Retail Visual Experience Manager

Cottonwood Heights, UT - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 3 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

At Backcountry our mission is to connect people to their passions. Our four online storesBackcountry Competitive Cyclist MotoSport and SteepandCheapaim to supply our customers with the gear knowledge and inspiration necessary to get out there and chase down lifes greatest moments. We do this by providing the biggest and best assortment of premium outdoor products superior shopping experience personalized Gearhead expertise lightning-fast and accurate fulfillment and inspirational informative and community-centered content.

Backcountry is looking for aRetail Visual Experience Manager who can build the plan and get on the floor to make it real. Youll own the end-to-end visual merchandising program across our store fleet serving as the connective tissue between Creative Marketing and Merchandising teams and the store teams executing the brand every day. If you love the outdoors sweat the details of a great in-store moment and get excited about using AI to work smarter and faster this role was built for you. This position reports to the Sr. Visual Merchandising Manager.

What you get to do:

Lead the retail visual and marketing calendar aligning with Marketing Creative and Product teams around key brand and business priorities and translate those strategies into clear actionable visual plans for stores.
Partner with Creative and Design teams to brief concept and review seasonal visual packages and in-store assets that are brand-right seasonally relevant and commercially focused.
Own the concept and content calendar for retail marketing emails ensuring alignment with floor sets product priorities and in-store storytelling.
Serve as the primary visual merchandising partner to store and field leaders supporting product placement shop layouts and display execution to drive sales and protect brand standards.
Own and distribute a weekly retail visual newsletter and regular toolkits that guide stores on upcoming floor sets campaigns and visual priorities.
Lead new store openings remodels seasonal floor-set prototypes and store walkthroughs overseeing all signage collateral production and supplies to ensure consistent execution across all locations.
Manage the visual merchandising budget for signage fixtures props and collateral recommending solutions that balance brand impact with cost efficiency.
Use AI content copy and image tools (such as Claude Adobe Firefly or Canva AI) to accelerate briefing newsletter creation visual concepting and workflow management and actively identify new tools and workflows to raise team output and share learnings across Creative and Marketing.

What you bring:

Bachelors degree in Marketing Design Visual Merchandising or a related field or an equivalent combination of education and hands-on multi-store retail visual experience.
Proven track record concepting and executing visually compelling brand-right displays and in-store experiences that drive sell-through with prior experience supporting visual merchandising across multiple stores or regions.
Experience working cross-functionally with Creative Marketing and Field teams to bring a visual strategy to life; background in outdoor action sports or lifestyle retail preferred.
Strong command of Adobe Creative Suite; proficiency in Canva AI design tools or equivalent platforms is highly valued.
Comfort using AI writing and productivity tools in daily workflows you dont need to be a prompt engineer but you should be curious and willing to experiment.
Excellent communicator: clear in writing confident with visual feedback and effective with both field teams and senior stakeholders.
Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple projects timelines and priorities simultaneously without dropping the details.
A builders mindset you thrive with real ownership move between big-picture planning and floor-level execution and embrace technology as a force multiplier not a threat to craft.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These toolsassistour recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions areultimately madeby humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

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We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

Required Experience:

Manager

What you get to do:

Lead the retail visual and marketing calendar aligning with Marketing Creative and Product teams around key brand and business priorities and translate those strategies into clear actionable visual plans for stores.
Partner with Creative and Design teams to brief concept and review seasonal visual packages and in-store assets that are brand-right seasonally relevant and commercially focused.
Own the concept and content calendar for retail marketing emails ensuring alignment with floor sets product priorities and in-store storytelling.
Serve as the primary visual merchandising partner to store and field leaders supporting product placement shop layouts and display execution to drive sales and protect brand standards.
Own and distribute a weekly retail visual newsletter and regular toolkits that guide stores on upcoming floor sets campaigns and visual priorities.
Lead new store openings remodels seasonal floor-set prototypes and store walkthroughs overseeing all signage collateral production and supplies to ensure consistent execution across all locations.
Manage the visual merchandising budget for signage fixtures props and collateral recommending solutions that balance brand impact with cost efficiency.
Use AI content copy and image tools (such as Claude Adobe Firefly or Canva AI) to accelerate briefing newsletter creation visual concepting and workflow management and actively identify new tools and workflows to raise team output and share learnings across Creative and Marketing.

What you bring:

Bachelors degree in Marketing Design Visual Merchandising or a related field or an equivalent combination of education and hands-on multi-store retail visual experience.
Proven track record concepting and executing visually compelling brand-right displays and in-store experiences that drive sell-through with prior experience supporting visual merchandising across multiple stores or regions.
Experience working cross-functionally with Creative Marketing and Field teams to bring a visual strategy to life; background in outdoor action sports or lifestyle retail preferred.
Strong command of Adobe Creative Suite; proficiency in Canva AI design tools or equivalent platforms is highly valued.
Comfort using AI writing and productivity tools in daily workflows you dont need to be a prompt engineer but you should be curious and willing to experiment.
Excellent communicator: clear in writing confident with visual feedback and effective with both field teams and senior stakeholders.
Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple projects timelines and priorities simultaneously without dropping the details.
A builders mindset you thrive with real ownership move between big-picture planning and floor-level execution and embrace technology as a force multiplier not a threat to craft.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

Required Experience:

Manager