Senior Designer- Retail

Aquent is partnering with a leading technology company renowned for its innovative approach to connecting users with groundbreaking solutions. This company is at the forefront of demonstrating how technology can solve the world's problems, from the everyday to the epic, by changing the game, redefining the medium, and making the user the priority.

Step into a pivotal role where your design expertise will directly shape immersive physical experiences, influencing how millions interact with cutting-edge technology. As a key contributor, you will drive the visual narrative of dynamic retail environments, translating strategic visions into tangible, impactful spaces. This role offers a unique opportunity to lead strategic conceptualization, holistic visual expression, and design execution for high-impact physical environments and retail spaces, ensuring a seamless brand experience across all touchpoints.

You will be instrumental in orchestrating complex design frameworks, maintaining pristine brand stewardship across diverse physical footprints, and mentoring junior design talent. This position demands high-fidelity production oversight from ideation to final physical proofing, allowing you to make a significant impact on how consumers experience innovative products.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Creative Vision: Drive overarching design concepts, vision decks, and comprehensive mood boards for large-scale retail initiatives, ensuring alignment with global brand directives.
• Systemic Design & Art Direction: Establish robust, scalable 2D design systems, typographic guidelines, and color frameworks that seamlessly translate across varied physical dimensions and architectural constraints.
• High-Impact VM & Window Campaigns: Oversee the visual strategy and creative direction for flagship window displays and key visual merchandising (VM) touchpoints, balancing storytelling with commercial impact.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner directly with Spatial Designers, Experience Strategists, and Production Leads to ensure a unified physical-to-digital customer journey within the retail footprint.
• Production & Quality Oversight: Direct the print production and proofing process for complex materials, setting engineering and color standards to ensure flawless physical execution.
• Stakeholder Management: Confidently present design strategies and creative solutions to senior leadership and key regional stakeholders to secure buy-in.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional design experience, with a strong focus on retail, environmental, experiential, or physical space design.
• A portfolio demonstrating retail environments, visual merchandising, window displays, branded physical experiences, or similar work.
• Strong 2D graphic design and visual systems expertise.
• Experience developing creative concepts and providing art direction.
• Understanding of how graphic design translates to 3D/physical environments and architectural constraints.
• Hands-on experience with print production, fabrication, proofing, color management, and physical execution.
• Strong presentation and communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional creative, production, spatial, and marketing teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing for a global consumer or technology brand.
• Experience with large-scale or flagship retail programs.
• Experience working with external production partners and fabricators.
• Experience mentoring or providing creative direction to other designers.

About Aquent Talent

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits! Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

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