Job Description
Job Title: Sr Visual Retail Merchandising Designer
Contract Duration : 6 months
Location: Seattle, WA 98134 (hybrid - onsite 3 day per week and 2 days work from home)
Pay Rate: $32/hr - $38/hr on W2
Job Description
- This role delivers business value by applying creativity and the highest visual merchandising standards to develop and create wide range, brand-accretive visual merchandising executions and deliverables for multiple retail store types and assortments and helping establish consistent global merchandising standards.
- Portfolio is preferred, but not required, please showcase their digital marketing in the portfolio if including in submittal
- Visual communication design (transferrable skill)
- MUST be comfortable working with ambiguity
Daily Responsibilities:
- Light meetings with PM and team as needed
- Reviews
- Working with business partners and gathering feedback
- In design, working on schematics
- Collaborate as needed
- Presenting to cross functional business partners (up to director level)
- Focus on digital marketing
Technology requirements?:
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Smartsheet’s
• Proficient in Mac programs
• Understanding of Adobe Creative Suite, including programs like InDesign and Photoshop
Education :
• Degree preferred but not required as long as they have relevant exp
Years experience:
• 5+ years or relevant exp required
Required background and Skills :
• Mastery of visual design and styling skills
• Interprets current trends, competition, culture, and retail landscape with a keen eye, shaping aesthetics and details
• An understanding of integrated marketing and its various components
• A compelling portfolio of work with a range of creative projects
• Excellent presentation skills
• Proven strength in problem analysis and creative problem solving
• Great communication and collaboration skills
• Excellent time management skills and team-oriented with the ability to multi-task, prioritize and meet deadlines
• Ability to communicate and build effective working relationships with cross-functional teams and individuals
Nice-to-Haves:
• 5+ years experience developing high-impact, thoughtfully considered seasonal and core visual merchandising concepts and solutions for retail experiences and products
• 5+ years experience considering store layout, store type, assortment, fixturing, smallware, and signs to enhance the customer experience and positively influence buying behavior
• 5+ years experience advising business and marketing teams to build best possible product assortments and support signage that can consistently execute in store types
• Figma for presentation decks
• Corporate experience, worked in highly matrixed organizations
Top Candidate Skills & How Applied Years of Experience
1 Skill: InDesign 5+
2 Skill: Communication
Application: written, verbal, and presentation 5+
3 Skill: Attention to details
Application: Strong organizational skills 5+
Disqualifiers:
• Poor communication skills
• Missing must have skills
• Poorly formatted resume, typos