Product Visualization Specialist

Pwiworks; Nappanee (IN); On-site; USD 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

401k with company match

Health insurance

Wellness Reimbursement

Paid birthdays off

Profit-sharing bonus

Job summary

PWI in Indiana seeks a skilled Visualization Specialist to transform CAD data into photorealistic renders, animations, and marketing assets. You’ll own the full visualization pipeline from CAD to final media, delivering content for product demonstrations, tutorials, and campaigns.

You will combine 3D rendering with live-action footage, motion graphics, and branded visuals to communicate product value. This role emphasizes scalable asset libraries and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience with Unreal Engine or real-time rendering workflows.
• Experience creating cinematic product animations and promotional videos.
• Experience combining live-action footage with CGI and motion graphics.
• Experience with camera tracking, compositing, color correction, and visual effects.
• Experience creating training videos, installation guides, and customer education content.
• Manufacturing or industrial product marketing experience.

Responsibilities

• Build photorealistic 3D product renderings from engineering CAD models.
• Create high-quality product animations, exploded views, cutaways, and technical visualizations.
• Produce application-based renderings that showcase products in real-world environments and customer use cases.
• Edit and produce product-focused videos by combining 3D animation, live-action footage, motion graphics, voiceover, music, and branded graphics.
• Create installation videos, product tutorials, feature demonstrations, and launch videos using a combination of rendered and filmed content.
• Develop motion graphics, titles, transitions, and visual effects that enhance product storytelling.
• Design product-focused graphics for social media, digital campaigns, websites, brochures, presentations, and sales collateral.
• Translate technical product information into engaging visual stories across print, digital, and video formats.
• Collaborate with engineering to ensure all visual assets accurately represent product functionality and specifications.
• Maintain a scalable library of reusable 3D models, animations, textures, environments, and marketing assets.
• Repurpose core visualization assets into multiple content formats for different audiences and marketing channels.
• Continuously improve rendering, animation, video editing, and content-production workflows.

Skills

Unreal Engine

Real-time rendering

Cinematic animations

Live-action + CGI

Camera tracking & VFX

Training & education content

Industrial manufacturing experience

3D visualization portfolio

Blender/Cinema 4D/Maya

Tools

Blender

Cinema 4D

3ds Max

Maya

Job description

This role combines 3D product visualization, animation, video production, and graphic design. You will transform engineering models into compelling visual experiences that educate customers, support sales, and strengthen the PWI brand.

You will own the complete visualization pipeline—from engineering CAD through photorealistic renders, animations, and finished marketing assets. Whether creating a static product render, an installation animation, or a product feature video, your work will help communicate the value of our products across every customer touchpoint.

Our products solve important problems, but customers increasingly expect to see products in action before making purchasing decisions. Your work will go beyond creating beautiful renderings. You will help customers visualize how our products are installed, how they operate, and the value they provide through cinematic product videos, technical animations, application renderings, and marketing content.

By building reusable product visualization assets and transforming them into compelling digital experiences, you will help define how the PWI brand is presented across every customer-facing channel.

Responsibilities

• Build photorealistic 3D product renderings from engineering CAD models.
• Create high-quality product animations, exploded views, cutaways, and technical visualizations.
• Produce application-based renderings that showcase products in real-world environments and customer use cases.
• Edit and produce product-focused videos by combining 3D animation, live-action footage, motion graphics, voiceover, music, and branded graphics.
• Create installation videos, product tutorials, feature demonstrations, and launch videos using a combination of rendered and filmed content.
• Develop motion graphics, titles, transitions, and visual effects that enhance product storytelling.
• Design product-focused graphics for social media, digital campaigns, websites, brochures, presentations, and sales collateral.
• Translate technical product information into engaging visual stories across print, digital, and video formats.
• Collaborate with engineering to ensure all visual assets accurately represent product functionality and specifications.
• Maintain a scalable library of reusable 3D models, animations, textures, environments, and marketing assets.
• Repurpose core visualization assets into multiple content formats for different audiences and marketing channels.
• Continuously improve rendering, animation, video editing, and content-production workflows.

What Success Looks Like

Within your first year, you will have:

• Built a scalable digital visualization library of PWI’s product portfolio.
• Produced photorealistic renders, application scenes, and reusable animation assets.
• Developed a consistent visual language across product imagery, video, and marketing materials.
• Created engaging product demonstrations, installation videos, and tutorials that improve customer understanding.
• Reduced reliance on traditional photography by expanding the use of high-quality digital visualization.
• Established repeatable workflows that allow one product model to generate dozens of assets for social media, websites, brochures, presentations, and video.

Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Character

• Mechanically minded — genuinely curious about how products are built and how they function
• Self-directed and resourceful in solving visual and technical challenges
• Comfortable balancing artistic and technical priorities
• Demonstrates PWI’s Core Values in daily decisions and interactions

Education or Experience

• Experience with Unreal Engine or real-time rendering workflows.
• Experience creating cinematic product animations and promotional videos.
• Experience combining live-action footage with CGI and motion graphics.
• Experience with camera tracking, compositing, color correction, and visual effects.
• Experience creating training videos, installation guides, and customer education content.
• Manufacturing or industrial product marketing experience.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• No specific certifications required.
• Additional training will be provided as needed.
• Certifications in Adobe Creative Cloud tools (Premiere Pro, After Effects) or 3D software (Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya) may be helpful, though not required.

Other Skills & Abilities

• Portfolio demonstrating exceptional 3D product visualization, animation, and visual storytelling.
• Experience with Blender, Cinema 4D, 3ds Max, Maya, or similar 3D software.
• Strong understanding of lighting, materials, rendering, composition, animation, and camera movement.
• Professional video editing experience using Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or similar software.
• Experience integrating 3D renders and animations into polished marketing videos.
• Proficiency with Adobe After Effects for compositing, motion graphics, visual effects, and animation.
• Strong graphic design skills, including typography, layout, color, and visual hierarchy.
• Ability to transform complex technical information into engaging visual content.

Physical Abilities

• Must be able to sit and work at a computer/workstation for extended periods of time.
• Occasionally required to move around the shop or job sites to film, photograph, or gather reference material for products and installations.
• Ability to set up, carry, and operate cameras, lighting, and related filming equipment.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

Cognitive and Communication Abilities

• Ability to translate complex technical product information into clear, engaging visual content for varied audiences.
• Ability to communicate effectively with engineering and marketing teams to ensure content is accurate and on-brand.
• Strong attention to detail and visual accuracy when representing product form and function.

Location

• Willing to work on-site at PWI in Nappanee, Indiana
• Very rare travel, if any, may be required to film or photograph products or installations in the field.

Job Details and Benefits

• Positive work environment where culture and Core Values are the highest priority
• Full-Time status with regular overtime
• Paid time off, with up to 3 weeks of paid time off with tenure
• 401k retirement plan with up to 4% company match
• Employer-sponsored individual health insurance, with options for dental and vision
• Wellness Reimbursement
• Paid birthdays off and a 7-year employed all-inclusive vacation package

Compensation

$29-$35/HR + regular overtime plus annual profit-sharing bonus

PWI’s most vital concerns are the safety, health, and wellbeing of its employees and all people who come into contact with its workforce, property, and/or its products, and services. In light of this, as a part of PWI's hiring process, PWI may make all job offers contingent upon results from various checks including background checks, drug screens, reference checks, previous employment checks, and driving record checks (dependent upon position applied for). Our PWI team also takes part in ongoing periodic drug screens whether through random draw, reasonable cause, or post-accident testing.