Design Enablement Project Manager

Best Buy; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Employee discount

Well-being support

Job summary

Best Buy in Richfield, Minnesota is seeking a Design Enablement Project Manager on the Store Experience Design Team to connect creative vision with operational execution across store formats and concepts. You’ll partner with cross-functional teams to plan, drive, and deliver end-to-end design initiatives from concept through implementation.

This role is hybrid, requiring on-site collaboration Monday through Thursday at the corporate office with Friday remote work.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in program management, ideally in retail or experiential design.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams including designers, engineers, and operations.
• Proficiency with Workfront, Smartsheet or similar tools; PMP preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, cross-functional store design programs from concept through launch, ensuring alignment with business objectives, brand standards, and creative vision.
• Manage project plans, timelines, milestones, risks, and deliverables across store environments, fixture systems, graphics, and customer experience initiatives.
• Serve as the primary liaison between Store Design, Visual Merchandising, Marketing, Construction, Architecture, Operations, and external partners to drive alignment and execution.
• Translate business needs into actionable project briefs, facilitate design reviews, and ensure stakeholders remain informed, accountable, and aligned throughout the design process.
• Champion continuous improvement of workflows, documentation, and process standards to enable scalable, efficient, and repeatable design execution.
• Identify opportunities for innovation and operational efficiency within design development and implementation processes.
• Ensure design intent, brand integrity, and customer experience standards are maintained through execution by partnering with implementation, engineering, production, and field teams.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Project management tools

Design processes

Retail experience

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in design, marketing, business or related field

Tools

Adobe Workfront

Smartsheet

Job description

As a Design Enablement Project Manager

on the Store Experience Design Team, you will be the connective tissue between creative vision and operational execution. You’ll partner with cross-functional teams to plan, drive, and deliver end-to-end design initiatives across our store formats and concepts. With a scope that spans fixture design, environmental design, store formats, visual merchandising, graphics, and experiential strategy, this role requires a strategic thinker who thrives in complexity, excels at cross-functional alignment, and can manage multiple high-impact programs from concept through implementation. This individual has a proactive, collaborative, and resourceful mindset that drives the evolution of our experiences forward.

This role is hybrid, which means you will be required to work on site Monday through Thursday at the Best Buy corporate office in Richfield, Minnesota. You can work virtually from home or another non‑Best Buy location on Friday. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.

What You’ll Do

• Lead complex, cross-functional store design programs from concept through launch, ensuring alignment with business objectives, brand standards, and creative vision.
• Manage project plans, timelines, milestones, risks, and deliverables across store environments, fixture systems, graphics, and customer experience initiatives.
• Serve as the primary liaison between Store Design, Visual Merchandising, Marketing, Construction, Architecture, Operations, and external partners to drive alignment and execution.
• Translate business needs into actionable project briefs, facilitate design reviews, and ensure stakeholders remain informed, accountable, and aligned throughout the design process.
• Champion continuous improvement of workflows, documentation, and process standards to enable scalable, efficient, and repeatable design execution.
• Identify opportunities for innovation and operational efficiency within design development and implementation processes.
• Ensure design intent, brand integrity, and customer experience standards are maintained through execution by partnering with implementation, engineering, production, and field teams.

Basic qualifications

• 5 or more years of experience in program management, preferably in retail, architecture, experiential design, or creative environments.
• 2 or more years of experience working with creative and technical teams, including designers, engineers, architects, and stakeholders.
• 1 or more years of experience working Adobe Workfront, Smartsheet or similar project management tools and/or programs.
• Proven ability to manage complex projects with multiple stakeholders in fast-paced environments.
• Strong understanding of design processes including fixture development, graphic design, space planning, and environmental storytelling.
• Familiarity with in-store marketing, visual merchandising, and omnichannel retail experiences.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and experience in creating structure in evolving programs.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in design, marketing, business or related field

Preferred qualifications

• PMP Certification

What’s in it for you

We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.

Our Benefits Include

• Competitive pay
• Generous employee discount
• Physical and mental well-being support

Best Buy provides different types of leaves of absence (LOA) and potential pay sources to employees based on eligibility. The length of your LOA depends on your situation, where you live, your full-time or part-time employment status, and federal and state regulations. Intermittent or reduced-schedule leave is also available for certain medical or family care leaves. Paid time off (vacation or PTO) is offered to full-time and part-time employees based on work location, employment status, salary or hourly status (exempt/non-exempt), and years of continued or bridged service.

Certain roles, where market norms demand it, are eligible for various forms of incentive pay to drive performance and offer recognition for achieving financial and strategic results. For more information about our incentive pay plans, including eligibility, please refer to our Incentive Programs Summary

For more information about benefits, LOA and paid time off, please refer to our Benefits Guide.

About Us

As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.

Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.

Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer