably about Rihanna.

Skills

Experience

Previous department store experience with a prestige or artistry brand; at least 1 year of retail experience in a beauty sales environment.

Culture

Kendo offers a fast-moving, entrepreneurial culture where brand builders, creatives, and beauty experts collaborate to develop distinctive global beauty brands. As part of the LVMH ecosystem, it combines the agility of an independent incubator with the standards, resources, and international perspective of a luxury group. The environment values innovation, inclusivity, commercial excellence, and hands-on ownership at every level.

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