Area Visual Merchandiser - West Coast, Los Angeles

Acne Studios is a progressive luxury house and through collaboration and curiosity, we set high aspirations and strive for excellence. We value everyone’s contribution and embrace feedback to develop ourselves and others. We aim to minimize our environmental impact across all our operations and to address societal challenges in the way we conduct our business.

As Full time Area Visual Merchandiser - West Coast, Los Angeles

This role involves regular field work and travel to support multiple store teams in maintaining visual merchandising standards, ensuring team literacy, and executing VM guidelines, with ongoing reporting to the Head of Visual. It requires close collaboration with store teams to effectively roll out all visual communications and directives. Additionally, the role supports the coordination of Brand Experience projects—including window displays, in-store installations, and seasonal launches—in partnership with the Head of Visual. A consistent monthly store visit schedule is maintained to prioritize VM rotations, as approved by leadership.

Culture Of Collaboration

We firmly believe that when you feel supported, included, and trusted, it enables you to enjoy your work and thrive in it. You will be a part of a team of colleagues with diverse roles and backgrounds, each with their unique skills and experiences.

What You Will Do

As Full time Area Visual Merchandiser:

• Directly partner with Store Managers to review store presentation correlation with local market trends and store specific sale trends, providing professional VM actions and feedback to improve store performance
• Responsible for creating VM planning for their stores to present to Head of Visual
• Support Events + PR team for VIC show events, private client events
• Assistance in preparation of local market VM recap reports as well as PDFs of store pictures after Monthly Guideline store update/rotation
• Travel as needed to support stores, closely working with Retail + CS Retail + Retail Development teams to prepare VM plan, capacity files, initial merchandising proposals, order props, store staff VM training, all to ensure a high quality store opening

Who You Are

You are a trained and experienced visual merchandiser. You have high aspirations and focus on details that create substantial impact. You enjoy working as a team, but you are also comfortable working independently and effective time management. You embrace feedback to develop yourself and others. You are curious and thrive in a dynamic environment. Cooperation, respect, and clear communication are important, along with your ambition to learn and grow. If these qualities speak to you, we would love to have you on our team.

Specific personal qualities for this role:

• Strong Visual & Aesthetic SensibilityA refined eye for visual merchandising, store layout planning, and brand story-telling, with the ability to translate global guidelines into locally relevant, commercially impactful displays.
• Commercial AwarenessUnderstanding the key role visual merchandising plays in your market's business; able to analyze sales data and local market trends to inform VM decisions that support business goals.
• Leadership & Team DevelopmentProven ability to lead, mentor, and elevate store teams’ VM capabilities, fostering a culture of excellence and ownership at store level.
• Clear & Effective CommunicationAble to deliver VM guidelines, feedback, and training clearly and constructively to various store teams, ensuring alignment and consistency across all stores.
• Project & Time ManagementSkilled at managing multiple priorities, deadlines, and store calendars, including store openings, seasonal launches, and visual guideline updates.
• Adaptability & Problem-SolvingFlexible and solution-oriented when faced with unexpected challenges, from store constraints to product delays or changing directives. Effective time management and self-starting mentality and able to accomplish tasks independently on site.
• Collaboration & Cross-Functional PartnershipWorks effectively with Visual HQ, Retail, PR/Events, and Wholesale teams to execute cohesive brand experiences.
• Attention to DetailMaintains high standards for execution, from fixture alignment to lighting, signage, VM standards, and overall store feeling and presentation.
• Field-Based InitiativeComfortable with frequent travel and hands-on support in stores; proactive in identifying opportunities for improvement and acting on them.
• Digital Fluency Proficient in using digital tools to document, report, and present VM updates (e.g., creating PDF recaps, capacity files, and visual planning documents).

Specific experience and knowledge for this role:

• Visual Merchandising ExpertiseStrong understanding of VM principles and brand presentation.
• Leadership & Team CoachingAbility to train and guide store teams in VM execution.
• Project & Time ManagementSkilled in planning and delivering multiple visual projects on schedule.
• Commercial & Analytical ThinkingAble to link visual strategy with sales performance and market trends.
• Communication & Cross-Functional CollaborationClear communicator who works well with retail, HQ, and events teams.
• Fluent in English

What matters most to us is not whether you master all the listed knowledge and skills. We are dedicated to recognizing the potential in each individual. We embrace diversity of people as well as ideas and viewpoints and encourage everyone's individual expression of their own identity.