3D Design Director - Experiential Marketing Agency

As 3D Design Director you will lead the discipline for large scale projects/event programmes and collaborate with other 3D Design Directors to lead the discipline within the creative department. Inspiring and managing the team to create designs that change audience behaviour and experimenting with new techniques that will engage our audiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver and inspire award-winning work with your team, influencing audiences through ideas and creativity.
• Lead by example to consistently inspire the development of world-class, pioneering ideas and experiences.
• Lead the discipline from the initial design concept through to delivery.
• Consistently deliver successful solutions and high-quality work and understand how to deliver the best for client’s objectives and budgets.
• Take advantage of the strategic input on briefs to immerse within the client’s business, audience, and objectives. Identify, understand their commercial and internal challenges to inspire and deliver effective solutions that consider the holistic needs of the brand.
• Use your experience and knowledge to advise on the time needed and resource skills required to execute design effectively.
• Learn new skills and stay abreast of software developments, and successfully share and apply them to our practices to help improve processes and procedures and be effective with time.
• Continually develop practices and processes to inspire, innovate and harness new thinking.
• Work closely with the Technical Production team to ensure smooth workflow across the lifecycle of a project.
• Develop new AI enabled workflows and implement across the design process.
• Ensure design thinking and craft are of the highest quality across all phases of the project and that the views and concerns of colleagues are understood and addressed.
• Mentor other members of the team, helping them achieve their ambitions, improve, and expand their skills with the ultimate goal of creating the most exciting and inspiring work.
• Ensure your team have clear progression plans and work with the creative leadership to ensure they are being given the opportunities for growth.
• Represent GPJ by connecting with new talent and inspiring the next generation of creatives.

About you

• You are curious and look beyond the immediate ask to develop innovative solutions.
• You have a positive outlook that fosters team camaraderie and collaboration and believe that the best work happens when people with different skills and perspectives work together, actively seeking out this expertise when you spot a gap in a project.
• You communicate with clarity, conviction and persuasiveness tailored to different situations.
• You demonstrate 'active' listening skills in a variety of situations, seeking out others' ideas, are open to them and are able to take action where appropriate.
• You have the ability to consistently deliver a number of successful solutions and high-quality work to clients on time.
• Lead the creation of environmental elements within experiential playbooks for clients, implement and ensure consistency across event programmes and large scale events.
• You understand the marketplace (client and talent) and use this information to inform project and business decisions.
• You are able to build effective relationships, able to understand and respond to the agenda of others and are able to help unlock future client opportunities.
• You think creatively to deliver solutions and solve problems and demonstrate the ability to enhance the client's outcomes.
• You look for opportunities to build the skills and working practices of your team and proactively reach out to your counterparts across the EMEAI region to build stronger working relationships.
• You are able to enhance the reputation of design and the design team both across the wider UK team and other GPJ offices.
• You understand the vision & strategy of GPJ to spot opportunities to support sustainable commercial growth and understand how you and your team are able to positively influence this.

Your Background, Skills & Experience

• Expert knowledge of environmental design with a focus on live experiences.
• Trained in Vectorworks and Twinmotion
• Considerable experience designing conferences and exhibitions for global brands.
• Experience in, and enthusiasm for, designing experiences from brief to delivery and beyond.
• Experience in collaboration across creative disciplines.
• Expert knowledge of design tools and the ability to share this expertise with others.