Global fashion and lifestyle brand with 5,000+ employees across retail and design
Kate Spade is a publicly traded fashion house operating 5,000–10,000 employees across design, retail, and operations. The hiring profile is heavily weighted toward sales roles (210 open), with the bulk at junior and senior levels, mirrored by active projects centered on repeat business, in-store performance, and sales culture — indicating a push to optimize conversion and customer lifetime value within existing store footprints rather than expand headcount.
Notable leadership hires: Marketing Director
Kate Spade New York designs and sells handbags, clothing, shoes, jewelry, home décor, and tech accessories across a global footprint. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in New York, the brand is part of Tapestry Inc.'s portfolio of lifestyle companies. The company operates a hybrid retail and e-commerce model, with retail operations concentrated in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Canada, Malaysia, and Taiwan. The product design workflow relies on Adobe Creative Suite and CAD, while point-of-sale, SAP, and iCIMS (HRIS) run core retail and operational systems.
Kate Spade uses AWS for cloud infrastructure, SAP for enterprise operations, iCIMS for HR, Google Analytics 4 for web analytics, Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) for design, CAD for product development, and Microsoft 365 (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams). Social and paid media span Meta, TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, and YouTube.
Current initiatives focus on repeat business programs, sales training, in-store performance (visual merchandising, assortment strategy, client outreach), inventory management, and seasonal trade execution. Projects align with improving store productivity and leveraging client book utilization.
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