Senior Visualization Director - Ocean Tech & Energy

Panthalassa; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Panthalassa, a renewable energy and ocean technology company based in Portland, Oregon, seeks a hands‑on visual designer who can translate engineering concepts into engaging visuals. You’ll work with the CEO, Creative Director, and engineering teams to turn whiteboard sketches and ideas into visuals that explain what we’re building and why it matters.

You think like an engineer and an artist, balancing accuracy with beauty.

Qualifications

• 5+ years professional experience as a 3D artist, animator, concept artist or industrial designer.
• Experience holding your own in strategic conversations about products and technologies that don't yet exist: asking sharp technical questions and understanding engineering reasoning well enough to visualize it accurately.
• Strong grounding in industrial design, mechanical design, or vehicle design, with a mastery of 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, or clear readiness to grow into that responsibility.
• Excellent communicator who is self‑directed, collaborative, and comfortable giving and receiving direct, constructive critique.

Responsibilities

• While here you will 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 changes over time.
• Lead creative direction for visualizations, from early concepts to drawings to storyboard to finished deliverables like renderings, decks, and animations.
• Build and guide the pipeline for concepting, modeling, texturing, lighting, composition, rendering, and animation.
• Stay hands‑on: sketch, model, build scenes etc. when the work calls for it.
• Direct and review freelance artists’ work, and help grow an in‑house team of 2D, 3D and motion designers.

Job description

Panthalassa, a renewable energy and ocean technology company based in Portland, Oregon, seeks a hands‑on visual designer who can translate engineering concepts into engaging visuals. You’ll work with the CEO, Creative Director, and engineering teams to turn whiteboard sketches and ideas into visuals that explain what we’re building and why it matters.

You think like an engineer and an artist, balancing accuracy with beauty.