Our Opportunity
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.
Your Role
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
- Collaborate with your co-workers to produce and encourage inventive, thoughtful, on-brand work.
- 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 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
- Tracks time weekly and flags any misalignment in assigned hours
- Meets deadlines without question or communicates concerns early with a solutions-oriented mindset
- Understands impacts of misuse of hours or misalignment of scope
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate design concepts, provide constructive feedback, and work effectively in a team environment.
- Excited to work with new people and work together to bring forward the best ideas
- Works well independently and with a team and knows when to escalate issues to creative leadership
- Develops and maintains relationships outside of creative to increase ideation and collaboration across departments
- Brings fresh thinking, new ideas and creative solutions to the table
- Follows trends in and out of the industry to push the boundaries
- Knows when to let and idea go and move forward with an agree upon direction
- Knows how to ideate within strategic guardrails
- Accepts critique and feedback with grace and integrates it into the work
- Demonstrated ability to think both conceptually and realistically
- Committed to an open, energetic and inclusive environment
- Maintains calm under pressure
- Stays positive when a project gets challenging
- Comes with solutions to solve problems
- Offers mentorship, guidance, skills development and coaching to other team members
- Communicate their ideas clearly, confidently and comprehensively through high-quality outputs
- Sets the standards for quality of environmental design for the agencies
- Comfortable sharing work internally and externally at all stages
- Presents work with confidence and enthusiasm
- Communicates a clear message through a combination of of visuals and copy
- Uses high-quality visuals–mood boards, sketches, illustrations, elevations, white models, renders, floor plans, and a variety of approaches– to convey the message beautifully and succinctly
- 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
- Understanding of the 3D world and what makes up environmental design: textures, materials, architecture, fabrication, rentals, furniture, graphics, styling, decor, props, lighting, etc.
- Strong understanding of flow, floor plans and space allocation for experiences
- Clear understanding of 2D design and its integration into experiences
- Provide direct support in concept design and development
- Understanding of the 3D world and what makes up environmental design: textures, materials, architecture, fabrication, rentals, furniture, graphics, styling, decor, props, lighting, etc.
- Collaboration with Integrated Production, Graphics Production, Live Production and Fabrication
- Strong understanding of how things get built and produced
- Strong understanding of budgets and budgetary limitations
- Strong understanding of materials and standard sizing
- Works with CAD and production to ensure floor plans are accurate and achieve fire marshall approvals
- Excellent design skills and taste
- Knows how to flex into a client-based aesthetic
- Can design to match the level of client expectations
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 Range
Salary is dependent on a variety of factors including (but not limited to) experience, skills, and location.
Who We Are
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.
You read that “employee-owned” part, right? You heard us correctly. You work hard, she works hard, we all work hard… we all succeed and reap the rewards. We have an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – providing our employees with an ownership interest. We thought you would want to know that. In fact, there is a lot more you would want to know about us, like our FTO policy (no more “accruing” time off), our employer matching 401(k) plan (no vesting period), and our low contribution healthcare option. But we are getting ahead of ourselves here, let’s talk about this exciting opportunity first and we can fill you in on our perks & benefits later.
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.
