Location: NYC, NY
Discipline: UX / Product Design
Experience: 5+ years
Compensation: $90,000
Business Overview
Barrows boasts over 30 years of expertise in the global retail design sector, continually evolving to meet the diverse needs of the regions we serve. Our unwavering commitment revolves around a singular mission: crafting solutions that ignite shopper conversion. From strategic insights to seamless execution, our comprehensive suite of services spans insights and strategy, design conceptualization, all the way to engineering and implementation. With a strong foundation in manufacturing, our designs are steeped in technical proficiency, ensuring tangible real-world impact. We pride ourselves on delivering remarkable solutions tailored to our clients' unique requirements.
Our global team of Barrows employees, irrespective of background or role, share a common ethos characterized by a can-do attitude and a relentless drive to deliver excellence. This collective spirit not only fosters top-tier work but also cultivates a sense of camaraderie rarely found in multinational agencies.
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Role & Responsibilities
Barrows is seeking a dynamic Senior 3D/Industrial Designer who is passionate about consumer-centered design. You will be instrumental in developing a truly diverse range of creative 3D design solutions, using your range of experience across spatial, experiential, and interior design (visual merchandising and retail design are favorable.) You will be leading projects and ensuring they are delivered to an exceptional standard. Working in a creative, multi-disciplinary environment, you'll be challenged to design commercially viable retail displays, categories, and entire environments that are beautiful and practical. Using strong values and vision you will support and guide junior team members with dedication to excellence. You will liaise with clients, retail specialists, graphic designers, and engineers to create designs from conceptual sketching all the way through to final rendered designs and basic prototype validations. Our retail solutions are created using top-end design packages, incorporating brand identities and with the retail environment in mind.
In addition to bringing a killer attitude and energy, this individual must be able to:
Sit as a core part of the creative team working across multi-faceted design of experiences in retail spaces and with product displays.
Take a leading role for 3D design to develop fully rationalized 3D designs and visuals based on ideas or creative concepts in projects involving campaigns and experiences from ideation and design, to animation and execution.
Work closely with cross functional teams and directly with clients leading projects, building their trust and confidence in creative/design solutions at every stage.
Develop and deliver inspiring creative presentations to clients that communicate ideas through mood imagery and description using adequate detailing to convey best in class creative concepts while inspiring others.
Using a solid understanding of build, production and the technical aspects of the design process, work closely with production team to make sure timelines and budgets and design visions are honored through to final implementation.
Stay up to date with industry trends and developments, Such as Advanced renderings, Interactive products, Automation, AR/VR, Task & project managements.
Manage and/or mentor junior creatives and freelancers, providing guidance and support to ensure high-quality outputs.
Review project requirements and propose visual solutions that meet the client's needs.
Distill creative feedback, and always find ways to build on ideas- maintaining high quality work
Qualifications
5+ years of post-graduate, professional design experience
A degree in Industrial Design, 3D Product Design, or related
Competency in 3D CAD software manufacture modeling
Proficiency in 3D Studio Max for design rendering - 3DS Max preferred, but proficiency in blender, c4d or other similar applications will be considered
Proficiency in Adobe CS
Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
Ability to communicate and present
Design knowledge in a marketing/FMCG environment preferred
Experience in shopper marketing, retail design skills preferred
Sketching (Digital preferred)
Friendly and dynamic disposition with strong interpersonal capabilities
Decisive, driven, and logical thinker
Self-motivated and entrepreneurial
Ability to lead by example and perform well under pressure
Good mechanical/structural aptitude and knowledge of various materials and their associated manufacturing processes
Ability to work in the office 3 days a week
Salary & Benefits
The salary range for this role is$90,000 to $115,000*
*exact compensation will be determined based on individual experience
Benefits include:
Unlimited PTO
Medical, Dental, Vision (with an option for free medical care!)
401K with a % match
Various maternity/paternity leave options
Fully funded disability and life insurance options
Headspace subscription
Wellness Stipend
and more....
