Retail Brand Creative Designer

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.