Events Coordinator
About the role
The Events Coordinator is responsible for assisting with the execution of strategic brand events, store installations, and experiential activations. This role will interact with vendors as well as multiple internal teams including Marketing, Retail, Content, Visual Merchandising, and Design.
Responsibilities
- Support 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
- Bachelor’s Degree required.
- Minimum 2+ years of experience producing live events and immersive installations.
- Knowledge in technical production and custom fabrication processes, with vendor 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 a fast-paced environment.
- Must be able to prepare and manage detailed project budgets.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
- Adept problem-solver with the ability to address and resolve challenges to meet creative and brand standards.
- Ability to operate with a strong sense of ethics in all professional dealings.
- Ability to travel, domestically and internationally.
- Ability to work a flexible schedule.
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 a forward-thinking, solution-oriented mindset; ensuring projects, processes, and procedures are built out for long-term success and within the 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 teams; ensures that all decisions are made 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; ensures that strong ethics and empathy are behaviors continuously exuded. Their behavior is the best reflection of the Brand’s vision, mission, and goals.
About Kith
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 devoted to creating positive change through education, community, and social impact.
Pay
$55,000 - $60,000 annually
Schedule
Full-time / 100% on-site at HQ in Williamsburg, Brooklyn