Visual Merchandiser

KITH; New York (NY); On-site; USD 36,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Kith is seeking a Visual Merchandiser to join the Williamsburg, Brooklyn store. The role partners with the General Manager and Visual Merchandising leadership to execute merchandising strategies that improve brand image and sell-through.

You will guide in-store storytelling through displays, standards, and impactful imagery. The position is full-time with on-site responsibilities, requiring flexibility for evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Qualifications

• 2–3 years management experience in a customer facing role.
• 2+ years in a merchandising/visual focused role.
• 1+ year experience with Google Suite (slides/docs/sheets), preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Merchandise store and update displays daily/weekly in collaboration with store leadership.
• Implement visual merchandising directives from GM, VM Manager, or Director of Retail Visuals.
• Lead visual training sessions for the store team.
• Collaborate with stock team to ensure on-floor product availability.
• Conduct weekly walk-throughs to audit and improve visual moments.
• Maximize store space and layout based on SKU management.
• Conceptualize new visual store ideas with leadership.
• Assist with housekeeping and standard retail operations.
• Assist in cycle counts and inventories.
• Travel to support other stores as needed.

Skills

Effective communication

Multi-tasking

Time management

Physical strength 25lbs

Stand/walk for long periods

Google Suite proficiency

Tools

Google Suite

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE

Location: Williamburg, Brooklyn

Status: Full-time

Compensation: $26.00-27.00/ hr

Position Summary

The Visual Merchandiser will work with their General Manager as well as the Visual Merchandising Manager(s) and Director of Retail Visuals to create, implement, and execute all merchandising strategies to increase product effectiveness, brand image and sell throughs. The Visual Merchandiser is the store's storyteller in product merchandising and execution. They drive the customer experience through detailed standards and product impactful imagery.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Primary Responsibilities

• Responsible for the look and feel of the store and all departments.
• Partners with their General Manager and Visual Merchandising Manager to merchandise store and update displays daily/weekly.
• Implement and execute all visual merchandising directives communicated from General Manager, Visual Merchandising Manager and/or the Director of Retail Visuals
• Lead any visual training/educational moments for the store team.
• Work closely with the stock team to ensure the product gets on the floor in a timely manner.
• Conduct weekly walk-throughs with management to understand and analyze how visual moments can be amended/improved to better impact overall business.
• Maximize the space and layout of the store based on given SKU management.
• Partner with General Manager, Visual Merchandising Manager and the Director of Retail Visuals to conceptualize new and fresh visual store ideas.
• Assist store management team with housekeeping responsibilities including but not limited to, dusting, sweeping, collection of trash, and other tasks traditionally associated with standard retail operations.

Special Projects/Tasks

• Efficiently assist in the execution of any cycle counts, physical inventories or other inventory management task(s) as required by the business
• Travel to support other stores, as required by the business

REQUIREMENTS

Availability

• Open & flexible availability, including but not limited to evenings, overnights, and weekends as well as Holidays.
• Availability to consistently work weekends, special projects, drops/releases or as the business' needs require.

Experience

• 2-3 years management experience in a customer facing role
• 2+ years in a merchandising/visual focused role
• 1+ year experience with Google Suite (slides/docs/sheets), preferred but not required.

Skills/Abilities

• Effective and thorough communicator
• Ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects at once
• Efficient time manager
• Ability to lift and move 25lbs.
• Ability to perform standard tasks that are related to retail operations including but not limited to, bending, twisting, and climbing ladders/step stools.
• Ability to stand and walk for prolonged periods of time.

WHO YOU ARE

Professional Characteristics

• Detail oriented with a keen eye towards visuals
• Organized and adaptive
• Solution driven

Personal Characteristics

• Creative
• Independent
• Resourceful

WHO WE ARE

Established in 2011 in New York City, Kith is a lifestyle brand and specialty retailer that offers seasonal collections of men's, women's and children's apparel, accessories and footwear through a distinct lens of personal storytelling. Kith embodies a multi-faceted lifestyle, with uncompromising detail to fabrication and design. Led by Founder, CEO and Creative Director Ronnie Fieg, the brand is known globally for evoking nostalgia from a dynamic point of view, and working closely with a carefully selected set of best-in-class collaborators.

Kith operates 16 standalone boutiques around the world, and 3 shop-in-shops. Kith Treats, conceived from Fieg's childhood love for cereal, operates in 10 locations, as well as Sadelle's at Kith restaurants in Paris, Miami Design District, Toronto and Seoul.

The Kinnect Foundation, a non-profit established and operated by Kith, is a non-profit devoted to creating positive change through education, community and social impact.

Kith is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

All career opportunities offered by Kith are fully on site, and if contacted, all email communication will come from a kith.com or kithnyc.com email address. Please note that any correspondence from an alternative email domain, or offering remote or hybrid work, is fraudulent.