Beauty brand incubator building founder-led cosmetics, skincare and haircare lines
Kendo Brands develops and scales founder-led beauty brands, with an Adobe Creative Cloud, Capture One and Workfront stack pointing to heavy in-house creative production. Hiring is accelerating and skews toward sales and marketing, with European launches, Southeast Asia and India campaigns, and retail pains like underperforming stores and inventory risk, which points to a commercial push across new markets.
Notable leadership hires: Creative Director, Director Ecommerce
Kendo Brands is a beauty house that creates and manages founder brands, including KVD Beauty, Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin, Fenty Hair, Ole Henriksen Skincare and Lip Lab. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and also runs offices in Toronto, London, Paris and Singapore. Its products sell through retail and ecommerce channels in 27 countries. Kendo employs 501–1,000 people and hires across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Singapore.
Kendo Brands uses Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator), Adobe Workfront, Capture One, Asana, Shopify, Anaplan, Power BI and a WMS, among other tools.
Yes. Hiring is accelerating, and sales and marketing are the dominant functions. Open roles span the US, Canada, UK, France and Singapore, including Creative Director and Director Ecommerce positions.
Kendo Brands is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and also operates offices in Toronto, London, Paris and Singapore.
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