About Westman Atelier
A new standard of clean luxury. Founded by world-renowned editorial makeup artist Gucci Westman, Westman Atelier is a curated edit of skin-loving, performance-first makeup that is always effortless, never overdone. A mother, makeup artist, and champion of holistic living, Gucci believes passionately that ‘luxury’, ‘efficacy’ and ‘clean’ can be synonymous with exceptional makeup.
- A skincare approach to high performance make-up formulated with clean ingredients and no-compromise integrity
- Balancing perfect shades and buttery textures that melt into the skin with plant-based actives and cutting-edge science
About Our Founder
Gucci Westman has more than 20 years of professional experience as a major editorial makeup artist, contributing to publications like Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. Gucci is known for creating dewy, supernaturally glowy looks and her highly coveted “second-skin approach” to makeup, resulting in naturally beautiful, radiantly amplified skin.
Position Summary
Westman Atelier is currently hiring a Freelance Makeup Artist/Sales Role based in NYC to support Nordstrom NYC exclusively (candidates cannot work in other retail locations or for other brands). Strong candidates will demonstrate excellent customer service skills, in-depth product knowledge, and the ability to consistently meet and exceed the brand's service and sales goals. We're seeking someone with an entrepreneurial, adaptable spirit and a passion for clean, sustainable beauty - someone who can represent Westman Atelier with integrity and enthusiasm across customer interactions, store and brand leadership, and in-store sales teams.
Position Details
This Position will be 40 hrs per week (5 days), and be set up as a contingent worker at Nordstrom (with the ability to ring sales on register and capture client information, but not earn commission on sales).
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for achieving daily sales goals along with supporting goals at vendor & retailer events
- Provide exceptional client experience with makeup services. Use your exceptional people and conversational skills to stop and engage customers and introduce them to Westman Atelier.
- Educate on brand product knowledge and assist customers with product selection
- Create brand awareness through education, product demonstration and application with clients and store teams
- Stay up to date on products and education
- Practice proper hygiene guidelines when demonstrating products on clients
- Maintain cleanliness of counter/gondola, tools, and tester units/testers
- Follow brand and retailer image guidelines at all times
- Assist with maintaining the required inventory practices while in-store
- Link sell to help grow Items Per Transaction and Average Basket Value.
- Keep up to date with competitor activities and missed opportunities, communicating with manager and proactively create strategies, in collaboration with the manager, to create a continuous growth of the brand.
- Drive animation and events on counter.
- Deliver excellence in execution of the Westman Atelier service standards.
- Attend and actively participate in training meetings, virtual or at-counter, as provided by the Sales and Education Team.
- Actively participate in and complete online learning
- Ensure the counter maintains excellent VM standards and is regularly cleaned and restocked.
Requirements:
- Ability to work retail hours including days, nights, weekends and special events
- Makeup artist certification or 1+ year previous experience in cosmetic retail sales
- Familiar with beauty retail environments (Nordstrom experience preferred)
- Passion for clean luxury beauty
Top Skills
What We Do
Founded in 2018 by professional makeup artist Gucci Westman. For Westman, there are three vital signs of modern beauty: luxury, efficacy, and clean, consciously-crafted ingredients. For her first makeup line, she combines supremely buttery, rich textures with the best plant-based active ingredients. The ultimate naturally beautiful complexion — now available to everyone.
We are creating a new standard in luxury that we like to call consciously crafted beauty. Consciously crafted beauty means a transparent and thoughtful approach to innovation that recognizes modern needs, balancing ethical beauty standards with science, technology and product performance. It means we are always evolving and learning. And it means we are passionately committed to products formulated with integrity.
We believe makeup should do more than enhance — it should calm, nourish and balance. Westman Atelier ingredients are thoroughly and thoughtfully curated by both artist and chemist so you can enjoy skin-benefiting, non-toxic makeup that performs at the highest possible standard.
Our commitment is to constantly review, research and reassess our ingredients as fresh information comes to light — in the meantime, we’ll always be completely transparent about our formulations, which meet the European Union’s rigorous standards for clean beauty. And we promise never to use, parabens, PEGs, phthalates and many other harmful chemicals. Feel good about your skin from the inside out.
