Assistant Manager/Hair Stylist
The role
A step up from the standard Senior Stylist role. Alongside the styling work, you’d take on some salon management responsibility — running the floor on quieter days, coordinating with the junior team, helping us think through how the salon operates.
The styling side is the same: cutting and colouring across the full range, working with a consistent client list, no clients-from-scratch problem.
The management side is hands-on, not corporate. We’re a small independent salon — there’s no “Regional Operations Manager” hierarchy here. You’d work closely with the salon owner on decisions about scheduling, team development, and how things should run.
Who we’re looking for
- Senior-level technical skill. All the cutting and colour competence of a standard senior, plus the confidence to lead from the front.
- Leadership in practice, not in title. If you’ve assistant-managed somewhere bigger and got tired of admin without authority, this is the opposite: real influence on how the salon operates, small enough team that you can see the impact.
- Good with junior team members. Patience, mentoring instinct, ability to give feedback that helps people improve rather than crushes them.
- Reliable and steady. The role only works if you can be the dependable presence on the floor. Not a fit for someone who treats management as a stepping stone.
What you’ll get
- £18+ per hour. Depending on experience and the scope of management responsibility you take on.
- Real influence over how the salon runs. No bureaucracy, no quarterly reviews you have to write. Decisions are made on the floor.
- Sundays and Mondays off. The salon is closed both days. Across the board.
- A full column from day one. The senior stylist side of the role is fully booked.
- Joico throughout the salon. Professional products you can use, recommend, and sell.
- Direct relationship with the salon owner. No corporate management chain — you’d report directly to the owner.
What happens when you message.
No application black hole, no ghosting. Here's the actual process, start to finish.
WhatsApp, email or pop in. You'll hear back the same day — usually within the hour.
A call or a coffee with Mike — what you're looking for, what we need, whether it fits.
Come and see the salon. For some roles we'll arrange a trade test — but if your work already speaks for itself, we won't make you jump through hoops.
Days, not weeks — whichever way it goes, you'll hear from us. Nobody's left hanging.
Who you'd work beside.
35+ years in cutting, colouring, styling and perming, much of it in London. Specialisms in curly haircuts, highlights and perms.
Our colour go-to — bespoke blondes, highlights and seamless balayage. A self-described perfectionist, and quietly one to pick the brains of.
35+ years and our creative specialist — bold restyles, vivid colour, perms, and confident ladies' and gents' cutting.
Standout highlights and balayage, curly cuts and longer styles — with people skills well beyond her years.
I opened Wisteria Avenue in 2018 because I believed a salon could be run differently — busy enough to keep your column full, small enough that nobody gets lost in politics. Seven years, two floors and 650-odd five-star reviews later, that's still the whole idea.
If you're thinking about applying, here's my promise: it's me you'll be speaking with, from first hello to final answer. If it's not the right fit, I'll tell you kindly and quickly. If it is, you'll know within days.
Mike · Owner, Wisteria Avenue
Whichever role — the deal is the same.
Full details on the careers page →The same two days off every week — no rota juggling.
We turn clients away weekly — you pick up overflow.
No chair rental. Full or part-time — days that suit.
Clients name their stylist in our reviews, weekly.
Join the good one.
No forms, no cover letters, no waiting weeks. Pick whichever route suits you — we reply the same day.
