Retail Experience Designer

Location: Hybrid in-office role based in Boston, Massachusetts; Tuesday–Thursday in the Boston office, Monday and Friday optionally remote. This is not a virtual or fully remote position.

Annual base pay: USD 121,125–132,997.50, with potential additional equity, bonuses, commissions, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a large online home retailer expanding its physical retail presence and developing branded store environments.

What you will do

• Translate hirify.global’s brand identity into cohesive physical retail environments for new stores, remodels, and other initiatives.
• Develop creative concepts and define architectural and environmental moments including entrances, walls, transitions, cash wraps, and service areas.
• Recommend materials, finishes, colors, graphics, dimensional brand elements, fixtures, and other physical brand expressions.
• Create sketches, mood boards, elevations, mockups, renderings, and presentations that communicate design intent.
• Collaborate with architects, Store Design, graphic designers, signage teams, fabricators, vendors, and project partners; review drawings, samples, prototypes, and shop drawings.
• Participate in material reviews, site walks, installations, and design reviews while establishing scalable standards for hirify.global’s growing store portfolio.

Requirements

• Approximately 5–8+ years of experience in retail experience design, branded environments, environmental design, experiential design, retail interiors, or a related discipline.
• A portfolio demonstrating built physical environments and strong examples of translating a brand into space.
• Exceptional visual and conceptual design instincts with a strong understanding of brand identity and storytelling.
• Experience designing across both 2D and 3D environments, rather than exclusively within architecture or graphic design.
• Strong understanding of materials, finishes, fabrication techniques, and how design decisions translate into built environments.
• Experience collaborating with architects, interior designers, fabricators, contractors, and/or design-build partners.
• Ability to read and respond to architectural plans, elevations, and renderings; deep technical architectural expertise is not required.
• Strong visualization, presentation, communication, and design-rationale skills, including communication with creative and non-creative partners.
• Ability to balance ambitious creative thinking with cost, durability, operational requirements, and scalability.

Nice to have

• Experience with Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, SketchUp, Rhino, AutoCAD, Revit, or rendering software; mastery of any single platform is not required.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid schedule with three required in-office days and two optional work-from-home days.
• Opportunity to shape a growing physical retail portfolio and establish scalable branded-environment principles.
• Comprehensive medical, financial, and additional employee benefits.
• Potential equity, bonuses, and commissions depending on the position offered.
• Equal-opportunity workplace with reasonable accommodations available for qualified individuals with disabilities.

Hiring process

• Applicants requiring accommodation for the application or interview process can request support through hirify.global’s accommodations process.