Retail Creative Designer

Title: Retail Creative Designer

Location: Minneapolis, MN (Hybrid)

Job Type: Contract (7 Months)

Compensation: $55.00-67.66/hr W2

Industry: Retail

About The Role

Our client, a leading national retailer known for its design-forward approach to everyday products and elevated guest experience, is seeking a Retail Creative Designer to join their in-house creative team. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a portfolio of well-known owned brands across multiple consumer categories, shaping how products show up on shelves, in stores, and in the hands of millions of guests. The role sits at the intersection of brand identity, packaging, and retail marketing, making it ideal for a designer who thrives on variety and enjoys connecting big-picture brand thinking to tangible, consumer-facing design execution.

Job Description

We are seeking a Retail Creative Designer to support a range of creative initiatives across multiple brands and business categories. This role will focus primarily on brand identity and packaging design, while also supporting retail marketing, signage, and in-store graphic communications. The ideal candidate brings strong conceptual thinking, exceptional design execution, and a portfolio demonstrating consumer-facing brand and packaging work.

Key Responsibilities

• Support a range of design projects, from adapting existing brand systems to developing new creative concepts.
• Create and execute visual solutions across brand identity, packaging, retail marketing, signage, and in-store graphic communications.
• Develop creative concepts from initial ideation through final execution while maintaining brand consistency.
• Build presentations and visual storytelling materials that communicate creative rationale and connect design solutions to business objectives.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously across brands and business categories while meeting established deadlines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including marketing, brand, merchandising, production, and other business stakeholders.
• Contribute to projects of varying complexity and scope based on business priorities and team needs.
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in graphic design, brand design, packaging design, retail creative, or a related field.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating:
• Brand identity design
• Packaging design
• Consumer-facing creative work
• Experience developing and applying brand systems across multiple touchpoints and channels.
• Proven ability to develop creative concepts and execute high-quality design solutions from concept through production.
• Advanced proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, including:
• Illustrator
• InDesign
• Photoshop
• Strong presentation and communication skills with the ability to articulate creative decisions and design rationale.
• Experience managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting consumer-facing brands, retail organizations, or CPG environments
• Experience creating brand systems or adapting existing brand systems.
• Experience with packaging design.
• Experience with in-store signage or retail marketing.
• Familiarity with Miro or similar collaboration and ideation tools.
• Awareness of current design, retail, and consumer trends, and the ability to apply those insights to creative solutions.
  
  

Benefits

Dahl Consulting is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees that will allow you to choose the best coverage to meet your family’s needs. For details, please review the DAHL Benefits Summary: https://www.dahlconsulting.com/benefits-w2fta/.

How To Apply

Take the first step on your new career path! To submit yourself for consideration for this role, simply click the apply button and complete our mobile-friendly online application. Once we’ve reviewed your application details, a recruiter will reach out to you with next steps!

Equal Opportunity Statement

As an equal opportunity employer, Dahl Consulting welcomes candidates of all backgrounds and experiences to apply. If this position sounds like the right opportunity for you, we encourage you to take the next step and connect with us. We look forward to meeting you!

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