Experience Designer (3D/Spatial)

Location: Pittsburgh, PA; remote candidates will be considered, with preference for candidates in Pittsburgh or willing to relocate.

Salary: $50,000–$84,000 USD per year.

Company

hirify.global is an innovation studio that creates physical and virtual products, installations, and brand experiences through design, technology, storytelling, engineering, and fabrication.

What you will do

• Develop inventive concepts with Creative Directors, Designers, Strategists, and Creative Technologists.
• Design installations, environments, objects, exhibits, activations, and other physical brand experiences.
• Translate concepts into spatial studies, 3D models, renderings, prototypes, and physical forms.
• Map and communicate user experiences through storyboards, flowcharts, spatial diagrams, journey maps, and visual presentations.
• Collaborate with creative, technology, engineering, fabrication, and production teams from early concepting through production.
• Explore emerging technologies, materials, interaction patterns, visual trends, and new creative tools.

Requirements

• 2–4 years of experience in an agency, experiential studio, design studio, architecture or interiors practice, production environment, or similar setting.
• Strong foundation in 3D, spatial, industrial, environmental, or experiential design.
• Strong proficiency in at least one 3D modeling environment such as Rhino, SketchUp, Blender, Cinema 4D, or Fusion; Rhino is preferred.
• Ability to design for physical experience, including form, materiality, interaction, layout, flow, sequence, and user journey.
• Strong visual and verbal communication skills using sketches, diagrams, renderings, storyboards, prototypes, mockups, or presentations.
• Portfolio evidence of physical or interactive experiences, spatial thinking, prototyping, or how people engage with ideas in the real world.

Nice to have

• Background in industrial design, spatial or environmental design, architecture, interiors, exhibit design, experiential design, 3D visualization, or product design.
• Additional experience in interaction design, graphic design, motion, animation, art direction, UX/UI, strategy, or creative technology.
• Student work, self-directed projects, speculative concepts, small installations, event work, or experimental projects demonstrating strong physical-experience thinking.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a multidisciplinary studio spanning marketing, engineering, design, and fabrication.
• Contribute to ambitious projects for recognized brand clients.
• Competitive benefits package.
• Culture centered on being inventive, impactful, resourceful, humble, and efficient.
• Studio based in a renovated brewery loft space in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania.