Environmental Designer - Contract
Location: Remote - EST hours
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: Contract through approximately October 2026
Pay Rate: $60-$65/hour W2 (paid weekly)
About the Role
Our client is seeking a hands-on Environmental Designer to support the development of large-scale experiential environments and live events. This individual will partner with creative, production, and fabrication teams to translate established concepts into accurate, production-ready 3D designs.
The ideal candidate combines strong creative design skills with the technical expertise needed to understand how concepts will function in the real world. This includes accounting for scale, proportion, materials, structural considerations, and fabrication requirements while maintaining the overall creative vision.
Responsibilities
- Create and refine 3D environmental and experiential designs for live events, activations, stages, booths, signage, fan experiences, and physical installations.
- Translate creative concepts into detailed and accurate 3D visualizations and production-ready designs.
- Take designs from early-stage ideation through refinement and final production/fabrication preparation.
- Ensure designs accurately account for scale, proportion, materials, physical space, and fabrication requirements.
- Collaborate closely with creative directors, production teams, and external fabrication partners.
- Refine selected concepts based on creative, production, client, and fabrication feedback.
- Help determine how experiential concepts will physically function within event and venue environments.
- Incorporate environmental graphics, signage, and branded elements into 3D spaces.
- Work within established creative direction and brand guidelines while contributing ideas and design solutions.
Required Qualifications
- Professional experience in environmental, experiential, spatial, exhibit, event, or architectural design.
- Strong hands-on proficiency with 3D design software such as SketchUp, Rhino, Vectorworks, Revit, or comparable tools.
- Demonstrated experience taking concepts from ideation through production/fabrication-ready design.
- Strong understanding of scale, proportion, materials, physical environments, and fabrication.
- Experience working directly with production teams and/or fabrication partners.
- Portfolio demonstrating relevant work across experiential environments, events, booths, stages, exhibits, installations, or similar physical spaces.
- Ability to work efficiently within an established creative direction and refine concepts based on feedback.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to balance creative ideas with real-world production requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with environmental graphics and signage.
- Strong 2D graphic design capabilities.
- Print production experience.
- Experience designing for large-scale events, conferences, automotive experiences, sports activations, stages, or branded experiences.
- Experience with modular or reusable event and exhibit systems.
