Senior Designer Visual Merchandising - IC Extended

We are looking for a Senior Designer of Visual Merchandising to partner with our client's hallmark creative team. You will work onsite in a hybrid capacity at our client in midtown Manhattan. This senior role is responsible for translating luxury brand DNA into immersive physical and digital retail destinations for assigned luxury portfolios. Working across a multi-brand creative framework and partnering directly with marketing and creative operations, you will be responsible for the creative lifecycle turning flat marketing briefs into stunning deliverables. This involvies concepting 3D displays, managing timelines, delivering DTO (Design Turn Over), and supervising vendor production and physical local installations when appropriate. This role balances creative visual design with end-to-end operational execution.

This role is part of a team that drives brand visibility in the US through limited-life, high-impact physical experiences. The team is responsible for the end-to-end strategy, design, and execution of seasonal campaigns driving retail excellence for major holidays like Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, and the Holiday season, while also amplifying the market impact of key product launches. These dynamic retail installations range from prominent beauty outposts and visual week takeovers to immersive consumer pop-ups.

Key Accountabilities:

• Cross Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with brand partners to execute briefs and deliver physical assets aligned with omni-campaign goals.

• 3D Concepting & Visual Design: Design and model highly creative 3D Retailer destinations (Visual Weeks, In-Posts), custom window displays, seasonal holiday programs, and brand pop-ups/outposts/events.

• Design Turn Overs (DTOs): Author and package detailed DTO specifications including complex dimensions, localized die-lines, and detailed material callouts for manufacturing handoff.

• Vendor Coordination & Local Installs: Directly coordinate with print, production and installation vendors, request vendor fabrication quotes, manage print proofs, review prototypes, and supervise local visual installation ensuring luxury-grade execution. Own end-to-end professional photography shoot process of key projects used to showcase brand executions for global review.

• Visual Asset Archiving & Global Showcasing: Direct and own the professional photography process used to showcase best-in-class executions for global review.

• End-to-End Project Administration: Manage the full operational lifecycle of your assigned projects—including sharing project progression with key stake holders for approval, maintaining strict timelines, tracking individual project budgets, and managing vendor development / production to deliver deliver designs within project allocations.

Requirements

• Experience: 8+ years of related experience in luxury 3D retail design, industrial design, or visual merchandising.

• Software Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in 3D modeling/rendering software (SketchUp, VRay/Keyshot) and Adobe Creative Suite.

• Hands-on Ownership: Outstanding ability to balance high-level creative concepting with on-site, physical build coordination and daily administrative organization under rapid turnaround times.

• Organizational Agility: Proven ability to manage corporate relationships, multiple cross-functional projects, and influence partners for decision making.

Benefits

The anticipated salary range for this role is $100,000 - $119,000 annually. Ranges are based on various factors including the labor market, job type, internal equity, and budget. Exact offers are calibrated by work location, individual candidate experience, and skills relative to the defined job requirements.

This role operates in a hybrid capacity with several days per week onsite at our client in midtown Manhattan.

We offer a competitive benefits package including major medical, dental and vision insurance, FSA, HSA, commuter benefits.

Industrial Color is a division of CoCreativ, a family of integrated creative production companies that includes Globaledit, and Smashbox Studios. We partner with top brands, agencies, and creative professionals providing a full range of essential production services. For over 30 years, we've led the industry through a culture of innovation, bringing state-of-the-art production, post-production and creative technology solutions to our clients.

Our headquarters is based in Tribeca, NY, with offices in Los Angeles and studios in Brooklyn and Los Angeles. Our clients include: Amazon, Apple, Christie’s, Disney, L'Oreal, LVMH, Mercedes, Michael Kors, Nike, Puma, Rivian, Tiffany & Co, Tumi, Rivian, Warner Brothers Discovery....