Paris, France
Senior exhibition designer
at Avesta Group
Avesta Group is seeking a senior exhibition designer to join its team in Paris.
Avesta Group is looking for a senior exhibition designer to bring to life curatorial and narrative concepts for various international projects.
The selected candidate will lead a creative team through the design development stages of permanent and temporary exhibitions. The senior designer oversees translating each project-specific curatorial and interpretive vision prepared by our curatorial team into a spatial design that provides a unique, site-specific design language tailored to the local context.
They must possess a combination of technical, methodology and process knowledge, a leadership experience and creative skills. The candidate is expected to be a dynamic professional with a unique creative vision who is passionate and inspires the creative team.
Candidate background:
- bachelor’s degree in architecture, scenography or interior design
- skills in museum exhibition design
- minimum of eight years’ experience in the conception of exhibitions
- experience with working in a multicultural environment and ability to adapt to local contexts
- experience in the multiple phases of the exhibition design process, including conceptualisation, design development and construction supervision
- have a good knowledge of the latest exhibition techniques, including multimedia, lighting design, wayfinding and graphic design
- fluent in English (oral and written)
- knowledge of Arabic language is appreciated
- excellent command of interior architecture technical drawing (all scales)
- good command of AutoCAD
- good command of 3D modelling in SketchUp, 3DS Max or equivalents
- good knowledge of photorealistic rendering, V-Ray or equivalent
- good knowledge of Adobe creative suite software (Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop)
- team spirit, professionalism, diplomacy
- capacity to work on short notice
- flexible schedule (business travel possible)
- good communication, team and planning management skills
Job description
The selected candidate will:
- lead and deliver creative exhibition design projects
- act as artistic director for selected exhibitions projects
- lead projects from concept to executive drawings
- elaborate sketches, plans, 3D construction graphs, and construction details to express the projects’ interior design and technical aspects
- illustrate concepts using renderings, sketches and presentation documents
- prepare 3D models and generate plans, elevations and sections
- present and articulate design concepts and intent to internal and external stakeholders
- collaborate closely with all project stakeholders, and especially with clients
- be able to develop a schedule and define fabrication costs
If you are interested in the opportunity, please share with us your portfolio.
Avesta Group Consulting
Avesta Group is a planner, designer and operator that brings culture and leisure projects to life. Over two decades, Avesta Group successfully delivered more than 200 projects in 30 countries worldwide.
With a multinational team of experts representing different cultures, Avesta Group’s vocation is to connect cultures and people by delivering projects that change the world around us.
Avesta Group’s collective experiences of working with prominent actors in culture and leisure industries such as national museums, private organisations, architects, real estate developers, and commercial entities all over the world enable the company to envision and create world-class results.
Avesta Group is proud to have collaborated with the world’s most iconic museums, cultural institutions, and brands from Louvre Abu Dhabi to Grand Egyptian Museum.