Position Title: Visual Merchant Designer

Duration: Contract

Location: Gothenburg, Sweden

Description of the Assignment:

• You will join the Brand Experience Design team contributing to the development of physical brand touchpoints across global markets.
• As a Visual Merchant Designer, you will work at the intersection of interior architecture, visual merchandising, and brand experience.
• You translate brand identity into spatial concepts, materials, furniture, and environments.
• From early concept phases to technical documentation and on-site execution.
• You are comfortable operating in international, high-end design contexts, balancing creative vision with precision, feasibility, and cost awareness.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop interior and visual concepts for brand experience environments, retail and exhibition.
• Translate brand identity into material palettes, furniture, layouts, and spatial narratives
• Create high-quality 3D visualizations and renders for internal alignment and stakeholder communication
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including brand, retail, procurement, and external suppliers
• Support on-site implementation and coordination for international projects
• Identify risks early and propose cost-effective, design-led solutions

Qualifications and Skills Required:

• 3+ years of professional experience in interior, spatial, or architecture design.
• Background in public, commercial, hospitality, or luxury retail environments
• Experience working in international design studios across Europe and Asia
• Strong ability to take projects from concept to execution
• Proficiency in AutoCAD, Rhino, SketchUp, Revit, Blender, V-Ray / 3ds Max
• Strong skills in Adobe Creative Suite
• Experience producing both conceptual and technical design material
• Strong visual sensibility with attention to materiality, detailing, and construction
• Fluent English, spoken and written

Personal Attributes:

• Strong drive, collaborative and organized as well as a good team player
• Strong visual communicator and comfortable presenting results
• Equally comfortable with ambiguity and execution, knowing when to explore or when to decide
• Passionate to work on ambiguous and complex future challenges
• Cultural awareness, especially Chinese and Northern European culture

Additional information:

• Travels to China may be needed (approx. 1-2 trips per year).
• Everyone in the team has a high level of responsibility and mandate and is expected to be able to work autonomously
• Fluent in English, spoken and written
• Driver's license

IT/SW Requirements:

• AutoCAD,
• Rhino
• SketchUp
• Revit,
• Blender
• V-Ray / 3ds Max
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Microsoft Office

Other:

• Design Portfolio (PDF format, 10MB maximum file size, please)

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