Visual Design Job Description
Visual design
provides graphic media (renderings, sketches, diagrams, etc) for architectural enhancements on potential conversion properties using Bluebeam, Photoshop and Sketch-Up.
Visual Design Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Draft and sketch general space planning layouts for all stores and shop in shops, including global partners
Conceptualizes and develops new visual design and merchandising initiatives and strategies
Displays ability to execute projects and tasks (Visual Merchandising Guides, Fixture Catalogs, other departmental files) while adhering to established brand standards and department best practices – including technical design creation/layout and merchandising standards
Partnering with Portfolio Brand Teams (Michael Kors, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Armani, ), Environmental Design Team, Marketing Team, and Art Team to develop, explore, design, refine, and implement improvements to the brand experience on a global scale
Ensuring all merchandising and design solutions deliver creative strategies, balance business objectives with customer needs, follow established usability best practices, and are optimized for highest performance
Direct the creative vision of all Global Merchandising projects across the entire organization
Drive & deliver SD and VM initiatives while ensuring creative strategy and brand values are successfully implemented and aligned with global vision and locally relevant
Act as a key partner with the Global Creative team, Regional Brand team and APDC Corporate team to drive best practices and future regional corporate initiatives
Build strong partnership
Share a clear and monthly update of all work in progress during our monthly Director’s forum and strategy meeting
Visual Design Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Visual Design
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CTS, BA, BFA, ITIL, PMP
Education for Visual Design
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the visual design job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Design, Graphic Design, Visual Design, Education, Visual Communication, Visual Communication Design, Visual Communications, Communications, Visual Arts, Industrial Design
Skills for Visual Design
Desired skills for visual design include:
HTML
Usability principles and techniques
CSS
Adobe Creative Suite
Sketch
Excel
Illustrator
Photoshop
Typography
PowerPoint
Desired experience for visual design includes:
Prior experience as a designer in a fast-paced, high pressure creative environment
Those with less experience will be considered for the post as Assistant Visual Merchandiser
Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design or Merchandising
3-4 years Graphic Design and Merchandising experience
High-level knowledge/Experience in Adobe Photoshop and InDesign required
Strong, demonstrated experience in the understanding of innovative design, layout, and composition
Visual Design Examples
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Visual Design Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of visual design. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for visual design
- Set key performance objectives for SD and VM Design team and construction activities and clearly communicate priorities and target results to key stakeholders
- Develop upstream design capability
- Develop an on-going innovative eco-system within design’s team, leveraging on their core expertise, passion, interest and given objectives
- Lead and support Store Construction cost optimization initiatives, at the affiliate, regional and global levels
- Support and integrate new processes and planning, technology, reporting and KPI’s to be on time, on cost, on quality
- Ensure to monitor excellence in execution in every store and share best practice
- Leverage on CSI corporate support to deliver locally meaningful and relevant design & innovative VM solution to win within our markets and our shoppers
- Develop and maintain a set of merchandising guidelines to the highest possible standards across all distribution and in conjunction with the Dutch store design guidelines
- Manage all visual merchandising components including props, display forms and furniture across all channels
- Train retail store teams on visual guidelines so as to promote field management of implemented guidelines
Qualifications for visual design
- Self-organized, manages personal deadlines on numerous, concurrent projects
- Experience in the fashion retail industry highly preferred & and previous merchandising experience
- Mentor, coaching and training experience preferred
- Pursuing a Bachelor of Arts or Masters in Graphic Design, Information Design, Communication Design
- Familiarity with Android UI visual guidelines interaction guidelines
- At least 3 years of experience in user experience design, digital art direction and visual design
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a visual design. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for visual design
- Author regular Corporate Visual Merchandising guidelines and updates to allow for easy in store execution
- Partner with Creative Services and Retail Operations to rollout seasonal or monthly display components to all stores
- Develop strong relationships with internal and external business partners
- Build cross functional partnerships to ensure visual merchandising supports the business strategy and financial plan
- Maintain the Visual Calendar and ensure due dates are met for prop shipments, concept roll outs and special events
- Work closely with the retail operations team to understand store planning, and provide insight to help build new stores based from a Visual Merchandising point of view
- Key partner in New Store Opening process to support seamless in store execution
- Alignment between Visual Merchandising and global brand marketing to ensure assortment fits globally, regionally and in small, medium and large formats
- Develop tools to aid markets with keeping up to date with new collateral launches and new merchandising guidelines
- In conjunction with Retail Operations, oversee the planning, design, scheduling, development and execution of all Dutch, LLC stores including international partners
Qualifications for visual design
- At least 3 years of experience in user experience design, information architecture, prototyping, heuristics, usability planning
- At least 5 years of experience in user experience design, information architecture, prototyping, heuristics, usability planning, facilitation / testing, analytics
- At least 5 years of experience directly working with cross-functional work groups (user experience architects, designers
- At least 5 years of experience in digital art direction and visual design
- 7 years of experience with information architecture, visual design, prototyping, heuristics
- 7 years of experience working with cross-functional work groups (user experience architects, designers, copywriters, front-end developers)
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Our company is looking to fill the role of visual design. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for visual design
- Assessing of sites & studying suitability of New brand rollouts in TR APAC
- Play as an enabler of team work & project communication across stakeholders
- Ensure the quality technical build drawings for all renewal projects in the region
- He/she has to work with the NY brand teams to ensure the Brand has properly reviewed, aligned & clarified the design input
- Collaborate with Global teams on Regional requirements
- Coordinate and develop Studio based quality drawings with team
- Support on occasion special key focus activities
- Responsible for the development of impactful design concepts for assigned programs
- Present concepts to VP/Creative Director, Marketing and Senior Management
- Collaborate with VP/Creative Director, Store Design/Visual Merchandising, Packaging and architectural consultants to develop in-store merchandising elements for global markets
Qualifications for visual design
- Presenting concepts to peers, management, and executive stakeholders and influencing design, product and business direction
- At least 2 years of experience in visual design and digital art direction
- Must be enrolled in a 4-year accredited college
- Should be pursuing a major in either Graphic Design, Communications, Advertising, Creative Writing, etc
- Must be able to show us your portfolio!
- Experience of working in an agile
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of visual design. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for visual design
- Manage and oversee the in store design process for new locations and renovation projects
- Minimal travel as needed for retail site visits, photo shoots and press approvals
- Prepare, and execute creative set up for Press Events, Visual Weeks, Public Relations events, retailer and sales meetings
- Instructors will need to commit a few hours per week preparing lessons and materials
- Lead an outstanding team of visual designers and supervise their work
- Provide visual design direction across all platforms and products
- Interpret and translate UX wireframes into creative visual design and/or interactive design solutions
- Leverage corporate brand guidelines
- Create visual design patterns, guidelines, assets, and prototypes
- Participate in the conceptualization, implementation, and production of designs for all standards and team projects
Qualifications for visual design
- Advanced skillset in digital design with an emphasis on user interfaces
- Advanced understanding of typography, layout, visual design for branding/commerce environments
- Obsess over detail and are comfortable crafting pixel perfect designs
- Passion for typography, color, and visual hierarchy
- Experience creating engaging, useable, and effective design solutions for the web, mobile, or applications
- Experience with responsive design and development
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Our growing company is hiring for a visual design. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for visual design
- Participate on cross-functional project teams (Product, Engineering, Interaction Design, Front End Development) in brainstorming sessions for concept ideation
- Create testing artifacts, , mockups for the test
- Collaborate with core team to determine how to achieve visual communications objectives
- Help create communications standards for key communications artifacts & alignment tools central to the CXD-led processes, client journey maps, reports, summary of insights, articulation of our processes, proposals
- Create communications templates
- Design, polish and continually refine key communications artifacts
- Align to the way products, services are presented to customers in marketing
- Rationalize solutions and effectively communicate ideas and designs
- Build a strong rapport with creative team personnel, managers and stakeholders
- Attract, recruit and retain talent to grow the discipline
Qualifications for visual design
- Portfolio of demonstrated ability showing UI design and prototypes to solve complex design challenges
- A degree in Graphic Design, Interaction design, HCI, or similar field related to Human-Computer Interaction
- Experience with animation and motion graphics
- Minimum Degree with major in Architecture, Interior Design or Industrial Design (or equivalent experience)
- Minimum 12 years of related design experience in the luxury space with at least 5 years experience in managing a team
- Self-starter with excellent project management organizational skills