Tapestry Sr. Director, Visual Merchandising

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.

A member of the Tapestry family, we are part of a global house of brands that has unwavering optimism and is committed to being innovative and wholly inclusive. Visit Our People page to learn more about Tapestry's commitment to equity, inclusion, and diversity.

Primary Purpose: The Senior Director, Visual Merchandising will develop and implement compelling visual strategies and guidelines that drive brand awareness, support sales objectives, and maximize profitability. This role partners closely with cross-functional teams to identify key messages, define clear goals, and continuously elevate the consumer experience across all touchpoints.

• Define and lead the global visual merchandising strategy, ensuring alignment with brand positioning, commercial priorities, and long-term growth objectives.
  

·Manage the creation of monthly Window and In-Store Global VM Guidelines, ensuring clarity, consistency, and ease of execution across all markets.

·Partner with Global Merchandising, Marketing and Design to develop dynamic, innovative VM direction that elevates brand storytelling and drives commercial impact.

·Collaborate with Buyers to ensure VM direction is relevant, locally resonant, and executable across diverse markets.

·Oversee sample management, ensuring timely availability and accuracy for guideline creation, showroom builds, and seasonal presentations.

·Manage all VM guideline content, ensuring high-quality visual communication that supports flawless execution in stores.

·Oversee VM Communications to develop effective training tools, communication materials, and execution standards for global and regional teams.

·Lead the training and development of field visual leads, strengthening VM capabilities and ensuring consistent application of brand standards.

·Manage visual merchandising for seasonal showroom installations, corporate functions, and special events, ensuring cohesive brand expression across all environments.

·Partner cross-functionally with Merchandising, Marketing, VM Production, and Store Design to support global initiatives related to fixtures, props, graphics, and product presentation.

·Conduct seasonal trend hunting and inspiration research to inform future VM direction and maintain a forward-looking creative point of view.

·Travel to support the launch of key seasonal initiatives in flagship locations and ensure execution excellence.

·Analyze store performance, customer behavior, and product productivity to inform VM decisions and optimize commercial results.

·Ensure operational excellence through calendar management, budget oversight, and coordination with production partners and vendors.

·Partner with e-commerce teams to ensure cohesive visual expression across physical and digital environments.

·Lead, coach, and develop the VM team, fostering a culture of creativity, accountability, and continuous improvement.

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 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 View phone number on businessoffashion.com or View email address on businessoffashion.com

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Base Pay Range
$150,000.00-$200,000.00

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.