Senior Designer- Retail [AQ-12664

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Aquent Studios is a global creative studio that delivers scale, speed and efficiency to the world’s most recognized brands. We create the work that matters the most to them—work that has a real impact on their business. As an Aquent Studio team member, you’ll have the opportunity to engage with the largest and most influential companies in the world, solving design challenges and extending their brands across tactic types and platforms, including digital design, UI/UX, video, motion, content, print design, web development, and more.

If you want to do work that matters in a collaborative setting that values ingenuity and personal growth, you have found the right place!

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $185-200K However, final compensation level will be determined based on experience and scope alignment