Play a pivotal role in designing the future of immersive and interactive experiences for museums and attractions worldwide.
Roto is on the lookout for a visionary Environmental Graphic Designer (EGD) to join our team. As an EGD, you'll leverage a diverse skill set that encompasses graphic design, architecture, art, lighting, and landscape to enhance the user experience within the built environment. Your expertise will be instrumental in crafting immersive, multisensory experiences that captivate and inspire our guests long after they've left.
At Roto, we're pioneers in redefining attraction-based experiences. With a mission to create genuine human connections in physical environments, we've spent two decades crafting extraordinary and engaging experiences for museums, zoos, aquariums, and attractions. Collaborating with renowned institutions in the cultural sector, we push the limits of possibility through nature, play, creativity, digital technology, and beyond.
Key Responsibilities
- Engage in a vibrant, collaborative team environment, contributing to creative problem-solving and iteration with exhibit designers, architects, content developers, and project managers.
- Research, brainstorm, and create innovative environmental and experiential design ideas that push the boundaries of the field to be more impactful and supersensory.
- Co-create high-quality design documents capturing creative vision and design intent through concept, schematic, and detail design phases, ensuring detailed, to-scale outputs.
- Craft and deliver compelling design presentations to effectively convey concepts to stakeholders and internal team members.
- Execute design concepts across all project stages, collaborating closely with project leads and fellow designers, managing multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
- Apply knowledge of signage, large format, and environmental graphics production materials, methods, and processes, coordinating with graphic vendors and installers as needed.
- Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills, comfortable speaking in front of clients, and producing detailed design documents coordinating with architectural drawings.
- Be prepared to travel for projects, embrace additional duties, display adaptability and initiative, and show a passion for creating authentic, memorable environments for diverse audiences.
Qualifications
- A minimum of 5 years of environmental/experiential graphic design experience
- Bachelor’s degree in graphic design or related field
- Proficiency in Adobe Suite using CADTools, and Sketchup is must; experience with Revit/CAD a plus.
- Ability to design branded environments, content and informational signage, messaging, wayfinding, and visual systems
To be considered, applicants must:
- Provide a portfolio/work samples demonstrating your relevant 2D and 3D environmental graphic design experience.
- Be willing to relocate to the Columbus, Ohio, area. Roto is a hybrid workplace, with plenty of flexibility to contribute from home as well as within our 60,000 square foot studio/workshop.
Benefits: Fun, creative, collaborative, unique, and casual working environment. Medical, dental, vision, PTO, paid holidays, and more!
Roto is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We offer equal employment opportunities to all regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or age.
We believe that diversity fuels innovation and creativity, and we are committed to fostering an inclusive work environment where every voice is valued and respected.
Join us in shaping the future of immersive design, where passion meets purpose, and every idea has the power to ignite change.
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Roto has produced in more than 150 museums with exhibits, attractions, and architectural features throughout the world. Our team of over 85 professionals offer a broad and unique skill set, combining design and development excellence with in-house engineering and fabrication for a wide array of exhibits and attractions.
Our central idea of "Building Genuine Human Connections" stems from our reflection of what physical “experiences” mean to the users of multisensory visitor destinations like zoos, museums and attractions. Why do people buy tickets and go? Many answers emerge, including a chance to tangibly experience the world with our whole bodies, rather than just our eyeballs; the desire to do things larger than ourselves, that transport us outside our routine home and work spaces within environments we find original and immersive; and the desire to connect with friends and family in a way that is deeper and more authentic.
We make connections between people and their world, their communities and themselves, using play, discovery, nature, participation, stories, and sharing. We do this in ways that are uniquely human, using the whole power of human thinking, feeling, social and sensory ability. And our ways are real and genuine, tangible and deep, more substance, more true, less superficial, less virtual, less hype. The world needs stronger, deeper and more genuine human connections. We need more opportunities to explore with our whole physical bodies, to be transformed by unique environments, and to do meaningful and memorable things with those we love most.
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