Work Type: Contract 6 months
Vacancy: Existing Vacancy
Hybrid: Flexible
Location: Vancouver, BC
Pay Range: $41.00 - $43.75 per hour
JOB DESCRIPTION
Insight Global is looking for a Retail Brand Creative Designer.
- Partner closely with Store Design, Construction, and cross-functional teams to bring retail brand concepts to life from initial brief through production and installation.
- Partner with Store Designers from the beginning of new stores, renovations, and other retail projects.
- Review project briefs, community insights, brand priorities, budgets, and physical spaces to determine the creative direction.
- Develop mood boards, conceptual directions, artwork, graphics, and storytelling for the overall store experience.
- Design a mix of:
- Custom artwork and environmental graphics
- Evergreen and city-specific artwork
- Floor inlays and semi-custom brand elements
- Barricades and large-format graphics
- Pop-ups and experiential brand moments
- Create environmental graphics, custom artwork, and experiential brand moments that tell a compelling story within the physical space.
- Bring creative concepts to leadership through decks and presentations, clearly explaining the story and rationale behind the creative direction.
- Incorporate feedback and refine concepts throughout the approval process.
- Partner closely with Store Design, Construction, Project Management, artists, agencies, and vendors to determine how concepts will work within the physical environment.
- Art direct and curate external artists when specialized artwork is required.
- Balance creative vision and brand standards with budget, constructability, and production feasibility.
- Stay involved through vendor workshops, production, and installation to ensure the final execution maintains the original design intent.
REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- 5+ years of retail brand creative and/or graphic design experience.
- Experience designing for physical retail environments, stores, pop-ups, or experiential spaces.
- Strong understanding of how 2D brand and graphic design translates into a built environment.
- Strong conceptual design and visual storytelling skills.
- Ability to take a brief through the full creative lifecycle:
- Concept
- Mood board
- Storytelling
- Design development
- Production and installation
- Portfolio that clearly demonstrates the brief, ideation process, design thinking, and final execution.
- Experience creating custom, large-scale brand moments, such as:
- Barricades
- Installations
- Environmental graphics
- Artwork
- Pop-ups
- Strong graphic design capabilities.
- Advanced experience with Adobe Creative Suite, particularly InDesign and Photoshop.
- Strong eye for composition, typography, brand expression, and visual storytelling.
- Comfortable balancing highly creative work with production-focused design.
- Experience designing within real-world constraints.
- Ability to maintain creative vision while considering:
- Budget
- Feasibility
- Production requirements
- Architecture
- Brand guidelines
- Comfortable collaborating with vendors to bring creative concepts into production.
- Highly collaborative and low ego.
- Self-starter who is open to feedback and comfortable iterating on concepts.
- Able to partner closely with Store Design, Construction, Project Management, external agencies/artists, and leadership.
- Strong communicator who can present creative concepts and gain stakeholder buy-in.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
- Able to work through ambiguity, changing priorities, and quick pivots.
- Strong judgment around when to push creative thinking versus when to adapt.
NICE TO HAVE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Pop-up and/or experiential retail design experience.
- Experience with 3D environments, sculptures, installations, environmental graphics, or spatial design.
- Experience curating or art directing external artists.
- Experience working with external creative agencies and production vendors.
- Background with a major retail, fashion, lifestyle, or consumer brand.
- Experience creating localized artwork or storytelling that incorporates community- or city-specific elements.
We may use artificial intelligence tools to assist with the screening, assessment, or selection of potential applicants for this position.
