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Location: HQ - Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Status: Full-time / 100% on-site

Compensation: $65,000 - $70,000 annually

Position Summary: The VIP Associate plays a critical role in managing day-to-day operations across VIP initiatives, including project timelines, budgets, seeding logistics, and cross-functional communications. This position is responsible for cultivating and maintaining VIP relationships through database management and talent identification, while supporting the seamless execution of gifting programs, brand partnerships, and high-profile activations. Working in close collaboration with the Marketing, Events, and Partnerships teams, the ideal candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, and skilled at managing multiple priorities to deliver elevated, on-brand experiences.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support end-to-end VIP project management for brand partnerships and marketing activations, monitoring timelines, budgets, and cross-functional communications to ensure all deliverables are met on schedule.

• Manage all seeding logistics including product ordering, package fulfillment, shipment tracking, and coordination with Operations, Production, and the warehouse to meet send-out deadlines.

• Support VIP hospitality trips and brand events by managing RSVPs, travel arrangements, and guest details including sizing, dietary restrictions, and product gifting.

• Support with on-site execution for events and other activations.

• Maintain a confidential VIP database, flag talent for relevant projects, and develop opportunity decks for new and existing talent to support strategic relationship growth.

• Partner with the external PR agency on guest lists, seeding lists, and press activations.

• Own all recap decks following activations and events, and track and manage the overall VIP department budget.

• Monitor VIP social engagement to inform seeding and partnership strategies.

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's Degree required.

• Minimum of 3 years experience in a VIP, public relations, marketing or an adjacent industry.

• 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).

WHO YOU ARE

Professional 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.

• Discretion: Exercises sound judgment and maintains strict confidentiality when handling sensitive information.

Personal Characteristics

• 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 anything other than in-person work, is fraudulent.