Private Salon Stylist

Private Salon Stylist, 57th Street Flagship Boutique

At CHANEL, we are focused on creating an inclusive culture that nurtures personal growth, contributing to collective progress. We believe the uniqueness of each individual increases the diversity, complementarity, and effectiveness of our teams. We strongly encourage your application, as we value the perspective, experience, and potential you could bring to CHANEL. 

About the role: 

CHANEL 57th Street Flagship Boutique is seeking a Private Salon Stylist with exceptional styling expertise to lead and host elevated client appointments in our Private Salon. The ideal candidate will have a discerning eye for fashion, a passion for creativity, and the ability to inspire both clients and team members through impeccable taste and personalized service. As the leader of the Private Salon experience, you will curate unforgettable moments, partner with Fashion Advisors to nurture lasting client relationships, and set the highest standards of excellence in every interaction.

What Impact You Can Create at CHANEL: 

• Delivering exceptional styling and personalized service by understanding each client’s unique needs and offering tailored product suggestions, ensuring every appointment reflects the highest standards of CHANEL excellence.
• Host and provide bespoke experiences exclusively for Top-tier, High Net-Worth and other select client profiles, ensuring the highest level of CHANEL service and attention.
• Serve as a Fashion Curator for the NY Area connecting across BTQs within the market to share inspiration, elevate the client experience, and foster a unified vision of CHANEL style.
• Support the presentation and styling of CHANEL collections by embodying and interpreting the creative vision, ensuring each collection resonates with clients. 
• Foster a collaborative environment by working closely with BTQ teams to support client styling needs, share insights and feedback, and collectively achieve boutique objectives, strengthening lasting client relationships and driving overall success.
• Partner with the Boutique Leadership team to offer meaningful feedback on the boutique product assortment, while continuing strategic collaboration with VM, Merchandising, VIC, Fashion Expertise, and Events teams.

You Are Energized By: 

• Bringing energy and creativity to Private Salon appointments, ensuring each styling experience feels elevated and uniquely personal.
• Inspiring others by demonstrating a deep understanding of fashion, trends, and the CHANEL Allure.
• Thrive in a high-touch, appointment-driven environment where the exceptional service, warm hospitality and attention to detail are paramount – consistently aiming to surprise and delight clients at every interaction.
• Building collaborative partnerships and relationships in a team-focused environment.

What You Will Bring to The Team: 

• Inspire clients and colleagues through a strong personal sense of fashion, style, and creativity, setting the standard for CHANEL elegance and innovation
• Act as a trusted partner: host styling appointments, ensure an elevated and personalized experience stimulating cross-category sales
• Support Fashion Advisors to foster relationships with VIC/Elite and High Net Worth Clients
• Embodies a genuine commitment to hospitality and client service at the heart of all interactions.
• Support Retail teams by providing styling advice, collaborating with key stakeholders on events, projects and product launches
• Partnership with Fashion Advisors to strengthen their styling expertise: support client appointments and provide styling coaching support
• Excellent communication skills 
• Passion for the House of CHANEL, its history, product offerings, and commitment to social and cultural initiatives

Compensation: 

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $92,400 through $190,000. Base salary is one component of the total compensation for this position. Other forms of variable pay [may/will] be offered for this position. Other components [may/will] include bonus potential, benefits, and/or perks. 

Position Logistics:  

• Minimum 10 years of related experience  

• Minimum High School Diploma 

• Able to lift 15 lbs.   

• Must have flexible schedule with the ability to work late nights, weekends, and some holidays   

Benefits and Perks: 

• Wellbeing resources include dedicated paid time off for wellbeing (Please select appropriate time off for your role: 2-week August Office Closure OR Wellbeing Days in Retail) and a Wellbeing fund  

• Family and care giving benefits (inclusive of parental leave, fertility support, MilkStork, and Care.com Membership) 

• Generous paid time off policies to include vacation, holiday, sick and volunteer days  

• 401K and other incentives  

• Robust healthcare offerings; medical, dental, vision, MDLIVE (virtual care), One Medical, Flexible Spending Accounts (Health Care & Dependent Care), Health Savings Account and Employee Assistance Program 

• Life insurance, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Health Advocate, International Business Travel Accident & Medical, and Commuter Transit & Parking 

ONLY FOR INTERNAL POSTING AS NEEDED:  

• This role is considered critical in terms of skills, capabilities and preparedness needed. Hence, this is a role that has been discussed throughout regular cycles of people development and succession planning discussions. As a result, a few candidates are likely in discussions and advancing through the recruitment process. However, we still encourage your interest and application as we commit to a fair, objective, and developmental process for all.  

Additional Information: 

Chanel is a private company whose values are grounded in creating the conditions for people to perform at their best and feel fulfilled and confident in their work. We offer a unique work environment where individuals are encouraged to better understand the brand, the business, and motivations, so that together we can unlock the possibilities of growth. This is reflected in: 

Diversity and Inclusion: 

• At CHANEL, we are intentional in promoting Diversity & Inclusion. We foster respect, empathy and dignity for all.  We believe strongly that the diversity of our people across the full spectrum of human differences is essential to our organisation and the connections we have with each other and our clients.  

• We offer Employee Resource Groups in the US that are voluntary, open to all, employee-led groups formed around a shared identity or lived experience, whose aim is to foster a diverse, inclusive, and equitable community aligned with the values and missions of the communities they support. 

Chanel Community: 

• CHANEL Community empowers our employees to channel their passions, talents and sense of purpose to contribute to and learn from our communities. 

• Employees are encouraged to take time off annually to volunteer through CHANEL Community. CHANEL also matches employee donations to select charitable organizations. 

Sustainability: 

• CHANEL Mission 1.5° is our climate action plan. It is focused on transforming the business in line with the ambitions of the Paris Agreement on climate change to limit the average global mean temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. 

• Employees are encouraged to contribute to our US Sustainability efforts at the corporate level and within the divisions, through organized taskforces and initiatives. 

Arts and Culture: 

• We are committed to extending our legacy of cultural engagement. Global support includes the CHANEL Culture Fund, which supports a select group of leading art culture institutions across the globe, and the CHANEL Next Prize for the next generation of creative talent.  US support currently includes Annual sponsorship of the MoMA film program, Tribeca Film Festival programs and Through Her Lens, Support of the Academy Gold Fellowship for Women and Sponsorship of the BAAND Together Dance Festival at Lincoln Center. 

Fondation Chanel: 

• Since 2011, Fondation CHANEL’s mission is for women and girls to be free to shape their own destiny.  Through multi-year partnerships with financial and technical support, Fondation CHANEL is committed to improving the safety and autonomy of women and adolescent girls around the world, impacting over a million women and girls in its first 10 years.     

• For more information, please navigate to the Fondation Chanel website here   

Career and Leadership Development:  

• We have dedicated in-house teams focused on supporting the onboarding of employees, developing leadership skills via custom programs like Imagine Chanel People, Heart of Leadership and group and individual coaching, and blended online and live classes offered on our Bloom platform and by skilled trainers, such as Shape Your Career, to develop career building skills. 

*Chanel, Inc. benefits and perks are dependent on eligibility and subject to modification by Chanel at any time.