Senior Retail Creative Designer

Khu vực địa lý: Canada

Bang/Tỉnh/Thành phố: British Columbia

Thành phố: Vancouver

Đơn vị kinh doanh: Store Support Centre (SSC)

Loại thời gian: Full-time

Description & Requirements

who we are
lululemon is an innovative performance apparel company for yoga, running, training, and other athletic pursuits. Setting the bar in technical fabrics and functional design, we create transformational products and experiences that support people in moving, growing, connecting, and being well. We owe our success to our innovative product, emphasis on stores, commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we make in every community we're in. As a company, we focus on creating positive change to build a healthier, thriving future. In particular, that includes creating an equitable, inclusive and growth-focused environment for our people.

about this team

Global Retail Design Innovation collaborates and co-creates with internal business units to develop, innovate and evolve retail experiential concepts, retail store design, and retail fixture design that embody the unique lululemon experience. The overall team is responsible for the establishment, governance and maintenance of global store design principles, guidelines and prototypical templates to ensure consistent design ques reinforce a strong experiential brand identity. Through clarity, focus and coordination we support the business strategies and elevate the guest experience through retail design innovation.


job summary

  • Be a conceptual designer who can strategically demonstrate a concept narrative.
  • Challenge Store Design, working closely with a creative team, providing content for discussion through research, mood-boarding, sketch, visual development and agile working practices.
  • Manage a wide range of creative led projects that include architectural store design, mobile and pop-up activations, custom fabrications and guest experiences
  • Develop experiential concepts that elevate and innovate the guest and educator experience within the retail environment
  • Taking strategic direction from Director, set design direction, create visual communications and prototypes, that represent the store design and communicate to cross-functional stakeholders
  • Balance divergent and convergent thinking within cross-functional business units to identify retail design experience opportunities
  • Through collaboration with cross-functional partners, work through the innovation process from opportunity identification, concept development, prototyping, piloting
  • Engage with cross-functional partners to evaluate all aspects of the design process from defining guest profiles using research methodologies, physical and/or digital prototyping and documentation of learnings and principles
  • Work cross-functionally with teams in Experiential, Operations, Brand, Construction, Visual Merchandising, Whitespace and other business units throughout the organization as well as external vendors, artists and creatives to create beautiful, transformational experiences at our retail locations
  • Experience in campaign and product led experiences a bonus


core responsibilities

  • Develop design from concept to details, being able to hand off ideas and communicate clearly an idea through moodboards, sketches and visuals
  • Be a strategic and insight led creative, designing concepts with purpose for our brand and our guests.
  • Research, benchmark and conduct market case studies on competitors in the experiential marketplace – as well as gather insights, trends, best practices and consumer behaviors to inform development of brand-centered experiences, and innovations
  • Ideate new fixture strategies, VM opportunities, retail experiences with a concentration of our Brand integration into experiential retail design
  • Develop content for and produce presentation decks and design packages
  • Coordinate, facilitate, and participate in creative sprints and innovation charrettes
  • Manage materials and resources for material library
  • Work closely developing concepts as a highly collaborative designer with Industrial Designers, Graphic Designers, Stores Designers, Experience Designers
  • Ability to write and manage briefs for external partners


qualifications

  • BA or equivalent required in design focused major (architecture, interior design, industrial design)
  • 8 years minimum experience as Concept/Spatial Designer with strong project management skills in the following areas: creative agency, retail or design
  • Proficient in Adobe Suite (Photoshop, illustrator and InDesign)
  • Strong proficiency in 3D modeling with Cinema4d. Corona renderer or Vray a bonus but not essential.
  • Passion for and understanding of design and innovation
  • Passion for critical, logical, creative problem solving 
  • Superior interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate actively and proactively with others in a cross-functional, multi-disciplinary team
  • Excellent verbal, visual and presenter communication skills to diverse business stakeholders of various management types and levels of the organization

must haves
  • Acknowledge the presence of choice in every moment and take personal responsibility for your life.
  • Possess an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovate to achieve great results. 
  • Communicate with honesty and kindness and create the space for others to do the same. 
  • Lead with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure. 
  • Foster connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships. 
  • Integrate fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn’t take yourself too seriously.

additional notes
Immigration support is potentially available for this role.

compensation and benefits package 
lululemon’s compensation offerings are grounded in a pay-for-performance philosophy that recognizes exceptional individual and team performance. The typical hiring range for this position is from $103,500 - $135,900 annually; the base pay offered is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and internal equity. As part of our total rewards offering, permanent employees in this position may be eligible for our competitive annual bonus program, subject to program eligibility requirements.   

At lululemon, investing in our people is a top priority. We believe that when life works, work works. We strive to be the place where inclusive leaders come to develop and enable all to be well. Recognizing our teams for their performance and dedication, other components of our total rewards offerings include support of career development, wellbeing, and personal growth:
  • Extended health and dental benefits, and mental health plans 
  • Paid time off 
  • Savings and retirement plan matching 
  • Generous employee discount 
  • Fitness & yoga classes 
  • Parenthood top-up 
  • Extensive catalog of development course offerings 
  • People networks, mentorship programs, and leadership series (to name a few) 
Note: The incentive programs, benefits, and perks have certain eligibility requirements. The Company reserves the right to alter these incentive programs, benefits, and perks in whole or in part at any time without advance notice.


workplace arrangement

This role is classified as In-Person under our SSC Workplace Policy: In-person collaboration and/or office-based work is necessary or important for the role. Work is mainly performed onsite, 4-5 days per week depending on role requirements. #LI-Onsite #LI-KB2

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