Private Client Director

Watson Style Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tiered residual commission

Job summary

Watson Style Group, a female‑founded luxury personal styling firm, is hiring a Private Client Director to join the leadership team. The role focuses on managing UHNW relationships across the country with studios in Chicago and New York, delivering bespoke styling and strategic wardrobe solutions.

You are a trusted advisor and leader, bridging hands‑on styling with high‑level client relations, to close gaps current platforms cannot address.

Qualifications

• Five or more years in luxury personal styling or high‑touch client advisory.
• Proven success building and maintaining long‑term relationships with UHNW women.
• Deep luxury fluency — fashion, fit, fabrication and lifestyle rhythms.

Responsibilities

• Deliver exceptional personal styling experiences with deep fluency across in‑person and virtual sessions and ongoing wardrobe relationships.
• Manage a portfolio of UHNW client relationships with precision, warmth and discretion.
• Curate every look and oversee foundation outfit construction and lookbook quality control.
• Lead and delegate in partnership with Assistant Stylists.
• Solve complex client and business challenges with creativity and proactivity.

Skills

Luxury styling

Client advisory

Relationship management

Discretion

Communication

Job description

Watson Style Group is a female-founded personal styling firm redefining luxury wardrobe transformation for UHNW women nationwide. We work with clients across the country, with studios in Chicago and New York.

We are hiring a Private Client Director to join our leadership team.

THE ROLE

The Private Client Director is a senior client-facing leadership role for an advisor who has spent years building deep, trusted relationships with UHNW women through luxury retail or a luxury fashion house. You are likely currently a top Personal Client Advisor, Senior Personal Shopper, Personal Stylist, or Client Relations Manager at a retailer such as Bergdorf Goodman, Moda Operandi, Saks Fifth Avenue, or Neiman Marcus — or at a comparable luxury fashion house such as Prada, Dior, Khaite, or Brunello Cucinelli.

You are a stylist first, but more than a stylist — you are a trusted advisor, a confident operator, and a relationship leader. You bring taste, trust, and tenacity. You deliver results.

You know what it feels like to want to do more for your clients than your current platform structurally allows. That is the gap Watson exists to close.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Deliver exceptional personal styling experiences with deep fluency in luxury fashion, fit, fabrication, and lifestyle-specific solutions — across in-person sessions, virtual touchpoints, and ongoing wardrobe relationships.
• Manage a portfolio of UHNW client relationships, with precision, warmth, and discretion.
• Curate every look. Final selection. Foundation outfit construction. Lookbook quality control.
• Lead and delegate in partnership with Assistant Stylists.
• Solve complex client and business challenges with creativity, grace, and a proactive mindset.

WHAT SETS WATSON APART

• The platform multiplies you. Operational work, pulling looks, assembling lookbooks, tracking orders — moves to your styling assistant and the platform. Your output per client is dramatically higher.
• You access 20+ retailers, not one. Watson shops across the full luxury landscape, including exclusive trade partnerships your clients cannot access independently.
• Watson delivers the experience your clients already wish they had. Custom and limited-run brand coordination, tailoring and cobbling logistics, closet digitization, custom digital lookbook, travel capsule packing, returns — all branded Watson, all part of the relationship you own.
• You are compensated like a senior advisor. Tiered residual commission that compounds, not the short windows standard in retail.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

• Five or more years in luxury personal styling or high-touch client advisory, preferably as a top performer at one of the retailers or houses noted above
• Proven success building and maintaining long‑term relationships with UHNW women
• Deep luxury fluency — fashion, fit, fabrication, and the rhythms of the UHNW lifestyle
• Strong taste, exceptional judgment, and a genuine love for the craft
• Discretion, professionalism, and poise at every touchpoint
• A natural ability to connect, communicate, and convert

COMPENSATION

• $130,000 base salary
• $265K+ OTE at full carry — uncapped
• Tiered residual commission on collected program revenue. The book you grow continues to pay you for the life of the relationship.

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Discretion guaranteed. We will not contact your current employer at any stage of the process. Conversations are held in confidence until you choose otherwise.

Watson Style Group is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of the clients we serve.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at all levels of our organization. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to any protected characteristic under applicable law.

Watson Style Group (WSG) is the nation’s only full-service personal styling firm serving clients coast-to-coast!

WSG offers premier luxury personal styling services from an expert, world-class team that saves you time. We deliver program excellence with an unbridled vision for your personal style, the experience is both comfortable and extraordinary. Our clients are treated to an entirely personalized approach designed to complement their every need. Attentive and professional, yet never pretentious, we guarantee a transformed wardrobe that gives you an outfit you love for everywhere you get to go.

WSG uses The Watson Style System (TM), a proprietary styling process designed by WSG world-class stylists and our clients. The process takes an inside out approach to personal styling by which our stylists design a wardrobe that highlights our clients’ values and strengths. This key part of our process is what ensures our clients love the way they feel in their clothing and results in a 97.4% client success rate. From this deep understanding of the client our stylists follow the remainder of the system which includes closet editing, organizing, strategic shopping and outfit creation. The tangible delivery of our process is a custom, digital look-book where clients can see their entire wardrobe styled into outfits that match their specific daily activities. The Watson Style System (TM) was designed to efficiently deliver outfits that empower our clients to show up as their best and bravest self every day and never ask the question "what should I wear today?"

Website

http://www.watsonstylegroup.com