Creative Director, Visualization — Ocean Tech

Content Creators; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 125,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) plan

Flexible paid time off

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Panthalassa, based in Portland, OR, seeks a hands-on 3D artist/visual designer to translate ideas into compelling visuals for ocean technology. You will sketch, model, texture, light, render, and animate, guiding others while staying engaged with the bigger brand story.

You’ll work with the CEO and engineering teams to shape a distinctive visual language, overseeing the pipeline from concept to final deliverables and collaborating across film and website projects.

Qualifications

• 5+ years professional experience as a 3D artist, animator, concept artist or industrial designer.
• Experience leading visual direction on complex technical, mechanical, or industrial subject matter.
• Strong grounding in industrial design, mechanical design, or vehicle design with hard surface modeling.
• Exceptional command of light, value, composition, color, staging, mood, form, and spatial scale.
• Strong sense of motion, animation, and camera.
• Experience mentoring, leading, or reviewing the work of other artists.
• Excellent communicator who is self-directed, collaborative, and comfortable giving and receiving direct critique.
• Genuine interest in ocean technology and climate solutions.

Responsibilities

• Translate emerging ideas into clear, compelling visuals with CEO, Creative Director, and engineering teams.
• Develop a distinctive visual language for Panthalassa’s technology and how it evolves.
• Lead creative direction for visualizations from early concepts to final deliverables.
• Build and guide the pipeline for concepting, modeling, texturing, lighting, composition, rendering, and animation.
• Stay hands-on: sketch, model, build scenes when needed.
• Direct and review freelance artists’ work, and help grow an in-house team of designers.

Skills

5+ years as 3D artist

Leading visual direction

Excellent communicator

User of both engineer and artist mind

Job description

Panthalassa, based in Portland, OR, seeks a hands-on 3D artist/visual designer to translate ideas into compelling visuals for ocean technology. You will sketch, model, texture, light, render, and animate, guiding others while staying engaged with the bigger brand story.

You’ll work with the CEO and engineering teams to shape a distinctive visual language, overseeing the pipeline from concept to final deliverables and collaborating across film and website projects.