Job description

Location: Remote (Candidates in CA, CO, FL, MD, NC, NY, UT, or WI are preferred. We cannot consider candidates in the following states: CT, DC, GA, HI, MA, ME, MN, NJ, NM, OR, RI, SC, VT)

Type: Full-time; contract-to-hire

The Woobles is a fun, quirky brand with a lean team. We’re looking for an Experiential Retail Designer with proven experience creating events for fun, modern brands in a fast-paced, remote work environment. If you’ve ever walked into a store, seen a beautiful setup, and thought “I could design that way better,” this role is for you.

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THE ROLE

This role is a senior-level IC role—ideal for someone who likes getting in the weeds and building something from the ground up. This role requires an innovative thinker with a strong background in experiential marketing, event conceptualization, brand storytelling, and audience engagement. You’ll collaborate across teams (marketing, design, leadership) and with production partners to bring each idea to life, all while maintaining Woobles’ signature brand voice: fun, clever, and a little unexpected.

You’ve designed playful, immersive experiences—from small-scale activations to large pop-ups—and you're just as comfortable bringing that same magic to a retail end cap as you are to an in-person event. In this role, you’ll take on the end-to-end design of everything from retail displays (end caps, PDQs, palette displays, etc.) to scrappy, standout events and installations. You’ll lead the concepting (with input from the Creative Director), pitch your ideas, then actually make them happen—hands on.

You’re not here to just make things pretty. You gather context from manufacturing, cost constraints, and brand goals to propose smart, on-brand solutions that punch above their weight. You can think spatially, visually, and logistically. You know how to make physical spaces stop people in their tracks, make ops folks’ lives easier, and mastermind a design system that both tells a cohesive story and speeds up the design process.

You know how to herd cats and meow loudly when you have to. You’ll work closely with internal teams (think design, marketing, founders, leadership) and production partners to conceptualize, design, and oversee the execution of world-class events. And while the team is fairly new to throwing events, we’re also opinionated, ambitious, and humbly recognize our need for a design sherpa in this space.

REQUIRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS
- 4+ years of hands-on experience designing for events, retail, or physical brand experiences
- Strong portfolio of immersive installations and/or retail environments (bonus if you’ve done both)
- Highly proficient in concepting and execution—you bring ideas to life, not just to slides
- Comfort with spatial layout, materials, and physical display design
- Self-directed with strong organization skills—you can manage timelines, vendors, and version control
- Collaborative communicator who’s comfortable giving and receiving feedback fast
- A working knowledge of environmental graphics, fabrication, or set design

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ABOUT YOU

You’re an all-around good human being. Life is short, and you want to be around people you like.

You’re kind, honest, and trustworthy. You want to work every day with positive, direct people who make you and your day better. No big egos allowed.

You value autonomy. You do your best when you’re given lots of responsibility and independence. You thrive in ambiguity and enjoy making decisions. Lots of them. When you run into problems, you have the resourcefulness to solve it on your own, and the self-awareness to know when you need help. You’re comfortable working remotely.

You care deeply about doing great work. You’ll do whatever it takes to get things done. But you don’t just settle at that. You’re always looking for ways to break your own records the next time around. Your teammates know they can always count on you, just like you can count on them.

You eat feedback for breakfast. You’re always looking for ways to improve (yourself, the process, the product, you name it), so you give and take feedback with equal grace.

You’ve got a sense of humor. Because have you seen what we make? You’re an emoji connoisseur and appreciate the art of well-timed GIFs. You want to work somewhere where a sentence like this is 100% relevant: “There’s 3 dinos on this one but I think it’s OK because one is riding a turtle.”

You’re thoughtful and detail-oriented. You gather as much context as possible – from business to manufacturing constraints – so you can propose creative, on-point solutions no matter your role!

But also fast. We launch anywhere from 3-10 products a month. You understand that one day’s delay can cause much longer than one day’s delay in the overall launch process, given that we’re manufacturing a physical product with teammates all over the world. You turnaround revisions quickly without compromising quality.