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# Piercing Studio Nurse at Rowan

- **Company:** Rowan
- **Location:** Kansas City, MO
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/heyrowan/f2dc954f-159d-4cac-8b7a-d558b65a680c

## Job description

About This Role:

Rowan's Piercing Studio Nurse, reporting to the Studio Manager, is dedicated to providing a safe, clean, and joyful ear-piercing experience. As a Rowan Nurse you will leverage your highly respected nursing skills and expertise to perform piercings with the utmost care and precision. Nurses are our skin-saving, infection-fighting, and customer-calming superheroes – essential skills that make Rowan’s signature clinical ear piercing services a true delight. Your role is all about building trust and excitement, turning each piercing into a fun and memorable milestone!

What you’ll do:

Customer Service:

- Create magical and memorable customer experiences by combining top-notch clinical care with a celebratory atmosphere during each piercing session.
- Ensure customer's safety and comfort and smooth flow of customer care.
- Provide confident, clear, and professional communication with clients throughout their entire piercing experience.
- Create a comforting atmosphere for customers, easing their concerns to ensure a relaxed and confident piercing experience.
- Educate customers on aftercare, promoting Rowan's After Care to support healing and ensure their well-being.
- Conduct a thorough ear evaluation to find the perfect earring placement and offer personalized styling advice.
- Actively monitor the customer experience, quickly addressing and resolving any issues to maintain Rowan's clinical piercing standards.
- Maintain a sterile and aseptic environment at the nurse station and on the procedure tray, ensuring all surfaces, instruments, and supplies are clean and properly sanitized to prevent contamination and promote customer safety.
- Use your expert knowledge of skin care and infection control and prevention to provide professional and personalized piercing services.

Studio Support:

- Collaborate with the Studio Manager to keep operations running smoothly and foster a joyful, celebratory atmosphere.
- Flexibility to fill shifts as needed.
- May mentor and train new nurses to uphold Rowan's Clinical Piercing Standards, including shadowing piercing services and observing customer interactions.
- Stay attentive to anything that could impact the customer experience, and quickly report any issues to management while collaborating to resolve them.

Inventory and Supplies:

- Ensure all piercing stations, including the nurse cart, mayo stand, and nurse nook, are always stocked with the necessary supplies and ready for any customer needs.
- Ensure the safety and cleanliness of our services by sterilizing jewelry and needle piercing instruments.

Studio Operations:

- Follow state, federal, and CDC guidelines closely to ensure a sanitary and safe piercing experience.

Sales:

- Ensure high-quality performance to support key studio metrics, including revenue growth, efficiency in piercing services (e.g., piercings per hour), increasing average order value, and boosting sales.
- Educate customers on Rowan After Care, and the benefits of bringing home an extra pair of hypoallergenic, non-piercing jewelry to promote healing.

Reporting and Communication:

- Quickly address and escalate operational concerns, ensuring clear communication with management and team members to implement solutions efficiently.

What you bring to the table:

- Required Certifications: Active RN or LPN/LVN License.
- Professional and engaging customer care approach.
- Warm, friendly, team player with an entrepreneurial spirit.
- Excited to create celebratory, memorable experiences for our customers.
- Skilled in providing both technical and non-technical information to customers and community members.
- Interest in working in a retail environment with sales goals.
- Obsessive attention to detail.
- Availability to work a flexible schedule, including during peak times such as holidays and weekends.
- Open to all experience levels; newly licensed nurses are welcome. Additional training in pediatrics and/or ear piercing is a plus.
- Dedicated to delivering exceptional service and maintaining a safe, clean environment for every customer.

Nurse Benefits & Perks:

- Compensation: $24-49 per hour, consisting of $24 an hour base wage plus an estimated $25 per hour in tips once fully trained!
- While Piercing Nurses keep 100% of earned tips, tips are customer-provided, are not guaranteed and can vary by location.
- Ongoing training and career pathways to grow your nursing career at Rowan.
- Paid accrued Vacation and Sick Time for full-time employees.
- Medical/Dental/Vision Health Plans for full time employees.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Resources.
- 401k and Roth IRA Plans.
- Generous employee discounts on our amazing products and services!
- Team Member Referral Bonus plan for Studio positions.

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## About Rowan

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Rowan redefines ear piercing as a safe, celebratory, medically guided experience performed exclusively by licensed nurses using hypoallergenic jewelry.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Louisa Serene Schneider

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Luxury Goods & Jewelry / Health & Wellness (ear piercing services and hypoallergenic jewelry)
- **Target customers**: B2C – children, teenagers, and adults seeking safe, stylish ear piercings and nickel-free earrings
- **Mission or purpose**: “Piercing for All” – to offer a fun, celebratory, and safe piercing experience for everyone, with a strong emphasis on clinical safety and inclusivity.

## Products & Services
- **Ear Piercing Services**: Performed exclusively by licensed nurses using needle or hand-pressurized devices (no piercing guns). Includes aftercare solutions.
- **Hypoallergenic Jewelry**: Earrings made from 14K solid gold, gold vermeil, sterling silver, and gold plating – all nickel-free and designed for sensitive ears.
- **Clinical Training (Rowan Clinical Piercing Standard®)**: Proprietary curriculum delivered through the Ear Piercing Institute to ensure consistent, safe piercing protocols.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $29.3M (Seed $4M in 2019, Series A $5.3M in Feb 2021, Series B $20M in Oct 2021)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: VMG Partners (led Series B); Medical Advisory Board
- **Growth Signals**: 232 employees (+28.8% YoY); 76 active job postings (+145.2% YoY); expanding to 100+ cities nationwide; strong year-over-year headcount and hiring growth.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Clinical Safety**: All piercings performed by licensed nurses, not retail staff – a unique trust differentiator.
- **Proprietary Training**: Rowan Clinical Piercing Standard® ensures consistent, high-quality procedures across all studios.
- **Hypoallergenic Focus**: Premium, nickel-free jewelry reduces allergic reactions, appealing to customers with sensitive ears.
- **No Piercing Guns**: Use of needles or hand-pressurized devices reduces tissue trauma and infection risk.
- **Woman-Founded & Women-Led**: Strong leadership team with a values-driven culture.

## Strategic Focus
- **National Expansion**: Rapidly opening studios in new cities (currently hiring in New York, Boston, Chicago, and 100+ other locations).
- **Omnichannel Growth**: Combining physical studios with e-commerce for jewelry sales.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Scaling corporate and studio teams to support growth, with emphasis on licensed nurses, store managers, and corporate roles in operations, marketing, and supply chain.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values-driven, inclusive, celebratory, and safety-first. “Retail Reinvented” blending clinical precision with hospitality.
- **Work Environment**: Studio roles are on-site; corporate roles are likely based in New York HQ (hybrid/office policy not explicitly stated but typical for retail HQ).
- **Benefits**: Competitive pay + bonus, medical/dental/vision insurance, retirement planning, Employee Assistance Program, generous jewelry discounts, paid time off (full-time).
- **Training**: Comprehensive training provided for all roles – nurses receive proprietary clinical training; studio associates learn customer care, styling, and product knowledge.
- **Growth Opportunities**: Clear leadership pathways for nurses and managers; fast-growing company offers upward mobility.

## Sources
1. [LinkedIn – Rowan Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hey-rowan)
2. [Rowan Careers Page](https://heyrowan.com/pages/careers-at-rowan)
3. [Lever Careers Page – Rowan](https://jobs.lever.co/heyrowan)
4. [The Org – Rowan](https://theorg.com/org/heyrowan)

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