Art Director | In-Store Seasonal Experience Marketing

Title : Art Director - In-Store Seasonal Experience Marketing 
Location : Minneapolis, MN (Hybrid - 3 days onsite)
Job Type : Contract (7 Months)
Compensation : $65.00-82.70/hr
Industry: Retail

Please include portfolio link on resume. Ideal candidate will have a strong portfolio demonstrating conceptual excellence and high-quality execution across retail, brand, and campaign work. 

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About the Role
Our client, a leading national big-box retailer headquartered in Minneapolis, is seeking an Art Director to support their seasonal in-store experience marketing campaigns. Known for its trend-forward design sensibility and guest-centric retail experiences, this Fortune 50 company partners with creative talent to bring fresh, culturally relevant concepts to life across hundreds of stores nationwide.
This is a contract opportunity through our staffing firm, placing you directly on the client's internal store experience creative team. The Art Director will partner with in-house creatives to deliver high-level campaign concepts through final execution for seasonal in-store experiences.
Shift Information: Must be local to the Minneapolis area and able to work onsite up to 3 days per week as needed. Job Description
The ideal candidate combines strong conceptual thinking, storytelling, and visual world-building skills with hands-on design capabilities. Photo art direction experience involving product, talent, style, and fashion is a strong plus.
This role requires regular onsite participation for store walkthroughs, prototyping, creative reviews, and collaboration with internal stakeholders. You will concept, design, and art direct projects from high-level theme through final asset delivery, ensuring creative consistency across seasonal campaigns and brand touchpoints.
Key Responsibilities

• Develop high-level creative concepts and seasonal campaign themes
• Translate campaign concepts into marketing deliverables for in-store seasonal campaigns, as well as deliver creative assets for other seasonal brand channels
• Create creative presentations, mood boards, and pre-production decks to communicate campaign vision and execution plans
• Partner with designers, art directors, writers, production teams, producers, creative directors, and marketing teams throughout the creative development process
• Concept, design, and art direct from high-level theme through final asset delivery for production teams
• Ensure creative consistency across seasonal campaigns and brand touchpoints
• Collaborate closely with internal teams and translate feedback into creative solutions that align with business and marketing objectives

Qualifications
Required Qualifications

• Minimum 5–7+ years of professional design and art direction experience
• Proven experience developing and executing seasonal marketing campaigns, experience supporting seasonal marketing initiatives such as Back-to-School, Holiday, or similar campaigns
• Strong portfolio demonstrating conceptual strength and high craft standards in retail, brand, campaign, design, typography, and photo art direction
• Deeply attuned to culture, retail trends and evolving guest behaviors
• Strong design experience seeing work through concept development into post-production
• Experience creating and presenting creative concepts, mood boards, and pre-production materials
• Ability to translate high-level campaign themes into customer-facing marketing assets
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional creative, marketing, and production teams
• Strong visual storytelling, composition, and brand design sensibilities
• Ability to manage multiple projects within seasonal campaigns simultaneously
• Expert knowledge of all Adobe Creative Suite software and the Mac platform
• Must be local to the Minneapolis area and available to work onsite up to 3 days per week

Preferred Qualifications

• Retail and consumer brand experience
• Experience in print design, 3D design, and/or experiential physical space design
• 3D modeling program experience
• Experience supporting seasonal marketing initiatives such as Back-to-School, Holiday, or similar campaigns
• Experience developing creative assets for in-store experiences or digital marketing campaigns
• Experience working within large enterprise brand environments

Benefits
Dahl Consulting is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees that will allow you to choose the best coverage to meet your family’s needs. For details, please review the DAHL Benefits Summary:  How to Apply
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As an equal opportunity employer, Dahl Consulting welcomes candidates of all backgrounds and experiences to apply. If this position sounds like the right opportunity for you, we encourage you to take the next step and connect with us. We look forward to meeting you!

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