Location: HQ - Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Status: Full-time/100% on-site
Compensation: $55,000-$60,000 annually
Position Summary
The VIP Relations Coordinator will support the VIP team across a variety of projects including partnerships, events, product seeding, and other marketing initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Play a critical supporting role in the overall organization of the marketing, events, and VIP teams
- Keep Marketing and VIP Calendar updated with all projects throughout the year
- Assure filing within the Google drive, shared albums, and Dropbox is organized
- Support internal and external project management and communications for brand partnerships and marketing activations
- Keep a close eye on deadlines to ensure all product/packing/labels/etc. are tracking on time for the deadline of every project
- Management of all Seeding buys with VIP Relations manager and related teams, assuring product is ordered in time and tracked appropriately for every project
- Clear communication between all teams if any delays are foreseen
- Organization of budgets for partnerships, projects, and experiential events
- Support VIP Relations Manager with seeding logistics including placing product orders, sending and tracking packages
- Stay on top of Operations and Production for any delays in product once submitted
- Make sure labels are submitted to the mailroom in time for send out date.
- Manage the packing of product for seeding packages either alone or with intern/store help
- Make sure tracking numbers are easily accessible on send out date
- Support VIP Relations Manager with hospitality trips including managing RSVPs, booking travel arrangements, and catering to special needs of the guests
- Help with the organization of guest lists including sizing, dietary restrictions, guest seeding boxes/shipping logistics, FF numbers, etc.
- Booking and managing travel with executive team and VIPs as needed
- Maintain digital rolodex of VIP contact information with utmost confidentiality
- Oversight of VIP database
- Help to assure all VIPs are considered for appropriate projects
- Develop opportunity decks for new and existing talent
- Develop and own all recap decks, send recaps to appropriate parties
- Manage and track overall VIP budget for the VIP Department.
- Collaborate with external PR agency as directed by Director of Marketing & Events
- Work with PR partners on guest list and seeding lists as needed
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree Required
- Minimum of 2 years experience in a marketing, public relations, or partnership role
- Strong organizational skills, with high attention to detail
- Ability to multitask, in fast-paced environment
- Self-led use of discretion and confidentiality
- Ability to operate with strong sense of ethics, in work and personal relationships
- Ability to and love of travel, domestically and internationally
- Willingness to work flexible schedule
- Advanced knowledge of G-Suite (G-Mail, Google Sheets, Google Docs)
- Advanced knowledge of Office 365 (PowerPoint, Excel)
Personal Characteristics
- Keen: Works with high attention to detail, ensuring that all aspects of an assignment, project and/or process are thought through, addressed and delivered for optimal results.
- Innovative: Works with forward-thinking, solution-oriented mindset; ensuring projects, processes and procedures are built out for long-term and within Brand's best interest.
- Team Player: Works well cross-functionally, and amongst their teams; ensuring that all decisions made are shared as a collective effort, with a high level of awareness of impact on others. Tends to be a voice of guidance.
- Heart: Works with passion and care; ensuring that strong ethics and empathy are behaviors continuously exuded. Additionally, their behavior is the best reflection of the Brand's vision, mission and goals.
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.
