Events Coordinator

Location: HQ - Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Status: Full-time / 100% on-site

Compensation: $55,000 - $60,000 annually

Position Summary: The Events Coordinator is responsible for assisting with the execution of strategic brand events, store installations, and experiential activations. This role will interact with our vendors as well as multiple internal teams including Marketing, Retail, Content, and Visual Merchandising, and Design.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Primary Responsibilities

• Support with the day-to-day management and logistics of all experiential initiatives including VIP events, third-party

• activations, hospitality trips, and more.

• Source and bid third party vendors and independent contractors for projects.

• Create project briefs to distribute information to the necessary internal teams.

• Independently manage on-site logistics for smaller scale activations.

• Organize and attend meetings with vendors and venues.

• Negotiate fees and terms with vendors as needed.

• Catalog invoices and work closely with Accounts Payable to ensure all vendors are paid in a timely manner.

• Coordinate meetings with vendors, venues, and the internal Kith Team.

• Create and manage production schedules for events and installations.

• Manage and update internal events calendar.

• Manage and update internal catalog of event and installation photography and recaps.

REQUIREMENTS

Experience

• Bachelor's Degree Required.

• Minimum 2+ years experience producing live events and immersive installations.

• Knowledge in technical production and custom fabrication processes, with vendors and production partner relationships.

• Proficiency in G-Suite, Office 365, and Adobe Creative Suite.

Skills

• Strong organizational skills, with high attention to detail.

• Ability to multitask, in fast-paced environment.

• Must be able to prepare and manage detailed project budgets.

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.

• Adept problem-solver with ability to address and resolve challenges to meet creative and brand standards.

• Ability to operate with strong sense of ethics in all professional dealings.

• Ability to travel, domestically and internationally.

• Ability to work flexible schedule.

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.