About the job
Join Industrial Color as a Visual Merchandising Designer to collaborate with our esteemed luxury beauty client. This role operates on a hybrid schedule, requiring several days of onsite work in El Segundo, CA. As a Visual Merchandising Designer, you will engage in all aspects of visual merchandising, from the initial design phase to execution, ensuring innovative and customer-focused design solutions through teamwork with the Visual Merchandising and Store Design teams. Your role will involve addressing unique and complex challenges that significantly impact our business. You will translate your creative ideas into engaging presentation materials and detailed drawings, seamlessly shifting between visual merchandising and store design.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate closely with the Retail Design and Visual Merchandising teams to develop captivating visual merchandising designs for point-of-sale (POS) displays.
- Generate merchandising directives and planograms.
- Coordinate across various internal departments, including Store Design, Visual Merchandising, Creative, Sales Administration, and Marketing.
- Establish visual merchandising guidelines for all retail partners such as Ulta, Sephora, and department stores.
- Design from initial concept through 3D computer renderings.
- Create 3D proposals and planograms for seasonal updates of permanent fixtures, counters, and display units.
- Produce technical drawings and planograms using SketchUp and AutoCAD for merchandising displays and launch units.
- Compile comprehensive technical design handovers for production vendors.
- Engage with both internal and external agency partners for collaborative projects.
- Work with the Creative team to ensure timely delivery of all creative assets.
- Stay informed about trends, styles, materials, and technologies pertinent to the prestige and luxury beauty market.
- Be knowledgeable about sustainable design practices and proactively integrate them into all projects.
- Format training guidelines and best practices for field team visual merchandising execution excellence.

