Senior Retail Designer

Bolster, a Taylor Company, is looking for a skilled Senior Retail Designer to bring their best to the team and bring out the best in the team. You'll join a group of strategic thinkers, designers, developers, and creative storytellers to collaborate in developing innovative brand experiences for retail, lifestyle and commercial brands. The position involves direct interaction with sales, marketing, design, engineering, and production teams, where, as a team, you'll solve complex design and marketing challenges with imaginative approaches and solutions.

You will provide insight, research, and creative expertise to help lead discovery and experimentation as you collaborate with multiple stakeholders, including project management, marketing team members, and sales teams.

Your Responsibilities:

• Concept and design 3D environments and experiences from start to finish, with a strict attention to detail and ability to work to scale, to ensure a seamless handover to R&D, production and fabrication teams.
• Develop big ideas that translate across 2D, 3D and digital applications.
• Design development of displays, fixtures, environments, signage systems, and graphics.
• 3D modeling, lighting, texturing, and rendering.
• Create original design solutions, communicate and present design concepts to Creative Director and other team partners.
• Create visual presentations for project concepts, proposals, pitches, and new business responses.
• Work with design leader and team leaders to ensure design feasibility, budget, and overall program needs.
• Build working files to connect the design team with the R&D, production and fabrication teams and resolve issues that arise.
• Catalog and reference art for future projects, organizing templates, assets, materials, proofs, etc.
• Follow production timelines to ensure tasks are being completed and communicate progress and challenges along the way.
• Troubleshoot problems as they arise with both the creative team, and business partners.
• Uphold the standards of established brands through design excellence.
• The ability to balance multiple projects, as a leader, contributor and direct creator.

You Must Have:

• A strong portfolio exemplifying talent and experience
• Bachelor's degree in graphic design, industrial design, or equivalent art school education
• 7+ years collective experience at brand, design, and/or in-house retail agencies
• Expert user of the latest 3D software applications, such as Blender, SketchUp, 3DS Max or Cinema 4D (the latter two preferred), as well as Adobe Creative Suite
• Solid understanding of materials, production techniques and file preparation
• Familiarity with using project management tools (Monday.com, etc.)
• Outstanding organizational, project management, file-organization and archiving skills
• Ability to handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
• Process-orientation and self-starting character - as you'll be expected to stay up to date with new techniques and trends through industry involvement
• Willingness to learn on the job
• A creative and innovative design thinking spirit
• A reliably calm disposition when under pressure
• Ability to read and understand architectural drawings
• Hand sketching is highly preferred

The anticipated annual salary range for this position is $80,000 - $100,000. The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include as applicable, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job. The range listed is just one component of Taylor Corporation's total compensation and benefits package for employees.

About Bolster, a Taylor Company

Founded in 2010, Bolster is an award winning, boutique creative agency backed by the production powerhouse of Taylor Corporation. Brand builders, storytellers and experience makers, the team is charting a new path in the world of agencies with a focus on serving purpose-driven, passion-fueled brands, across numerous business segments. From ideation to installation, Bolster has built a reputation of being practical problem solvers in helping brands make meaningful and engaging connections to deliver positive business results.

About Taylor Corporation

One of the largest graphics communications firms in North America, Taylor's family of companies provide a diverse set of products, services and technologies addressing the toughest communication challenges. For nearly 50 years, Taylor has been a premier provider of powerful and innovative products, services and expertise for individuals, businesses and distributors large and small. Our 10,000+ employees spanning 26 states and seven countries work diligently to create the interactive, printing and marketing solutions that have helped build some of the world's more recognizable brands. Everything we do begins with identifying the unique priorities and needs of our customers and creating one-of-a-kind solutions. We offer a comprehensive benefit package including several health plans to choose from, dental, vision, wellness programs, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, 401(k) plan with company match, paid time off (PTO) and 64 hours of annual holiday pay.

The Employer retains the right to change or assign other duties to this position.

Taylor Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Taylor Corporation including all partners and affiliates is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.