Jobs at The Independents

Supports a fashion PR agency by assisting with press outreach, client communications, sample trafficking, showroom organization, editorial and VIP requests, event execution, media monitoring, reporting, research, and administrative coordination. The role works with New York and Paris teams and requires strong organization, writing, communication, fashion-industry knowledge, and proficiency in Microsoft Office. Launchmetrics knowledge, sample-management experience, and French skills are preferred.

Produces luxury events, exhibitions, activations, and brand experiences from concept through completion. Responsibilities include managing schedules, budgets, vendors, venues, technical production, client communications, teams, risk, procurement, and on-site execution. The Producer leads small- to medium-scale projects, supports larger productions, coordinates multidisciplinary partners, maintains financial records, and ensures high-quality delivery. The role requires flexibility for travel, evenings, weekends, outdoor work, and extended on-site periods.

Leads strategic communications and day-to-day management for fashion, lifestyle, and culture-led client accounts. Develops communications strategies, manages senior client and media relationships, oversees fashion show logistics, evaluates campaign impact, supports new business, and identifies commercial growth opportunities. The role also leads, mentors, and develops account teams while representing the agency across the fashion and cultural industries.

Coordinates fashion communications accounts by creating press releases, media mailers, and client copy; pitching stories; managing showroom appointments and sample trafficking; overseeing assistants and interns; tracking media coverage and client assets; preparing meeting materials; conducting competitor analysis; and supporting client communications. The role requires strong fashion and media knowledge, press relationships, writing, organization, prioritization, and proficiency with Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Build Lefty’s QA function from the ground up by defining testing strategy, functional and UAT plans, release checklists, and automated coverage. Develop E2E, integration, API, and gRPC tests; integrate them into CI/CD release gates; mentor engineers on testability and unit coverage; and coordinate quality practices across multiple engineering squads. The role prioritizes high-risk user flows, exploratory testing, clear defect reporting, and proactive communication of release risks.

Own Lefty’s social media presence by developing strategy, creating platform-specific content, managing communities, collaborating with influencers, tracking performance, running campaigns, and optimizing paid social advertising. The role requires strong awareness of internet culture, influencer marketing, emerging platforms, analytics, and content creation.

Supports the Founder and Creative Director with scheduling, correspondence, documents, expenses, meetings, travel logistics, project and event coordination, content planning, social media engagement, press research, and PR collaboration. The role requires strong organization, autonomy, discretion, editorial judgment, and interest in food, fashion, design, and luxury within an international creative environment.

Provides day-to-day HR administration support, including onboarding, employee records, recruitment administration, payroll and learning system updates, absence tracking, HR documentation, organizational charts, and employee inquiries. The role also supports HR projects, process improvements, and people initiatives while maintaining confidentiality, accuracy, and effective communication in a fast-paced environment.

Supports day-to-day accounting across multiple UK entities, including supplier invoices, accounts payable and receivable, customer billing, bank and intercompany reconciliations, expenses, credit card transactions, project codes, and month-end close activities. Maintains accurate financial records, prepares Excel files, responds to employee expense queries, and assists the Finance Manager and CFO with general finance administration.

Manage editorial and commercial photo and video productions from pre-production through delivery. Responsibilities include preparing budgets and schedules, coordinating crews, freelancers, suppliers, locations, equipment, transport, travel, and accommodation, overseeing shoots and post-production, tracking costs, reconciling budgets, and coordinating invoices. The role requires strong organization, communication, problem-solving, and multitasking skills, with occasional travel within Europe.

Leads creative strategy and concept development across campaigns, content, experiences, programming, and new business pitches for fashion, beauty, lifestyle, hospitality, and FMCG clients. Translates cultural insights into original ideas, directs creative quality, presents recommendations to clients, identifies talent and partners, supports commercial proposals, coordinates workflows, and mentors team members. The role requires strong conceptual judgment, cultural fluency, presentation skills, commercial awareness, and experience managing creative teams and external collaborators.

Lead the Shanghai studio’s creative vision across fashion shows, scenography, spatial design, exhibitions, brand experiences, and luxury events. Develop concepts, narratives, presentations, and spatial experiences from initial idea through execution; present to senior clients and brand leaders; mentor a multidisciplinary team; and collaborate with global creative leads and studio management to align creative standards across international markets.

Lead strategic PR programs for art, design, culture, hospitality, and luxury lifestyle clients. Advise senior clients, secure high-impact media coverage, oversee campaigns and experiential activations, cultivate industry relationships, mentor account teams, contribute to new business, and measure campaign impact against commercial objectives.

Direct fashion communications and public relations strategy for luxury clients. Lead PR campaigns, media and influencer relationships, fashion events, internal and external communications, client management, budgets, team mentorship, industry monitoring, and new business development. Develop pitches, represent the agency at industry events, and ensure cohesive brand messaging across channels.

Leads client communications strategy for design, lifestyle, hospitality, art, and cultural brands. Serves as a day-to-day client advisor, develops media narratives and outreach, manages editor and cultural relationships, oversees launches and experiential events, supports junior team members, and evaluates campaign performance through qualitative and quantitative reporting.

Provide HR and administrative support: assist recruitment (job postings, CV screening, interview scheduling), support campus recruitment, maintain employee records, prepare offers and onboarding materials, manage entry and resignation procedures, and perform other manager-assigned HR/admin tasks.

Support PR team with sample management and trafficking; track press and competitor coverage; draft and edit press materials and reports; provide event support; attend meetings and take notes. Must be bilingual in Chinese and English and available 4-5 days/week for at least three months.

Lead inbound business development and manage RFP intake, qualifying opportunities, coordinating proposals with design and production, and maintaining pipeline. Provide strategic production guidance on select projects, support vendor coordination and procurement, develop pitch materials and budgets, and ensure smooth handoffs from proposal to execution.

Lead rollout of digital transformation adoption: design and deliver trainings and communications, build and maintain adoption toolkits, run an AI ambassador network, engage users directly, track adoption and barriers, coordinate user requests and escalations, and support executive reporting across agencies and internal stakeholders.

Lead and grow a flagship global account, manage senior client relationships, oversee integrated social, ATL and experiential campaigns, drive revenue growth and margin control, mentor four Account Leads, and implement operational processes to scale the agency.