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Senior Private Client Advisor — Vintage Luxury Fashion
Location: Los Angeles, remote with a local presence
Compensation: Competitive base uncapped commission. Health, dental, and vision.
Intended for: Senior Private Client professionals with an existing, aligned client book.
About Us
We are a Los Angeles–based archival and vintage luxury fashion dealer. We operate less like a traditional resale store and more like a hybrid of a private archive, editorial platform, and relationship-driven luxury sales agency. Our clientele is sophisticated and taste-driven. We are expanding our Private Client function to meet sustained demand.
About the Role
We are hiring a Senior Private Client Advisor to lead our most important client relationships. This is a discreet, long-cycle, relationship-led role built for an experienced professional who understands trust, taste, and long-term cultivation at a high price point.
The ideal hire has built their career inside the Private Client or VIP Relations function of a luxury multi-brand e-commerce retailer - an environment where you've been accountable for your own number, known your clients' closets intimately, and routinely closed five-figure transactions. You're ready to trade scale for depth: a focused book, direct ownership, and an environment where your judgment and relationships genuinely move the business.
What You'll Do
- Own private client relationships end-to-end - from initial inquiry through post-sale cultivation
- Sell high-AOV vintage designer pieces with confidence, discretion, and pricing integrity
- Activate your existing client book and grow it in step with our positioning and inventory
- Manage select inherited VIPs and qualified inbound leads
- Navigate longer sales cycles with patience, judgment, and thoughtful follow-up
- Facilitate private appointments, in-home fittings, trunk shows, and bespoke sourcing
- Build strategic relationships with stylists, collectors, and aligned luxury partners
- Uphold clear standards around pulls, holds, pricing, and client exceptions
- Represent our philosophy and standards consistently as a brand ambassador
- Build a referral pipeline through stylists, publicists, private wardrobe managers, and luxury concierge networks
- Partner with leadership on market-building strategy, identifying new geographies, client segments, and cultural touchpoints worth cultivating
- Surface sourcing opportunities from your network, collectors, estates, and private sellers whose archives align with our direction
Who You Are
- 3 years in a Senior Private Client, VIP Relations, or equivalent role at a luxury multi-brand e-commerce retailer, maison, or comparable private sales environment
- Experienced selling in a clienteling model rather than a sales floor environment
- Energized by the opportunity to help shape a Private Client department’s process, standards, team, and culture
- An active, engaged client book aligned with archival, designer-driven taste. clients who collect Tom Ford–era Gucci, Galliano-era Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, and pieces of similar weight (not just a gown-and-gala book)
- Demonstrated history of closing individual transactions at $10,000 through relationship-based selling
- Comfortable with marketing, operations, and finance to deliver a bespoke client experience
- Comfort operating independently and resourcefully
- Exceptional taste, emotional intelligence, discretion, and written craft
- Collaborative, resourceful, and willing to wear many hats; the kind of person who takes ownership of the outcome, not just the task
- Direct and candid
What You'll Find Here
- Competitive base salary and uncapped commission with meaningful upside
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Real autonomy over your book and your day
- Individual impact is visible and compounds
- Room for the role to grow alongside the business, including the evolution of our Private Client function and Los Angeles presence
- A company that values taste, craft, and long-term thinking over churn