Event Set Designer | Production Designer

Meeting Tomorrow is a 20-year-old company with a growing team of 85 friendly employees. We’re headquartered in Chicago, with 80% percent of our team working remotely in cities all over the country. We produce in-person, hybrid, and virtual events and rent equipment that brings people together. Our clients range from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses, and we pride ourselves on providing the best customer experience in the events industry. We offer the greatest coworkers you’ll find anywhere, great benefits, and the opportunity to work in a dynamic, team-oriented, entrepreneurial environment. We can’t wait to meet you! 

The Opportunity: Meeting Tomorrow is looking for an experienced Event Set Designer to bring creativity and beautiful aesthetics to our clients' events. The Event Set Designer will be responsible for crafting stunning event design solutions and developing the designs from concept to production. This role is dedicated to translating our clients' visions into cohesive stage and scenic designs, compelling decor, layouts, and impactful visual representations of their brand. The Event Set Designer collaborates closely with teams, from initial client pitch to final production, to craft innovative concepts, themes, and elements that elevate our clients' brands and bring their visions to life on stage and throughout their events. This role will leverage their expertise in 3D modeling, digital rendering, stage design, and graphic design to ensure our clients' brands shine across scenic, print, and digital deliverables. The ideal candidate has a complimentary range of skill sets that will allow them to thrive in this position. Meeting Tomorrow supports events for our clients of all types and sizes including conferences, internal meetings, sales and marketing events, and many others. These events can be in person, hybrid, or virtual and the customer needs can be event-specific or ongoing. 
Main Responsibilities include: • Collaborate with our Creative, Sales, Production Teams and Clients to visualize, conceptualize, and design visually captivating, on-brand solutions for our clients' events. • Create 3D renderings of proposed scenic solutions to help clients visualize options. • Meet with clients to listen to their event needs, requirements, and pitch ideas.• Generate ideas for all aspects of the event from the main stage AV & scenic to furniture, floral, decor, and custom fabrication. • Understands the scale of stage set pieces and audiovisual equipment and what is possible from a technical perspective. • Match vision with reality by sourcing solutions from our vendor partners, and researching, identifying, and vetting new vendors as needed. • Must understand estimated costs of proposed solutions to ensure that what they are proposing meets the clients budget needs. • Create event seating layouts and floor plans. • Support our clients and creative team by implementing the clients brand, content, and collateral through all relevant materials including but not limited to graphic design projects such as signage, event logos, and presentation slide templates. • Responsible for moving along the design process and hitting all design deadlines. This includes renderings for proposal pages pre-sale and supporting our internal teams with finalizing deliverables post-sale. • Supports our creative team by contributing to internal projects such as improvements to processes, developing sales materials, developing resources and asset libraries. • Researching and understanding industry and design trends to keep ideas fresh.
What we need: Creativity: As a creative event set designer, it's essential that you're able to think of innovative and exciting ways to visually communicate ideas. You will use creative thinking to understand our clients’ goals and needs, then translate these into meaningful, impactful, fresh, and modern solutions aligned with their project objectives and briefs. Communication skills: Actively listening to client and team design goals, articulating creative ideas effectively, managing expectations, and adeptly conveying project visions. Additionally, skilled in presenting with a friendly demeanor and fostering collaborative teamwork.Time management: Ability to manage several projects at the same time. It's important that this role takes ownership of their assigned events, keeps the designs moving, and the projects on track.Software knowledge: Proficiency in 3D modeling and rendering software, mastery of tools necessary for producing deliverables, and the ability to conceptualize, illustrate, and generate graphics using industry-standard design software.Production knowledge: Comprehensive fulfi