Senior Retail Experience Designer

Location: Beaverton, OR
Contract length: ~5 months
Schedule: Hybrid in Beaverton, OR (WFH Fridays)
Pay: $61-66.90/hr, DOE

The Planet Group is looking for a Senior Retail Experience Designer to join our well-known retail brand on a roughly 5-month contract! This role is 40 hours per week and will be hybrid in Beaverton, OR, working remotely on Fridays.

Senior Retail Experience Designer Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10+ years of progressive, technically sophisticated design experience in architectural, experiential or brand design and a demonstrated ability to apply these skills in ways that elevate brand excellence
• Bachelor's degree or higher in architecture, industrial, or environmental design, or related field, or equivalent combination of education, experience, or training
• Showed strength in managing a design project or studio in the delivery of progressively complex projects of scale, budget, and size
• Proven track record of good judgment and ability to contribute meaningfully to the determination of policy and strategy
• Proven track record of motivating teams, managing ambiguity, and effectively collaborating in decision-making
• Tried expert in applying and performing design skills, including concepting, drawing/sketching, architecture, ideation, color theory, materials, texture, and spatial design in scale, visual presentation development and space planning layouts
• Knowledge of and sensitivity to current trends in color, design, art, photography and experience design and their application to the athletic industry
• Expert oral and written communication and presentations skills, including meeting facilitation and presentations to senior management
• Ability to work cooperatively across streams and territories to share ideas and develop effective responses
• Proven ability to work in a constantly evolving, high-growth environment
• Positivity and eagerness to do great work in a team environment
• Ability to manage multiple and competing work priorities, demands and changes
• Demonstrated expertise using computer design applications including Keynote, Miro, SketchUp, Rhino, Grasshopper, V-Ray, AR/VR and Adobe Creative Suite
• Strategic, collaborative and creative team leader
• Proven track record of innovative creation of store architecture and environment and emerging technology to build impactful stores, spaces, consumer engagement and interaction
• Strong ability to work upstream, effectively elevate strategic concerns, assert influence in final outcomes

Senior Retail Experience Designer Description:

• Support and develop experience creative direction for the client's Global Direct retail ecosystem, with online to offline connection
• Develop impactful / scalable creative solutions for immersive retail experiences and how these manifest as worlds
• Work across several design subject areas such as Brand Design, Environmental Design, Engagement Design and store journeys with ease
• Ideate creative concepts, illustrate ideas and be hands on as you lead projects to completion
• Work across multiple projects, partnering closely with the Global Brand Design Architecture and Storytelling studio team and agency partners to deliver highly innovative and immersive concepts and executions
• Deliver comprehensive store design creative concepts, stay tapped into the pulse of future design trends and apply this thinking to your work, growing the possibilities of immersive retail environments and experiences
• Help push the design team into a new era of design thinking, with a vision to elevate the immersive retail environments and experiences our studio crafts
• Support and partner with Global Retail Sr Creative Director to lead retail experience creative direction, design direction, and design continuity
• Lead a design process of clear ideation
• Focus on strategy and exploration of architecture, environments, materiality and use of the environment
• Ensure project goals and priorities align with the retail store, brand and business strategies (art and science)
• Encourage a studio that is constantly seeking new and innovative ways to design consumer experiences through architecture, materials, fixture, environment, experience and 3d mediums
• Direct the development of presentation materials that effectively communicate creative direction and design concepts to all levels of leadership and partners
• Collaborate with peers, design counterparts, internal partners (Store, development, Brand, Retail Brand, Brand Creative, Digital, etc.) and external partners to ensure feasibility of designs and functional needs are met
• Actively gain knowledge and experience regarding the client's design ethos, the matrix, products and processes
• Drive education and inspiration, sharing knowledge and exposure to current and future trends influencing the innovation of consumer experiences and technology
• Foster innovative thinking, collaboration, and teamwork
• Lead design processes to ensure results, timelines and budgets are met
• Travel 10 % of the time