About Us
Since 1977, LAGOS has been a pioneer in fine jewelry, combining precious materials and expert craftsmanship to offer modern, iconic styles for women and men. Founded by master jeweler, Steven Lagos, the brand’s signature Caviar collections offer bold, unique styles that encourage personal expression. Today, Steven’s daughter. Kate Lagos serves as Associate Designer and Brand Stylist, continuing the tradition of excellence and creativity that defines the brand’s iconic Caviar collections.
About You
You are a highly-creative yet execution-focused visual design professional with a refined luxury sensibility and a deep understanding or how beautiful ideas are brought to life in retail. You are equally comfortable concepting bold, eye-catching visuals and managing the details of production, fabrication, and rollout across multiple locations. You bring curiosity, precision, and pride to your work continually seeking new ways to elevate the customer experience, refine execution, and strengthen brand consistency.
Position Summary
The Visual Display Designer is responsible for creating elevated, impactful visual environments that bring the brand’s luxury storytelling to life across retail windows, vitrines, and in-store focal points. This role blends creative concept development with hands-on production execution, requiring a designer who can balance innovation with practicality. Partnering closely with cross-functional teams and global vendors, the Visual Display Designer oversees display programs from initial concept through fabrication, budgeting, and installation ensuring every touchpoint reflects LAGOS’ craftsmanship, quality, and brand standards while delivering scalable solutions across a diverse retail fleet.
Essential Functions
- Conceptualize, design, and execute luxury visual display concepts for windows, vitrines, and instore focal points across retail and wholesale locations
- Translate brand storytelling, seasonal direction, and product narratives into compelling, executable visual presentations
- Develop creative assets including mood boards, sketches, renderings, and detailed design presentations
- Manage the full display lifecycle from concept through fabrication, production, shipping, installation, and post-launch evaluation
- Collaborate with New Product Development and cross-functional partners to ensure displays meet aesthetic, functional, and production requirements
- Partner with domestic and overseas vendors to prototype, sample, and produce high-quality display elements at scale
- Select materials and fabrication methods with consideration for durability, cost efficiency, timelines, and visual impact
- Own and manage display production calendars and budgets, tracking costs and maintaining alignment with financial targets
- Ensure all displays align with LAGOS brand standards, luxury positioning, and merchandising strategy
- Adapt display designs for various retail formats, window sizes, and regional needs while maintaining visual consistency
- Prepare and distribute clear production specifications, install guides, and visual direction for
- internal teams and store partners
- Coordinate with Retail and Operations teams to support seamless, on-time installations
- Conduct post-installation reviews to assess performance, durability, and opportunities for refinement or improvement
- Stay informed on materials, fabrication techniques, and display trends to continuously elevate creative output and execution
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Merchandising, Marketing, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Proven experience in luxury visual display design, with 5-8 years in retail, jewelry, fashion, or premium consumer brands.
- Strong creative and conceptual skills, with the ability to translate brand storytelling and product strategy into compelling visual environments.
- Deep production and fabrication knowledge, including materials, finishes, durability requirements, and manufacturing methods.
- Demonstrated success managing oversees vendors, including established relationships with global manufacturers and familiarity with international production workflows.
- Ability to balance creativity with practicality, designing ambitious concepts that meet budget, timeline, scalability, and operational constraints.
- Excellent project management skills, with experience owning production calendars, budgets, and multi-location rollouts.
- Cross-functional collaborator, comfortable partnering with marketing, merchandising, product development, retail, and operating teams.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, capable of clearly articulating concepts, specifications, and execution guidelines.
- Technical proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite; 3D rendering or prototyping skills strongly preferred
- Detail-oriented and solutions-focus mindset, with a commitment to quality, consistency, and continuous improvement.
Core Competencies
To thrive and grow with our company, you must possess and continue to develop the following competencies:
- Customer Focus: Ensuring that the internal and external customer’s perspective is a driving force behind strategic priorities, business decisions, organizational processes, and individual activities; crafting and implementing service practices that meet customers’ needs; promoting and operationalizing customer service as a value.
- Driving for Results: Setting high goals for personal and group accomplishment; using measurement methods to monitor progress towards goals; tenaciously working to meet or exceed goals while deriving satisfaction from that achievement and continuous improvement.
- Building Trusting Relationships: Using appropriate interpersonal styles to establish relationships with customers and internal partners; interacting with others in a way that promotes openness and trust and gives them confidence in one’s intentions.
- Adaptability: Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment; adjusting effectively to change by exploring the benefits, trying new approaches, and collaborating with others to make change successful.
- Growth Orientation: Harnessing technical expertise, continuous learning, and commitment to improvement to optimize processes, address challenges, and achieve impactful results.
Equal Employment Opportunities
LAGOS is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, or citizenship. We are committed to a diverse workforce. We value all employees’ talents and support an environment that is inclusive and respectful.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not intended to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
