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Role: Marketplace Experience (MPX) Designer

Team: Creative Studio

Scope: Individual Contributor, P3

Years of Experience: 5+ years

Location: Ventura, CA

As the Marketplace Experience Designer, you apply established 2D and 3D design practices to create thoughtful, customer-centered marketplace experiences-translating brand, campaign, and product storytelling into physical environments. You work proactively, balancing spatial design thinking, brand systems, and production realities to deliver clear, scalable, and well-executed solutions across a range of retail and wholesale contexts, including retail stores, wholesale environments, shop-in-shops, tradeshow booths, and event activations.

You operate with growing autonomy, developing customer-centered experiences across both 2D and 3D environments. You apply established brand systems and spatial design principles to solve moderately complex design challenges-often with limited precedent-by considering space, customer flow, campaign intent, and production constraints. You collaborate effectively across functions, communicate design intent with clarity, and contribute to strong alignment and successful execution.

What You'll Do

• Design and execute seasonal campaign experiences across retail and wholesale environments, including windows, in-store storytelling, and product education

• Translate brand and campaign concepts into clear, engaging physical experiences that guide customers through the space

• Create cohesive 2D and 3D design solutions, including signage, graphics, spatial layouts, and environmental storytelling elements

• Apply strong brand storytelling principles-bringing clarity to typography, layout, and visual hierarchy across all touchpoints

• Develop scalable toolkits, templates, and guidelines that enable consistent execution across regions, store formats, and partners

• Use a systems-thinking approach to ensure design solutions are adaptable, repeatable, and easy to implement

• Contribute to evergreen and always-on brand communication, maintaining consistency and clarity in-store

• Design for retail events, store openings, and community-led moments, including localized and bespoke storytelling

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners across Retail, Wholesale, Visual Merchandising, Marketing, Creative, and Production, as well as external vendors

• Ensure alignment between physical and digital experiences, contributing to a cohesive omnichannel ecosystem

• Contribute to the evolution of marketplace design systems, processes, and documentation (guides, playbooks, frameworks)

• Create production-ready files using Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, and partner with production teams to ensure quality, feasibility, and executional integrity

• Manage multiple projects of varying scope, balancing priorities, timelines, and quality

• Ensure all work reflects Patagonia's values, brand standards, and commitment to environmental and social responsibility

Who You Are

• A thoughtful, customer-centered designer who cares deeply about how physical environments shape experience and storytelling

• A strong collaborator who builds trust across teams and works effectively with cross-functional partners and external vendors

• A clear communicator who can articulate ideas, decisions, and tradeoffs in a way that brings others along

• A systems thinker who naturally sees patterns and creates consistency and scalability in your approach

• Comfortable working independently and navigating ambiguity, especially when there is limited precedent or direction

• Solutions-oriented and resourceful, using sound judgment and creative problem-solving to work through constraints

• Detail-oriented and organized, able to manage multiple priorities while maintaining quality and follow-through

• Open and receptive to feedback, contributing to a team environment grounded in shared ownership and continuous improvement

• Grounded in Patagonia's mission, bringing care and intention to work that reflects environmental and social responsibility

Experience You Bring

• 5+ years of professional design experience in retail, environmental, brand, or experiential design

• Advanced proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign)

• Working knowledge of 3D tools such as SketchUp or similar platforms

• Strong foundation in graphic design (2D), with applied understanding of spatial and 3D design principles

• Demonstrated experience designing for physical environments such as retail stores, events, or exhibitions

• Proven ability to think in systems and develop scalable toolkits, templates, and frameworks that support consistent execution

• Strong command of brand storytelling, including typography, layout, and visual hierarchy

• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and external production or fabrication partners

• Working knowledge of materials, fabrication, and production processes is a plus

• Solid project management skills, with experience balancing multiple projects and timelines

Hiring Range:$92,300 - $105,300 USD Annual

At Patagonia, pay ranges are assigned to a job based on the location specific market median of similar jobs according to 3rd party salary benchmark surveys. Individual pay within that range can vary for several reasons including skills/capabilities, experience, and available budget. The Hiring Range reflects where in the range we intend to hire for this role.

Benefits

Patagonia offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, retirement and leave of absence plans.Benefit plans may vary slightly depending on the nature of your employment.

Workplace Location Overview

This position is Hybrid, with a standard schedule of Tuesday - Thursday on-site and remote work on other days. Occasional additional office visits may be required for team events or critical meetings.

Employee Conduct
It is the responsibility of every employee to contribute to a positive, inclusive work environment through cooperative and professional interactions with co-workers, customers and vendors.

Equal Employment Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other factors prohibited by law.