3D Experience Designer

3D Experience Designer GPJ is hiring a 3D Experience Designer to join our growing team. This role is hybrid, requiring you to report on-site to our Boston office location a minimum of 2 days per week.
As a 3D Experience Designer, you are a creative who goes beyond mere architecture, focusing instead on crafting human-centered journeys through environments that truly captivate audiences and inspire them to take action. Your passion lies in conceptualizing and designing one-of-a-kind, authentic experiences.
Through an innovative approach to the program experience this role will assist in journey and activation ideation, leading space allocation and floor planning with strategic and practical flow, and visualize the space and experience through sketching, CAD floor plans, bubble diagrams, mood imagery, photo comps and renders.
In this role you will/are:
An agency leader in new techniques and design applications.
Lead the environmental creative team in new techniques and set the highest standard for all designers to follow
Create high quality sketches, renders, mock-ups, and designs
Excellent at managing time and meeting tight deadlines, while maintaining design excellence
Participate in planning and strategy sessions
Comfortable leading the experience design team on assigned projects, overseeing other designers' work and ensure execution is consistent and of the highest quality
Work closely with Creative Directors to execute on strategic design solutions
Approach design with thoughtfulness and understanding of how it impacts the larger business, bringing to like multiple concepts and solutions to meet client objectives.
Lead the agency in collaboration with production and fabrication to solve design and budgetary challenges while maintaining design and brand integrity.
Your Skills
Mastery of 3DS Max, Adobe Creative Suite and Google Suite
Passion for learning new software and tracking emerging trends such as AI-based software (City planning, Rhino, Firefly, Gemini, Etc.)
Works on multiple projects simultaneously and successfully with full accountability, maintaining quality at all times
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate design concepts, provide constructive feedback, and work effectively in a team environment.
Brings fresh thinking, new ideas and creative solutions to the table
Committed to an open, energetic and inclusive environment
Communicate their ideas clearly, confidently and comprehensively through high-quality outputs
Understands brand guidelines and visual identities and knows how to design to those standards and flag when they are misaligned
Can lead a team or contribute independently, knows when to escalate issues to creative leadership any roadblocks or scope inconsistencies
Expert understanding of experience and environmental design principles and apply it to the work
Collaboration with Integrated Production, Graphics Production, Live Production and Fabrication
Excellent design skills and taste
Your Competencies
Urgency – Decisive, responsive, and fast acting you achieve goals quickly both when working on your own and in collaboration with others. You demonstrate adaptability and agility when making on-the-spot decisions never sacrificing quality or work interactions. Cool under pressure. For the sake of time, you are able to eliminate unnecessary steps and use network resources to aid in project completion.
Communication – At all levels, you easily convey and sell your ideas, and can articulate an idea with brevity during a brainstorm or client presentation. You express yourself clearly when collaborating and presenting, maintaining a positive image for GPJ both internally and externally. You understand the value of a well-turned phrase and a well-told story.
Creative Innovation – You are an idea-driven creative: someone who thinks about the big picture. Drive, develop, or support new and improved creative methods, products, procedures or technologies. Propels innovation by implementing the latest interactive technology in your storytelling. Devise new approaches to make improvements or solve problems. You are an innovative storyteller who is constantly challenging themselves to come up with ideas that are on strategy, transformative, and authentic to the client's brand.
Flexible – Easily move on to new tasks with little to no notice. Put personal preferences aside and switch to a different strategy, form of communication or other objective without panicking. Maintain composure when deadlines move up and priorities shift. Keeps an open mind.
Prioritization/Organization – Properly allocate time and resources so that jobs are completed within a defined timeframe; within budget and managing all resources (Full-time and freelance) as effectively as possible. Establishing a reasonable timeline for completion when no concrete date is given.
Your Experience
Experience & Education
6-8 years' of creative experience in an agency environment.
Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Advertising, Visual Communication or related course of study.
Travel & Mobility
Ability to travel 10%
Ability to work irregular hours in addition to normal business hours, to include nights, weekends and holidays as needed
Your Impact
In your role, you will have influence and responsibility over:
Environmental Design
Attendee Journeys
Creative ideas and solutions to complex problems
Working within budget constraints
Salary is dependent on a variety of factors including (but not limited to) experience, skills, and location.
GPJ is the world leader in experiential marketing. Our 29 global offices are filled with fearless people dreaming up ideas that are transforming industries and bringing the most respected brands to life in powerfully, exciting ways. We are a part of the Project Worldwide family. An independent, employee-owned global network of complementary, wholly owned agencies.
GPJ is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected class. In addition to federal law requirements, GPJ complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. GPJ expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on any protected class.