Manager of Global Creative Visual Experience

Since its launch in 1993 with a collection of six essential handbags, Kate Spade New York has always been colorful, bold, and optimistic. Today, it is a global lifestyle brand that designs extraordinary things for the everyday, delivering seasonal collections of handbags, ready-to-wear, jewelry, footwear, home décor, and more. Known for its rich heritage and unique brand DNA, Kate Spade New York offers a distinctive point of view and celebrates communities of women around the globe who live their perfectly imperfect lifestyles. 

Kate Spade New York is part of the Tapestry portfolio – a global house of brands committed to stretching what’s possible.

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Manager - Creative Visual Experience 

Purpose: The Manager of Creative Visual Experience will be responsible for driving the integrated global visual concepts. This role reports to head of Visual Experience.

Partnering with the head of Visual Experience, you will creatively develop and bring to life the store experience for windows, showrooms, pop-ups, in-store take overs & seasonal moments. It will be critical for this role to actively partner with cross functional teams, including the Creative, Merchandising & Global Marketing for seasonal storytelling narrative, marketing campaigns and 2D assets.

You will take the colorful energy and playful sophistication of the brand to new heights of imagination, focused on creating a positive new thinking, as a disruptive force to an already successful fashion brand. Key focus is to engage the target consumer, drive traffic and continue to build the brand’s relevance and desirability.

Making a Visually Creative Impact across the world of Kate Spade 

• The successful individual will leverage their proficiency and flair to ensure the following key responsibilities.

Windows & In-Store

• Partner closely with head of VE/ Brand Creative to ideate and develop a 3D creative process, with clear milestones.
• Develop compelling creative concepts for windows, aligning with our brand campaign and seasonal creative. Utilize mood boards and share multiple concepts prior to final landing
• Partner with key VM & Merchandising partners for clear focus on Seasonal Strategies, linking Icon HB & Blockbuster HB’s. 
• Design to cost as part of process, thru knowledge of materials and value engineering ideation.  Partner with the VE 3D production lead for development thru production phases, and to successful execution of concept
• Ability to understand global nuances and adapt creative according (i.e. store tier, global flagship and core locations)
• Ability to convey strong visual experience in-store thru partnerships with global VM & Marketing teams.  (I.e. prop development / collaborate with marketing for any 2D collateral, etc.)

Seasonal Pop-ups/ Outposts/ Showrooms

• Research, explore and develop creative concepts for all seasonal brand pop-ups, linking to the 360 brand vision.
• Ability to adapt pop-up designs, based on cost, location & budget
• Closely collaborate with 2D teams to ensure concepts and creative synergy with marketing collateral 
• Partner closely with head of VE & Brand Creative to ideate the creative visual strategy for Showrooms, driving the showroom vision with clear milestone-Support the VM team with seasonal showroom design across all markets/channels
• Areas of responsibility’s include: Design & develop seasonal 3D concepts (within budget), Seasonal Props/ soft furnishings

Our Competencies for All Employees

• Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
• Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
• Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
• Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.

Our Competencies for All People Managers

• Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
• Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
• Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.

Kate Spade is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant's or employee's qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under the consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Tapestry, Inc. will provide applicants and employees with reasonable accommodation for disabilities or religious beliefs. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact Tapestry People Services at 1-855-566-9264 or employeerelations@tapestry.com

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BASE PAY RANGE $95,000.00 TO $106,600.00                                                                      

Here are some of the benefits that we offer: Medical insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, 401 (K), Paid Paternity and Maternity leave, Commuter Benefits, Disability insurance and Tuition assistance. Please click here for a complete list of U.S Corporate Compensation & Benefits.