Global Retail Experience Creative Designer

Marimekko is a Finnish lifestyle design company renowned for its original prints and colors. The companys product portfolio includes high-quality clothing bags and accessories as well as home décor items ranging from textiles to tableware. When Marimekko was founded in 1951 its unparalleled printed fabrics gave it a strong and unique 2025 the companys net sales totaled EUR 190 million and comparable operating profit margin was 17.1 percent. Globally there are over 170 Marimekko stores and online store serves customers in 39 countries. The key markets are Northern Europe the Asia-Pacific region and North America. The Group employs about 490 people. The companys share is quoted on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd.

We are looking for a creative and ambitious

GLOBAL RETAIL EXPERIENCE CREATIVE DESIGNER

to join our Retail Experience team based in Helsinki and Stockholm.

The Retail Experience team is responsible for ensuring a global consistent and cohesive Marimekko brand and retail experience in all offline touchpoints by steering direction and creating guidelines for conceptual store design in-store campaign Pop Up and window design and Visual merchandising. As a part of the Global Marketing and PR department the Retail Experience team works in close collaboration with many company functions including design sales and the creative concept function.

As our Global Retail Experience Creative Designer your main responsibility is to ensure the global store campaign designs and other spatial creative concept designs that caters to global own retail stores partner stores and wholesale.

This is a full-time fixed-term parental leave cover from 10.08.2026 19.08.2027 in which you will report to Marimekkos Global Retail Experience Manager and be based in Stockholm Sweden.

Main responsibilities:

• Following the high-level campaign concept & visuality responsible for the creative window and in-store set design of 360 omnichannel seasonal campaigns.
• Responsible for creating and implementing the concept framework and creative set design for all seasonal (and other) in-store campaign activations and in-store consumer facing events for global own retail stores wholesale and partner stores.
• Responsible for the creative design and implementation of the seasonal pop-up experience that caters to global retail wholesale and partners.
• Responsible for the creative campaign/concept designs related to innovation works and other growth projects for retail.
• Project manage projects related to creative in-store concepts windows & campaigns and act as main contact towards both internal and external partners on related matters.

In order to succeed in the role you have:

• A proven professional Visual Merchandiser experience minimum 5 years
• Previous experience working from a global position in visual merchandising campaign set-up design or similar designer role catering to implementing global retail experience
• A proven track record in creating visual presentations designs and display mock ups working with suitable tools (e.g. Sketch-Up Adobe creative suit Power point)
• The ability to see the big picture and work with an international mindset
• Strong experience and understanding of the fashion and design industries
• A results-driven and commercial mindset
• Creative ideas and the ability to communicate these ideas both verbally and visually to others
• Ability to work cross functionally with other key stakeholders
• Strong organizational skills
• Fluency In English both verbal and written
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

At Marimekko we encourage people to be themselves and value diversity. We believe in fairness and doing things together using common sense and finding joy in our work. If you connect with these values and have the right background we might be able to offer you a unique opportunity to work in an exciting international environment with one of the most iconic lifestyle brands.

If all this sparks your interest and you feel like you are the one we are looking for please send your application including your CV and cover letter with salary expectation via our career site at We will start the interviews already during the application period so please let us hear from you as soon as possible but no later than on 10.05.2026. For more information about the role please contact Jennie Wahlström Global Retail Experience Manager by email:

Marimekkos culture and working environment are founded on equality inclusion and cherishing diversity. Marimekko welcomes and encourages everyone regardless of their national origin ethnicity sexual orientation gender identity disability religion or other personal characteristic to apply. Recruitment is always based on business need and the candidates are evaluated on relevant knowledge skills and experience as well as motivation. Marimekko is ranked as the 7th Most Attractive Employer in Finland amongst business professionals according to Universums ranking. Marimekko is also the 5th most attractive employer in Finland amongst business students. Read more about the Universums ranking on their website.