Associate Creative Director, Visualization
About The Position
Panthalassa is a renewable energy and ocean technology company developing large-scale ocean technologies to capture renewable energy. The Associate Creative Director, Visualization will translate early concepts, engineering ideas, and strategic conversations into accurate, compelling visualizations that help people understand the company’s technology and its significance. This is a hands-on creative leadership role, directing visualization work from concept through final render while also sketching, modeling, texturing, lighting, rendering, and animating as needed. The role will establish and evolve a distinctive visual language for the company’s technology, and ensure visualizations support the broader company story and connect with creative work across film and website. The position collaborates closely with the CEO, Creative Director, and engineering teams, directs freelance artists, and helps grow an in-house team of 2D, 3D, and motion designers.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional experience as a 3D artist, animator, concept artist, or industrial designer, including a track record of leading visual direction on complex technical, mechanical, or industrial subject matter.
- Experience contributing to strategic conversations about products and technologies that do not yet exist, asking technical questions, and understanding engineering reasoning well enough to visualize it accurately.
- Strong grounding in industrial design, mechanical design, or vehicle design, with mastery of hard-surface modeling.
- Exceptional command of light, value, composition, color, staging, mood, form, and spatial scale.
- Exceptional command of animation, camera motion, and animation curves.
- Experience mentoring, leading, or reviewing other artists’ work, or clear readiness to take on that responsibility.
- Excellent communication skills; self-directed, collaborative, and comfortable giving and receiving direct, constructive critique.
- Genuine interest in ocean technology and climate solutions.
Nice To Haves
- Strong drawing and 2D illustration skills.
- Ability to create environmental concept art.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with the CEO, Creative Director, and engineering teams to translate emerging ideas into clear, compelling visuals.
- Develop a distinctive visual language for Panthalassa’s technology and guide how it evolves over time.
- Lead creative direction for visualizations from early concepts, drawings, and storyboards through finished deliverables such as renderings, decks, and animations.
- Build and guide the pipeline for concepting, modeling, texturing, lighting, composition, rendering, and animation.
- Stay hands-on by sketching, modeling, and building scenes when needed.
- Direct and review freelance artists’ work.
- Help grow an in-house team of 2D, 3D, and motion designers.
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off.
- Health insurance, with the company paying 100% of a gold-level PPO plan for full-time employees, their partners, and dependents.
- Dental insurance, with the company paying 100% for full-time employees, their partners, and dependents.
- Vision insurance, with the company paying 100% for full-time employees, their partners, and dependents.
- Disability insurance, with the company paying 100% for a policy providing long-term financial support in the event of disability.
- Ability to contribute to tax-advantaged accounts, including a 401(k), health FSA, and dependent care FSA.
- Relocation assistance to facilitate a move to Portland, if needed.
- Equity in the company.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
