About the job
Industrial Designer — Retail Displays & Merchandising
iSEE Store Innovations | St. Louis, MO
About the Role
iSEE Store Innovations designs and manufactures retail displays and merchandising solutions for brands across a wide range of consumer categories. We turn merchandising challenges into physical solutions that help products stand out, engage shoppers, and perform at retail.
We’re looking for an Industrial Designer who can help us do more than execute ideas — we want someone who can help create them.
This role is for a creative problem solver who can take a loosely defined challenge, explore different ways to solve it, and develop the strongest ideas into compelling, manufacturable display designs. You should be able to think visually and physically: how a product is merchandised, how a shopper interacts with it, how something looks, how it goes together, and ultimately how it gets made.
As part of our design team, you’ll work cross-functionally with sales, creative, customers, and manufacturing partners to move ideas from early concept through production.
What You'll Do
Develop creative concepts for retail displays, fixtures, and merchandising solutions across a variety of brands, products, materials, and retail environments
Turn customer objectives, rough ideas, sketches, or open-ended challenges into thoughtful designs
Create sketches, 3D CAD models, and compelling renderings that communicate both the visual concept and how it works
Apply customer branding, packaging, products, materials, and finishes to create realistic presentations of concepts
Design with manufacturing in mind, considering materials, production processes, cost, assembly, shipping, installation, durability, and the realities of the retail environment
Create drawings, models, prototypes, and specifications that allow internal teams and manufacturing partners to evaluate and further develop a design
Collaborate with engineering, fabrication, and manufacturing partners to resolve technical details and move designs toward production
Assist in prototyping, testing, evaluating, and improving designs based on what you learn
Respond quickly and thoughtfully to customer feedback, changing requirements, material limitations, and production challenges
Contribute ideas proactively, not just when a project or task is assigned
What We're Looking For
Professional industrial design experience involving physical products, retail displays, fixtures, branded environments, or similar manufactured products
Strong industrial design fundamentals, including form, proportion, materials, usability, and brand translation
Strong concept development and visualization skills
Proficiency with 3D CAD and rendering/visualization tools; experience with SolidWorks, Rhino, KeyShot, Adobe Creative Suite, or comparable platforms
Working knowledge of design for manufacturing and an understanding of how materials and manufacturing processes influence design
Ability to develop clear drawings, models, specifications, and other documentation needed to communicate design intent
Experience collaborating with engineers, fabricators, manufacturers, or production vendors
A portfolio demonstrating both creative thinking and the ability to turn ideas into real, manufacturable products
Especially Valuable
5 years with direct experience designing POP/POS displays, retail fixtures, or merchandising systems
Experience designing across multiple materials and manufacturing processes, including plastics, metal, wood, corrugated, or other sheet materials
Experience designing both temporary and permanent retail displays
Strong photorealistic rendering and visualization skills
Hands-on prototyping or fabrication experience
Experience designing for highly branded consumer products
Understanding of packaging, shipping, assembly, and retail installation considerations
Why iSEE
At iSEE, you won’t be one designer buried inside a large design department. You’ll have a meaningful voice in what we create and how we solve problems.
Our work spans everything from simple shelf solutions to permanent fixtures, temporary displays, floor-standing units, cooler merchandising, and entirely new display concepts. That variety means you’ll work across different materials, manufacturing processes, brands, products, and design challenges.
You’ll collaborate directly with the people developing ideas, selling them, managing projects, and manufacturing the finished product. You’ll have the opportunity to follow your work through the entire process — from an early sketch or conversation to a concept, prototype, production run, and ultimately a display sitting in a store.
Most importantly, we’re looking for someone who wants to help build our creative capability, not simply fill a design seat. As you learn our business, our customers, and the way we approach problems, we want you to become another source of ideas — someone who helps challenge assumptions, explore what’s possible, and shape what we create next.
To Apply: Please submit your resume and portfolio demonstrating your design process, concept development, visualization skills, and examples of work that progressed from idea toward production