Jr. Retail & Space Designer

Role: Jr. Retail & Space Designer

Location: Bengaluru

Reporting to: Design Lead/Manager

Team name: Creative, Marketing

About the Team and the Role

The Creative, Marketing team at Ather is responsible for shaping how people experience Ather in the physical world, through our experience centers, exhibitions, events, and installations.

This role is for a Junior Retail & Space Designer with 1-2 years of industry experience who will apply their foundation in design thinking and spatial composition to real-world contexts in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to new spatial concepts, layouts, and experience flows while translating stakeholder inputs into coherent spatial ideas.
• Support design tasks across concept development, visualisation, and detailing including composition, lighting, and materials.
• Collaborate with marketing, sales, and expansion teams to refine concepts and maintain design consistency in retail rollouts.
• Work closely with external vendors, fabricators, and architectural agencies to translate designs into built outcomes.
• Create space-related presentations from early conceptual storytelling to polished stakeholder-ready documents.
• Adapt designs to diverse site conditions ensuring every Ather environment aligns with established design intent and quality.
• Conduct site visits and ground assessments to resolve practical challenges and ensure builds align with drawings.
• Manage inputs from retail expansion teams and external stakeholders while protecting design integrity and craftsmanship standards.

Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in space design, interior design, architecture, or an equivalent field.
• 1-2 years of industry experience in spatial, retail, interior, exhibition, or experience design.

Must Have Competencies

• Utilize Sketchup, AutoCAD, Rhino, or Blender to translate design intent into civil and architectural drawings.
• Apply systems-oriented thinking to break down complex ideas into intuitive spatial flows and technology narratives.
• Utilize knowledge of materials and fabrication techniques to ensure design decisions support practical buildability.
• Apply contextual and sensitive design awareness to ensure physical spaces feel grounded in culture and narrative.

Good to Have Competencies

• Utilize 3D rendering, photography, or videography skills to enhance spatial design documentation.
• Apply awareness of current architectural trends and brand experience design to physical installations.
• Utilize Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to support spatial visualizations and presentations
• Apply emotion-led thinking to shape spatial experiences around specific reactions and intentions.

Want to know more?

At Ather, we’ve built India’s first intelligent scooter, from scratch. Based on the philosophy of clean design and smart technology, we are transforming the urban commute experience. We are expanding in India, and in the coming years, we look forward to scaling up and launching more products globally. Today, our product offerings include the Ather 450X, 450S, 450 Apex, and Rizta. Beyond the product, we are also setting up an extensive charging network and re-imagining end-to-end ownership experience. To know more, check out our Careers site and our Substack.

Be You, With Us

The Ather story doesn't write itself - our people do. We believe everyone is equal, but not the same. Diversity is our strength, and building an inclusive and equitable workplace begins with acknowledging and embracing our differences. We are an equal opportunity employer, and our team reflects a wide range of identities, experiences, and perspectives - all united by a shared passion to shape the Ather journey.