Senior Lead Exhibition Experience Designer

This role involves delivering exceptional exhibition and environmental design, mentoring junior team members daily. As a key leader, you'll often lead projects, collaborating with directors and producers to ensure timely, high-quality delivery.

Responsibilities include challenging briefs, developing cutting-edge conceptual solutions, creating comprehensive technical packs with high-quality renders and visuals to sell designs. A progressive mindset towards generative AI and new visualization practices, along with strong communication skills, are essential.

You'll manage material and cost engineering, source finishes, prepare detailed drawings, and conduct site surveys. Additionally, you'll oversee on-site execution, collaborate with contractors, mentor junior designers, and build client relationships while staying current with industry developments.

• Remote Collaboration & Stakeholder Management:
• Proficiently navigate cross-studio remote workflows, proactively seeking feedback, approvals, and guidance from stakeholders while effectively reporting upwards.
• To promote and support the highest possible level of creative excellence achievable within available constraints.
• Responsible for driving and delivering innovative creative responses for new business pitches by not over-capitalising resources.
• Receives and interrogates briefs and develops design solutions to solve key business challenges/obstacles.
• Decides on detail of creative response ie. from conceptual sketches through to high-quality renders.
• Prepares detailed working drawing packages including (but not limited to) plans, elevations, details, FF&E schedules, drawing schedules etc.
• Receives/develops site surveys and prepares site-specific documentation.
• Oversees projects on site and at prototype stages to ensure design intent is being met.
• Develops high-end/cutting-edge conceptual ideas and solutions.
• Curates 'sample' or 'mood' boards to communicate design intent. In-depth consideration of materials and costs according to set budgets.
• Oversees and approves graphics, materials, fittings, furniture, lighting, finishes, decoration, and dressing including physical samples and prints from the wider team(s).
• Provides consistent, enthusiastic, and motivational design leadership to the 3D team if required.
• Works with more autonomy requiring less input from senior designers.
• Promotes, supports, and works with account management and production management as well as other internal or external teams as appropriate.
• Works when required with contractors such as technical directors, structural engineers, lighting designers, and other industry professionals to assist in the design delivery.
• Contributes to and encourages the overall spirit of imagination, entrepreneurial ideas, and creativity.
• Keeps up to date with new developments in the design industry.
• Works to allocated project hours, meets utilisation and billable targets, and completes timesheets accurately and on time.
• Works with resource management to manage workload.
• Has a solid understanding of the financial scope of projects and third-party costs that are affected by 3D and 2D creative outputs.

Advanced ability of Vectorworks 3D modelling and visualisation and detailed documentation in sheets, full Adobe suite, with a key focus on Photoshop, Microsoft Office, AI software.

Excellent drawing skills, including hand sketching to communicate ideas.

A strong understanding of the BCA and other relevant building and safety regulations; knowledge of the wider construction and design industries.

The ability to work under pressure and to deadlines, as well as manage others.

Advanced organisational skills adhering and promoting company protocol and systems.

Excellent communication, negotiation, and management skills.

Teamwork, in order to work with a range of other design streams.

The ability to learn and develop new design and construction techniques based on practice and research, and the ability to deploy them appropriately across projects without overuse or duplication.

The enthusiasm to learn and develop new skills within the AI sphere of visualisation and communication.

• Birthday leave day.
• Parental leave.
• Team Socials.
• Paid Volunteer Company Event.
• Professional Development Opportunities.

We spark the imagination changing the way people think, feel, and act.

We design experiences that create memories, change behaviours, and shape cultures.

We specialise in consultancy, brand destinations, live events, content, and investor communications.

Imagination believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are more than just words, and more than a legal framework or a moral obligation - they are guiding principles that, when acted upon, make us stronger, more innovative, and more creative as an organisation.

We commit to not only significantly increasing our efforts to effect change today, but also to ensure that our efforts will be sustained for the long-term.

We believe the responsibility for a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace ultimately rests with all of us.

We believe that all employees should feel a sense of belonging at Imagination - regardless of their race, religion or belief, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, disability, or background.

We believe racism has no place within our workplace or our work culture and we reject all forms of hatred, prejudice, intolerance, and discrimination.

We believe Black Lives Matter and it is our expectation that all employees become actively committed to making unbiased choices and are anti-racist in everything they do. Our Imagination community must share and live these beliefs, as diversity makes us stronger.

Our priority is humanity and our efforts towards a more diverse, more equitable, and more inclusive workplace are never done.