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Freelance Environmental Designer (3D)
Refinery29
New York, NY, United States
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About Refinery29:
Refinery29 is the leading digital-media and entertainment company focused on women with a global audience footprint of 550 million across all platforms. Our mission is to be a catalyst for women to feel, see, and claim their power by providing optimistic and diverse creativity, storytelling, and points of view. We deliver style and substance to an audience that's highly engaged across a variety of devices and destinations, from original video and editorial features, to live experiences and social storytelling. Please visit www.refinery29.com, www.refinery29.uk, and www.refinery29.de for more information and to browse content.
About the role:
This is the opportunity to be a part of Refinery29’s Experiential Team that produces, creates, ideates, and executes award-winning experiences and destinations for our tentpoles, brand partners and internal events. We want to harness your skills, ambition, and dreams as a multi-faceted, creative thinker and unleash your power to bring the Refinery29 brand to life across multiple touch-points physically and digitally. This role reports into the Design Director of Experiential Design Team and works with a sizable team of talented professionals on a per-project basis.
PLEASE NOTE THIS POSITION IS FOR A 3D ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGNER WITH EXPERTISE IN CONCEPTUALIZING, BUILDING AND OVERSEEING THE FABRICATION OF BUILT ENVIRONMENTS. THIS IS NOT A GRAPHIC DESIGN POSITION.
What makes an R29er?
• You have commitment and passion for the mission of R29 to be a catalyst for women to feel, see, and claim their power and realize their infinite potential. You are a magic maker who sees possibility and turns dreams into reality.
What you’ll do:
• You will be a part of the Experiential design team tasked with contributing to our ever-growing experiential offerings.
• You will be responsible for leading the environmental and design aspects on assigned projects including creative conception, floorplans, renderings, environmental graphics, construction documentation, lighting, sound, video, staging and more.
• You will have an opportunity to be exposed to and potentially staffed on 29Rooms, the physical manifestation of the Refinery29 brand.
• In addition to internal events, such as 29Rooms, you will have exposure to our co-branded and white label activations, such as concerts, pop-ups, runway shows, performances, stunts, premieres, launch events, festivals, parties and more.
What you have:
• Overall expertise in environmental design - the trends, issues and current context as well as the gusto to set new boundaries within the industry.
• Working experience within the marketing and experiential design industries.
• Strong technical understanding of the environmental and graphic design, production and build processes.
• A passion for culture, trends, audiences and relevant brands; an interest in creating the future of storytelling through design, creativity, inspiration, and our mission and values. A commitment to nurture and embody inspiration and a desire to push the boundaries in environmental design.
• A proven track record and work experience that has honed your ability to go from conception to execution for a brand in all aspects of design.
• Expertise in various sizes and formats of events, design practices, management of vendor relationships.
• Experience in maintaining tight timelines within distinct budget parameters.
• Strong interest in managing and mentoring other team members.
• Desire to be a part of a strong, empowered and positive team dynamic.
• Personality to work seamlessly with production, tech and creative teams within the Experiential Department, as well as other departments within the company (content, editorial, etc.).
• Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite, SketchUp, AutoCAD, Vectorworks, Keynote. Execution knowledge from ideation through construction documentation.
• A strong portfolio that demonstrates wild imagination as well as practical application of skills in art direction, custom fabrication, graphics, prop styling, etc.
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Industrial Design, Scenic Design, Architecture, Interior Design or related field plus 2+ years working experience in a design-related role.
• Inventive ways to integrate sustainability, recycling, waste management and future use of materials post events.