Visual Merchandising Designer - Industrial Color Extended

CoCreativ; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

FSA / HSA

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Industrial Color, a division of CoCreativ, seeks a Visual Merchandising designer for luxury brands to translate brand DNA into immersive retail experiences in NYC.

Hybrid role: 3 days onsite in midtown Manhattan, collaborating with Brand Marketing and Creative Ops to adapt global designs to local stores, manage DTOs, budgets, and vendor coordination, delivering flawless in-store execution.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in visual merchandising / luxury retail design.
• Proficient in 3D design software; SketchUp required.
• Strong proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign).
• Able to multi-task, manage deadlines, and coordinate vendor deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Planogram & Directive Formatting: assist in compiling field guidelines and visual program recaps.
• Create 2D/3D in-store designs: fixtures, counters, open sell gondolas scaled for local markets.
• Collaborate with Brand Marketing, Trade Marketing and Creative Ops to align with briefs and timelines.
• Manage DTO packaging specs and manufacturing handoff details.
• Oversee local visual installation and photo documentation of key projects.

Skills

Visual Merchandising

3D Design

Collaboration

Budget management

DTO specs

Tools

SketchUp

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Industrial Color is looking for a designer of visual merchandising to partner with our luxury beauty client. The VM designer is a highly collaborative, Visual Merchandising role designed for an ambitious designer ready to translate luxury brand DNA into immersive physical and digital retail destinations. Working within the Omni Creative framework and reporting into a Senior Manager, you will adapt and scale global designs into local retail footprints, concept 3D displays, manage project budgets, deliver DTO specs, and coordinate with vendors to ensure your designs are flawlessly executed in-store while collaborating directly with Marketing and Creative Ops. This role balances creative visual design with end-to-end operational execution. This role operates in a hybrid capacity with 3 days per week onsite at our client in midtown Manhattan.

Key Accountabilities

• Planogram & Directive Formatting: Assist in compiling, formatting, and organizing Field visual merchandising guidelines, quarterly
• visual program re-caps, and new store opening guidelines, including new graphics/ transparency / video asset orders.
• Creative Design & Layouts: Specializing in scaling global luxury assets down to fit diverse, localized US marketing strategies and
• retailer requirements
• Concept and Design : 2D graphic programs and 3D in-store Fixtures, Custom Counters, Open Sell gondolas.
• Cross Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with Brand Marketing, Trade Marketing and Creative Ops managers to ensure
• visual designs answer localized campaign briefs, launch timelines and retailer requirements. Close collaboration with Field Teams to ensure excellence in in-store merchandising and VM maintenance / replacements.

• Design Turn Overs (DTOs) Packaging: Author and package detailed DTO specifications including complex dimensions, localized die-lines, and detailed material callouts for manufacturing handoff.
• End-to-End Project Admin : 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 designs within project allocations.
• Local visual installation ensuring luxury-grade execution. Own professional photography shoot end-to-end process of key projects used to showcase L’Oreal USA executions for world wide review.
• Meeting & Administrative Support: Openness to work in the L’Oreal Hudson Office a min of 1-2x's weekly ; Support the VM team on Store Prep (IMM), Monthly reporting & photo Documentation of NY metro stores

• Professional Experience: 4 - 7+ years of experience in visual merchandising, luxury retail design,
• Software & Technical Skills: Highly proficient in 3D design software, SketchUp proficiency is required
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign)
• Career Growth mindset: Creative drive to transition from executing guidelines to developing original 3D spatial concepts.
• Organizational Prowess: Proactive and strong ability to multi-task, manage multiple production deadlines, and coordinate vendor deliverables.

The anticipated salary range for this role is $90,000 - $110,000 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....