Environmental Graphic Designer Columbus, OH

Environmental Graphic Designer

Full Time • Columbus, OH
Benefits:
  • 401(k) matching
  • Flexible schedule
  • Health insurance
  • Parental leave
  • Relocation bonus
  • Wellness resources
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!
 
Compensation: $60,000.00 - $75,000.00 per year

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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Benefits/Perks

All employees enjoy:

 
  • Casual and creative working environment
  • Working in a unique and exciting industry
  • Complimentary beverages
  • Access to Industry conferences and exhibitions


Paid parental leave
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Paid time off
Paid holidays
Dark week
Offices closed and paid time off between Christmas and New Year’s Day
Employer paid life insurance, short term disability, long term disability