Visual Merchandising Manager

Compensation: $95,000.00-$120,000.00

• Define and codify Bubble’s global visual merchandising identity, ensuring alignment with brand creative, packaging, and marketing aesthetics.
• Create visual guidelines and toolkits that articulate Bubble’s point of view across fixtures, materials, finishes, and storytelling elements.
• Build out concept boards and visual principles to inform future fixture design, point-of-sale assets, and retail displays.

Retail Environment Design & Execution

• Design and develop visual merchandising displays for key global projects, including but not limited to:

            o   Sephora Middle East gondola (core brand storytelling, modular display solutions)

            o   Walmart skincare fixture & cap rollout

            o   Grocery retail entry & cap displays

            o   New distribution doors and shelf system upgrades

• Partner with the Visual Merchandising Project Manager to refine and finalize fixture designs, ensuring feasibility, budget adherence, and compliance with retailer requirements.
• Works directly with vendors to provide creative direction and design files (renders, mockups, visual boards) for vendor production and installation teams.

Cross-Functional Creative Collaboration

• Collaborate with the Creative & Marketing Operations Manager, Supply Chain, and Retail Operations to manage project deliverables and timelines.
• Align with broader brand creative direction and campaign visuals to ensure cohesive storytelling across retail, social, and digital touchpoints.
• Support packaging, retail marketing, and campaign teams with environmental visuals and physical brand expression as needed.

Brand Experience & Event Support

• Lead creative design and visual execution for large-scale experiential and brand identity moments including:

              o   Ulta Field Leadership Conference

              o   American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) Conference Additional brand or retail events showcasing Bubble’s innovation and dermatologist-developed positioning.

Documentation & Future Readiness

• Create design decks and visual standards that can scale globally and serve as evergreen reference for future retail rollouts.
• Support development of retailer-specific VM playbooks (materials, finishes, lighting, messaging hierarchy, etc.).

Project Management & Operational Execution

• End to end oversight of VM launches to ensure 100% OTIF
• Ensure operational execution through timeline management and risk elevation
• Manages project kickoffs to ensure they are clear and complete and aligns operations teams on item codes, UPC/GTINs, filled or unfilled status, and provides clear direction to supply chain on display assortment and quantities
• Manages master project tracker and master timelines

Role Scope & Collaboration

• Partners closely with: Visual Merchandising Project Manager; Creative & Marketing Operations Manager; Brand Creative; Commercial team, Retail Operations, Supply Chain
• End to end oversight: Manages Visual Merchandise launches from conception through to in-store
• Focus: Conceptual and strategic creative leadership for retail and experiential environments