Retail Designer

Be ambitious and deliver industry-leading creative.
Reporting to the Creative Director, you will help to develop design strategies to deliver the best possible creative solutions for brand-led transformation and activation. As a 3D Designer you will explore, conceptualise, and craft design solutions that push boundaries of creativity and deliver game-changing innovative solutions.

• Be responsible for running your own creative projects to deliver innovative and engaging concepts.
• Continually seek out opportunities to challenge, improve, and refine D4R’s creative execution. Identifying opportunities to push the creative development of projects by aiming for continually improving standards for yourself and the creative team.
• Ensuring the output to our clients is both innovative and consistently of a high standard.
• Be a skilled communicator, able to tactfully challenge briefs and explain the implications and risks of different routes and decisions.
• Be present in relevant client-facing meetings to take briefs, present creative, and represent D4R.

Manage your time and the creative process for success.

• Liaise between account managers, the wider studio team, and technical department to ensure successful delivery every time.
• Have experience working within a larger integrated team (graphics, architectural and possibly digital).
• Demonstrate excellent technical skills, including 3DSMax, VRay, Vectorworks,, Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
• Have knowledge of the manufacturing processes, fabrication techniques and construction technologies used in retail design and build.
• Have experience of working and liaising with contractors and manufacturers.
• Stay abreast of current thinking and trends and provide guidance and inspiration for the wider team as well as our clients with a particular focus on retail trends, consumer behaviours, and strategy.
• Be punctual and have an excellent grasp of time management. Manage and prioritise different workflows both independent and collaboratively within a team.
• Understand project pathways to ensure delivery of creative output to expected timeframes.
• Identify your own capacity requirements ahead of time, keep Creative Director and your peers aware of potential need for support.

Share knowledge and experience with more junior team members.
As a growing Middleweight Designer, you will also mentor more junior team members, and build partners internally across departments, working across all disciplines as an active team player.

• Develop and demonstrate excellent listening and questioning skills, be a brilliant communicator.
• Proactively contribute, and encourage others to contribute, ideas and concepts that evolve team knowledge.
• Have high standards. Take pride in the work, have an impeccable eye for detail.
• Work with junior designers and interns, acting as mentor and sounding board through the creative process, giving clear and direct feedback.

Why Join Us

We are ambitious, fearless, and collaborative. Here, ideas turn into reality.

You will:

• Work with exciting brands across beauty, fashion, sport, and lifestyle.
• Join a supportive, energised team in a countryside HQ.
• Receive a competitive salary and benefits.
• Be amongst a supportive management and be able to operate a flexible work-life balance.