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This is a hands-on, craft-forward role in a fast-paced environment for a creative who thrives on carrying ideas from start to finish across a wide range of media, including environmental design. The ideal candidate has a genuine passion for retail - trends, shopping behavior, and the physical spaces where people gather - and brings that enthusiasm into every project. This is a unique opportunity to join our internal agency team, whose responsibility is to bring to life innovative and diverse shopping destinations through marketing and activation. Marketing efforts include owned, earned, and paid advertising in support of our centers, event/experiential marketing, placemaking initiatives such as partnering with artists to recast places and spaces, designing window graphics, signage and much more.\nWS is one of the largest privately owned retail developers in the country with more than a hundred properties nationwide. Our mission is to create places where people want to be. 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