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Status: 4-Month Contract (possibly extended)

Job Title: Retail Experience Designer

Location: Hybrid in Beaverton, OR

Salary: $66.90/hr

About the company:

We do more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries, and push out the edges of what can be. Our company looks for people who can grow, think, dream, and create. Our culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders, and visionaries. We are about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving environment.

We are a technology company. From our flagship website and five-star mobile apps to developing products, managing big data, and providing leading-edge engineering and systems support, our teams exist to revolutionize the future at the confluence of tech and sport. We invest in and develop advances in technology and employ the most creative people in the world, and then give them the support to constantly innovate, iterate, and serve consumers more directly and personally. Our teams are innovative, diverse, multidisciplinary, and collaborative, taking technology into the future and bringing the world with us.

Sr. Retail Experience Designer:

Our client is seeking a Sr. Retail Experience Designer to create immersive, consumer-focused retail environments that bring brand stories to life through innovative spatial design, fixtures, displays, and digital experiences. This role partners with cross-functional creative, architecture, and retail teams to develop scalable concepts from ideation through execution while balancing creative excellence, business objectives, timelines, and budgets. The ideal candidate is a strategic design leader with deep experience shaping retail environments, managing complex design initiatives, and translating bold creative vision into impactful physical experiences.

This role is a hybrid model in Beaverton, Oregon.

Sr. Retail Experience Designer Responsibilities:

• Lead the creative development and execution of innovative retail environments, fixtures, displays, and immersive consumer experiences from concept through final delivery.
• Partner closely with creative leadership, architecture, storytelling, and cross-functional retail teams to ensure design solutions align with brand objectives and business strategies.
• Guide multiple concurrent design projects while maintaining creative integrity, project schedules, budgets, and overall quality standards.
• Develop compelling design concepts, presentation materials, sketches, renderings, and visual storytelling assets that effectively communicate creative direction to stakeholders and leadership.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to ensure design concepts are both innovative and technically feasible for implementation.
• Drive exploration of new materials, spatial design approaches, emerging technologies, and evolving retail trends to enhance consumer engagement.
• Contribute strategic thinking that influences project direction, elevates design quality, and supports long-term retail innovation initiatives.
• Foster a collaborative studio environment by sharing industry insights, mentoring peers, and encouraging creative problem-solving across project teams.
• Balance multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment while adapting to changing business needs and project requirements.
• Travel occasionally to support project development, installations, or collaborative planning sessions as needed.

Sr. Retail Experience Designer Qualifications:

• 10+ years of progressive experience in architectural, experiential, environmental, or brand design with a strong portfolio demonstrating innovative retail environments and consumer experiences.
• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Industrial Design, Environmental Design, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
• Proven experience leading complex design projects involving large budgets, multiple stakeholders, and high-profile retail initiatives.
• Strong background designing retail environments, branded spaces, store concepts, or experiential programs within the retail industry.
• Advanced proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, including Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign, as well as Keynote.
• Demonstrated expertise in concept development, sketching, spatial planning, material selection, presentation design, and environmental storytelling.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and executive stakeholders.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, prioritize competing deadlines, and successfully lead multiple projects in a fast-paced creative environment.
• Experience collaborating across multidisciplinary teams including architecture, creative, marketing, digital, and external agency partners.
• Experience with Nike or another leading global consumer brand is highly preferred but not required.
• Experience with After Effects, Premiere Pro, Miro, Figma, SketchUp, Unreal Engine, or other visualization and collaboration tools is preferred.
• Portfolio showcasing relevant retail, experiential, or environmental design work is required.