Salary Range: 69000 to 86000 (Currency: CAD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)
Your opportunity at ARC’TERYX:
As a Concepts Designer on the Retail Brand team, you will be a collaborative member of the Retail Brand Marketing pod, and a partner often with the Retail Store Design team. You will take part in developing new and innovative concepts across a wide variety of projects, from in-store to experiential to events. Your experience in architectural design, physical experiences, display design, graphic design, and premium in-store executions enables you to work on the future thinking projects that connect consumers to our brand and our products. You work well cross-functionally, have taken ideas from concept to reality, and can articulate a clear vision with ease.
This role is based out of our North Vancouver office and is open to hybrid remote work. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada. Normal business operations are in PST.
Meet your future team:
The Brand Creative team is hands-on and iterative; building creative with the same passion embodied in our product. Art Directors, Graphic Designers, Photographers, Stylists, Videographers, Editors, Environmental Designers and Craftspeople embody a wide spectrum of skills to be deployed. The team is comfortable behind the pen, on an exposed ridgeline, and in any global city. You will be a key member of the Retail Brand pod, working to bring brand focused projects and deliverables to life. You will work cross-functionally with our partners in Retail, Store Design, Brand Marketing and Brand Operations.
If you were the Retail Brand Concepts Designer now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:
- Utilizing your experience and knowledge to help develop future thinking brand displays, refine existing concepts, and bring them into reality
- Developing and iterating on concepts for all channels (flagship, brand stores, partner stores, factory outlets, shop-in-shops, tradeshows, etc.)
- Communicating our brand effectively through visualization and presentation, presenting ideas clearly in both 2D and 3D, maintaining a high level of fidelity through rendering
- Preparing decks, both conceptual presentations and design intents for validation, approval, and presentation to key stakeholders
- Partnering closely with the Senior Concepts designer to align on strategies, workflows, and future design development
- Supporting our production teams with build guides and design details
- Working with Brand Operations partners to track time to and meet time sensitive deadlines
- Supporting other design and production activities as assigned
Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:
- Concepting around a pop-up store for a future product line
- Helping shape and refine global retail design guidelines
- Designing an experiential event for a global marketing campaign
- Researching new market trends, innovative materials and processes related to retail design
Are you our next Retail Brand Concepts Designer?
- You have a Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Graphic Arts, Architecture, Industrial Design, Design or a related field
- You have 3+ years of Retail Design, Environmental Design, Architectural Design, Experiential Design, Graphic Design, or a combination of related work experience
- You have excellent design and verbal/visual communication skills
- You have excellent ability to create, understand and translate 3D concepts into 2D mock-ups
- You have experience with both Mac and PC platforms
- You are proficient in Adobe CC Suite, Sketch Up, Rhino, VRay or Keyshot, Smartsheet and MS Office
- You have demonstrated the ability to proof-read text in English to a very high standard
- You have strong knowledge of current retail landscape and the latest trends and innovations
- You have a strong ability to drive work to ensure deadlines are met
- You are extremely organized
- You are detail oriented with a meticulous eye for visual consistency
- You are driven to problem solve and open to learn
- You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions
- You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
- You effectively balance autonomy and collaboration
- You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement
- You seek the best (but sometimes not the easiest) solutions, with an unwavering commitment to do what is right
- Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it