Senior 3D Designer

2 weeks ago

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Imagination Full time $90,000 - $120,000 per year
Senior 3D Designer - Live Events & Experiential

Application Deadline: 12 September 2025

Department: Live Production

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Melbourne


Description As a Senior 3D Designer, you'll be a key leader, delivering exceptional 3D design and mentoring junior team members daily. You'll often lead projects, collaborating with Directors and Producers to ensure timely, high-quality, and budget-compliant delivery. 

Your responsibilities include challenging briefs, developing cutting-edge conceptual solutions, and creating comprehensive technical packs with high-quality renders and visuals to sell your 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.

Key Responsibilities 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 budget and time. 
  • Responsible for driving and delivering innovative creative responses for new business pitches by not over capitalising resource.
  • 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 of '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).
  • To provide consistent, enthusiastic and motivational design leadership to the 3D team if required.
  • Works with more autonomy requiring less input from a Design Director.
  • To promote, support and work 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.
  • To contribute to and encourage the overall spirit of Imagination, entrepreneurial ideas and creativity.
  • Keeps up to date with new developments in the design industry. 
Financial / Commercial:
  • Work to allocated project hours, meet utilisation and billable targets and complete timesheets accurately and on time.
  • Work with Resource Management to manage workload.
  • Solid understanding of the financial scope of projects and 3rd party costs that are affected by 3D and 2D creative outputs.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise 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.

Advanced technical knowledge:

• 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. 
Personal attributes:
  • Challenger: Thinks strategically with deep knowledge of company and client practices.
  • Driven: Achieves high client satisfaction and constantly seeks to inspire creativity and innovation.
  • Proactive: Demonstrates a strong sense of ownership and anticipates needs.
  • Resilient: Faces challenges head-on and adapts effectively.
  • Flexible: Adapts well in a dynamic and evolving environment.
  • Builds Relationships: Takes a consultative approach, fostering strong connections.
  • Communicates Effectively: Invites diverse points of view and clearly conveys ideas.
  • Champions Change: Enthusiastically supports new initiatives.
  • Culture Vulture: Engages with and contributes positively to the team culture.

Benefits
  • Hybrid work model, where our team comes into the office a minimum of 3 days per week
  • Birthday leave day
  • Parental leave
  • Team Socials
  • Paid Volunteer Company Event
  • Professional Development Opportunities (run internally)

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