Stylist

About Kate Spade New York

Kate Spade New York began in 1993 with a small line of six must-have handbags and has grown into a global lifestyle brand recognized for its bright, confident, and upbeat personality. The brand creates seasonal collections across handbags, ready-to-wear, jewelry, footwear, home décor, and more, with a distinct design perspective and a celebration of women living authentic, imperfectly perfect lives.

The company sits within the Tapestry portfolio, a worldwide group of brands focused on expanding what is possible. Tapestry values a workplace shaped by diverse backgrounds, viewpoints, and experiences, with a strong commitment to equity, inclusion, and diversity for employees, customers, and partners.

Role Overview

The Stylist acts as a trusted product advisor, helping customers choose items that reflect their style, needs, and daily lifestyle. This role supports shoppers in discovering how to wear Kate Spade pieces in ways that complement their existing wardrobe, while also guiding them toward complete, polished looks.

What You Will Do

• Welcome customers in a warm, confident manner and demonstrate strong product knowledge.
• Listen carefully, ask thoughtful questions, and uncover customer preferences and needs.
• Offer styling guidance, recommend complementary items, and build complete outfit suggestions.
• Use creativity to show different ways products can be worn and inspire customers to try new looks.
• Support buying decisions and help deliver a smooth, efficient checkout experience.
• Reinforce customer confidence in their choices and encourage return visits.
• Help drive sales through strong customer relationships and effective brand storytelling.
• Build detailed knowledge of the brand and the features of products across all categories.
• Maintain strong store operations, including stockroom order and accurate POS transactions.
• Share and receive feedback in a direct, constructive, and professional way.

Requirements

• Professional selling ability, along with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Previous experience working in a retail environment.
• Ability to handle multiple priorities, stay organized, and collaborate well with a team.
• Comfort with social media and a willingness to learn omni-channel and virtual selling methods.
• Good English skills, or local language proficiency depending on the market.
• Availability for a flexible schedule based on business needs, including nights, weekends, peak seasons, busy retail periods, and public holidays.
• This role description is not exhaustive and may not cover every duty or performance expectation.

What Kate Spade New York Offers

• An inclusive, creative, and enjoyable workplace.
• Internal mobility and opportunities to progress your career.
• One paid volunteering day each year, plus chances to support global volunteer initiatives.
• Learning and development support through the Ambassador Programme.
• Regular social activities and events.
• Equity, inclusion, and diversity programs, including employee resource groups and regional inclusion councils.
• Staff discount and an attractive incentive scheme.

Competencies

The role aligns with core employee competencies such as courage, creativity, customer focus, comfort with ambiguity, drive for results, interpersonal effectiveness, and learning agility. For people managers, the broader framework also highlights strategic thinking, coaching and development, and team-building capabilities.

Equal Opportunity

Tapestry is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline, and termination decisions are based on qualifications and job requirements only, without regard to protected characteristics such as age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, color, religion, ethnicity, national origin, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or other legally protected status.

Compensation

The base range for the full-time equivalent role is £26,325.00 to £28,000.00. Since this is a part-time position, pay will be adjusted proportionately according to contracted hours. Final compensation will be set using objective, job-related criteria.