Visual Merchandising Designer - 2D/3D

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At Ooni, we want to help everybody experience the joy of making great pizza, and we're looking for a Visual Merchandising Designer to help us realize our dream.
A Little About Ooni
We're very hot. Specifically, 950°F hot. That's the perfect temperature to cook world-class pizza in 60-seconds, a mark all Ooni ovens can achieve in about 15 minutes. When we launched in 2012, we created a category by offering a small, fast, and accessible wood-fired pizza oven that gave ordinary people the critical tool to make great pizza at home.
Now we're on fire. Exponential growth, global distribution, an ever-expanding product portfolio that goes well beyond ovens, and a growing community of Ooni-lovers worldwide who sing our praises and treat their friends and family to epic pizza. We're at that perfect stage of growth, where we're still small enough for you to make a major difference, while big enough to have the resources to do amazing things.
Everyone deserves a great workplace. Everyone deserves to want to come to work and to feel excited on a Sunday evening. Everyone deserves to be valued and trusted by their employer and be allowed to learn and grow in their role. This is what we aim for at Ooni, and we think we're nailing it.
About The Role
Our new Visual Merchandising Designer - 2D/3D will be responsible for developing and designing product fixtures, displays, planograms, event spaces, and trade show booths for use across multiple channels. The chosen candidate will be tasked with bringing the Ooni brand to life by creating engaging, disruptive, and shoppable spaces. This role requires creativity and the ability to provide detailed 2D renderings and 3D models of concepts.
You will be a part of our global Marketing team, partnering closely with the local market Sales and Retail Marketing teams to ensure alignment with business objectives and priorities. An in-depth knowledge of visual merchandising and design is essential, as well as having the strategic and tactical agility to keep up with our rapid growth. You will work to execute strategies that support our fast-growing and constantly evolving business.
Responsibilities :

• Create disruptive, shoppable displays within a retail environment.
• Design engaging, scalable in-store/off-site event spaces.
• Design 2D renderings of permanent, semi-permanent fixtures and promotional units for all retailers.
• Create modular designs that can be scaled based on the number of SKUs listed and the size of footprint available.
• Adapt creative concepts to various fixture types/ specs & market needs (US, EMEA, etc.).
• Apply retailer in-store environment and signage standards to conceptual design.
• Partner with design packaging teams to provide accurate, to-scale depictions of spaces & activations that can be used for technical briefs & vendor bids.
• Advise on impact of packaging sizing or packaging changes to merchandising across all fixtures.
• Collaborate with the different departments, including Brand, Product, Retail Marketing & Sales, to conceptualize & develop seasonal planograms based on productivity & sales to support campaigns and launches.
• Communicate display design attributes, including materials, dimensions, tolerances, quality, etc., for manufacturing partners.

Essential Qualification :

• 2+ years of relevant experience in merchandising displays and design working either in-house or at an agency or manufacturer, and be able to share examples of your work.
• Hands-on experience with visual merchandising design, including: fixture design, print production, and event production.
• Strong understanding of engineering, prototypes, and the production process of acrylic, cardboard & other substrate merchandising displays.
• Experience delivering against clear briefs and helping to brief external agencies and manufacturers.
• Proficient use of the Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.
• Knowledge of 3-D software (e.g. SketchUp, Rhino, Vectorworks, KeyShot, 3D Studio Max, and/ or V-Ray)
• Have a passion for brands, stories, ideas, events, and an environment's physical design.
• You are creative, resourceful, and have a flexible problem-solving approach.
• You are flexible and willing to work as part of a global team across multiple time zones.
• Able to travel internationally.
• Love of eating, making, talking about pizza.......
• Can really get on board with our values (see below). They're all important!

The Company:

• Go to YouTube and search "We are Ooni". That video pretty much says it all. If you like what you see, then you are our kind of person.

The quick version is:

• We make epic pizza ovens that cook awesome pizza in 60 seconds and start from only $349
• We're now up to 300+ in the whole team. This number was 100 this time in 2021, and only 50 the year before that. And our team is AWESOME - our culture is core to our whole reason for being
• These are our values: Passion, Rigour, Innovation, Ambition, and Kindness. We really do live by them and demand them in everything we do. It ain't just corporate mumbo jumbo to us.

Benefits:

• $620 annually to spend on your passion - whatever that may be.
• Great pizza every single day if you want it. Yep. Every single day. And we'll teach you to become a pizza pro
• Enrolment into our 401k plan, plus medical, dental, and vision cover (100% cover for yourself and 50% cover for dependents)
• 35 days paid holiday per year
• $1200 to spend on Ooni products each year, plus a 50% discount on any other Ooni stuff
• A 5-week paid holiday (added onto your usual holidays) once you've been with us for 5 years.
• Employee Assistance Programme - our people are at the heart of everything we do, so if you're happy, we're happy.
• Raising money for charity - we're all about giving back... and having lots of fun in the process!

If you like what you see, apply online with your CV, and cover letter to tell us why you want to come on board and link to your online portfolio. We really like nice letters - especially ones that are personalized just for us!
Having a fantastic culture is really important to all of us at Ooni. We work hard to make it diverse and inclusive and want everyone to have access to the same opportunities. If you would like this advert in a different format or need an alternative method of applying, please let us know. You can email us at [email protected]