Retail Experiential Designer, Luxury Retail Spaces

🌍 Remote, USA 🎯 Full-time 🕐 Posted Recently

Job Description

Freelance Retail / Experiential Designer

Remote, Flexible Location (Preferred: Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, New York, Portland)

Contract, 40hrs a week

Mon - Friday

Pay - $60-65/hr (w2, eligible for benefits)

Expected to start ASAP in May 2026

A global lifestyle brand is seeking a freelance designer with a strong background in tactile retail and experiential design to help translate seasonal brand campaigns into scalable, production-ready physical environments.

This role is focused on reinterpreting creative concepts into immersive in-store experiences, thinking through how seasonal campaigns come to life across retail, pop-ups, wholesale, and branded environments globally. The ideal candidate understands luxury retail storytelling, materiality, and how to create spaces customers can physically experience through texture, finishes, scale, and atmosphere.

Scale and reinterpret seasonal campaign concepts into physical retail environments
Translate brand vision into immersive in-store experiences and environmental design systems
Write creative briefs and design direction for global agency partners to execute
Partner closely with internal creative, retail, and experiential teams
Develop rollout guidelines, toolkits, and scalable applications across markets
Support prototyping, fabrication, materials, finishes, and production-ready execution
Review and refine agency adaptations to ensure premium quality and brand consistency
Bring a tactile, luxury look-and-feel to retail storytelling and shopper experience

6–8+ years in retail design, experiential design, environmental design, or branded environments
Strong portfolio featuring tactile retail experiences and premium/luxury physical environments
Experience translating campaign concepts into scalable retail executions
Strong understanding of materiality, fabrication, visual merchandising, and spatial storytelling
Ability to think conceptually while executing within production realities
Experience collaborating with global agencies and cross-functional teams
Strong communication, organization, and presentation skills