CAREERS
Portland is Growing
There are few roles that allow the opportunities that Portland facilitate, a chance to be a guiding voice to some of the worlds’ greatest projects and to work with iconic designers and creatives from a multitude of sectors and backgrounds.
Who we are looking for
We are seeking ambitious people who want to make a difference, to progress and learn.
These positions provide opportunities for those who enjoy taking ownership of their work and will suit people who are organised, rigorous in their approach and are
‘Big-Picture Thinkers’.
Portland is a hybrid studio / work-from-home business, and these roles will suit individuals who are great communicators, need only initial guidance and can imbue their work with passion and insight.
Open Positions
To apply please click on the links under each job description.
-
Requisition number: SENIO004343
Job Summary
The Senior Designer will work closely with Client Teams to create exciting places to visit, both in placement and the vibrant, compelling uses. The Senior Designer is a Team Leader in charge of delivering reports, with close support from the master planning management.
Overall Responsibilities:
• Develop and deliver the Scope as detailed in the fee proposal (and later, help write the scopes).
• Resource/ time management, plus hands-on production of work.
• Strategy development for the retail neighborhood characters (aspirational waterside dining / wellbeing park entertainment etc.) and integrating research and conceptual thinking into planning diagrams that inform external Architectural Team masterplans.
• Attending Client & Subconsultant meetings. Running, presenting, and developing the project. Briefing specialists and managing outputs.
• Documentation and presentations. In charge of the team’s production of information, organisation of the Project File and review processes.
Requirements and skills:
• Architectural / master planning background.
• Good teamwork and management skills.
• Using conceptual principles to develop strategies.
• Delivery of advanced area schedules.
• Grasshopper Script Awareness.
• An ability to create excel sheets that tabulate creative decision-making into sequences, that can be developed into automation processes.
• Confident and articulate communicator in meetings.
• Good organisational & detail-focused presentation skills.
• Decision-making autonomy and ability to work remotely.
Proficiency with the following software:
• InDesign
• Excel, Word and Powerpoint
• Photoshop
• Cad (Autocad or Rino )
• Sketch Up (if not Rino)
• Grasshopper
• Hand-drawing
Start Date: as soon as possible.
-
Requisition number: INTER004346
Job Summary
The Mid-Weight Designer’s role is to support lead designer in interpreting and implement the creative vision across a broad range of projects ranging from digital, social, print, environmental design. The Mid-Weight Designer will be highly creative and conceptual with excellent skills in typography, branding & digital design & identity creation, and skilled within the full Adobe Creative Suite.
Overall Responsibilities:
• Support lead designer for a broad range of projects including branding, print communication, digital and environmental branding.
• Creation of digital design and assets for use on website and social media platforms.
• To maintain the high visual standard Portland sets and assist others in maintaining this standard.
• Creation of presentations to present strategy, ideas/executions for approval.
• Contribute to studio culture (how we think, work and play).
• Creation of unique designs and suites of brand assets
• Creation of digital design and assets for use on website and social media platforms
• Creative concepts, development and integrating research and conceptual thinking into presentation decks.
• Documentation and presentations. In charge of the team’s production of information.
• Ability to create original concepts from client brief / assist others in same.
• Produce concept work using hand sketches or computer software to a professional standard.
• Source reference material and carry out research to ensure that materials and products are fit for purpose.
• Produce mood boards and sample boards that communicate the concept clearly.
• Assemble presentations using a variety of digital and traditional media.
• Record meetings (minutes / letter / file note).
• Develop client and design team relationships.
• Attending client meetings, present design work at interim stages and/or initial concept stage.
• Attend site and liaise with contractors, printers and design / construction team.
• Reporting on all aspects of your project at any time, internally or to the client.
• Work to deadlines by planning your time and that of others (Junior Designers).
• Continually work to improve communication skills with all parties.
• Produce concept work using hand sketches or computer software to a professional standard.
• Assemble presentations using a variety of digital and traditional media.
• Develop client and design team relationships.
• Attending client meetings, present design work at interim stages and/or initial concept stage.
• Attend site and liaise with contractors and design / construction team.
• Reporting on all aspects of your project at any time, internally or to the client.
• Continually work to improve communication skills with all parties.
• Work closely with clients on project needs.
• Leads mock-up design reviews before the final production or client presentation.
• May participate in new business initiatives with other senior staff such as client interviews and proposal preparation.
• Travel may be required.
Requirements and skills:
• Good knowledge of the environmental graphic design process.
• Good knowledge of materials and production methods.
• Good knowledge of branding, print design and multi-media applications.
• Must possess design talent, creative energy, management and organisational skills.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Ability to anticipate, identify and resolve problems and recognise alternative solutions.
• Ability to provide excellent, consistent service to internal and external clients in a professional manner.
• Ability to effectively meet deadlines.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team environment and must possess good interpersonal skills
• Good teamwork and management skills.
• Confident and articulate communicator in meetings.
• Good organisational & detail-focused presentation skills.
• Decision-making autonomy and ability to work remotely.
• Be able to communicate issues at all levels.
• Being proactive and responsible in attitude.
• User focused and passionate about delivering meaningful enhancement to the end user.
• Ability to translate and apply brand and strategic project vision into physical form.
• Ability to understand and execute ideas visually and apply to client presentations, storytelling/communicating ideas visually, quickly and efficiently.
• Attention to detail and keen eye for typography and cartography.
• Happy to travel and take ultimate and overarching ownership and responsibility for a project.
• 2-3 years of experience within the creative industry, preferably within a multidisciplinary agency, with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
Proficiency with the following software:
• Abobe Suite (InDesign: Necessary)
• SketchUp and/or Rhino (Necessary)
• Enscape and/ or Twin Motion (Advantageous)
• Hand-drawing (Advantageous)
Start Date: as soon as possible.
-
Requisition number: SENIO004344
Job Summary
The Intermediate (Midweight) Designer will work closely with teams, supporting the provision of research, design and delivery of strategies for making exciting neighborhoods.
Overall Responsibilities:
• Retail activation inputs into masterplan overlay and user-researched presentation material.
• Planning diagrams for sustainable size and placement of commercial space and use-recommendations that are designed around the identified needs or differing user types.
• Research into what people want to visit: the latest/ most successful retail centers, entertainment and leasure concepts, cultural uses and events, and how versions of these concepts can enrich our schemes.
• Documentation with diagrammatic information on principles and illustrative benchmarking that helps inform the Client’s planning and elevational drawings.
• Creation of conceptual diagrams with accompanying text that distils ideas into key bullet-points.
• Public realm activation of shop-spill-out and delivery programming lists for event spaces.
• Creation of Powerpoint and Indesign documents.
• Contribution to studio culture (how we think, work and play).
Requirements and skills:
• Accomplished & creative all-rounder from research to visualization to detailing.
• Cross-sector experience in the following a must: Retail/F&B/Brand Experience.
• Comfortable with Retail Strategy / Customer Journey Design.
• Eagerness to find new leisure and retail concepts.
• Architectural / master planning background.
• Ability to take ownership of projects with supervision.
• Decision-making autonomy and ability to work remotely.
• Teamwork and eagerness to learn new methods.
• Able to verbally articulate your ideas in a variety of contexts.
• Confident with client liaison.
• Graphical and detail-focused presentation skills.
• Good organisational and prioritising skills.
• A desire to develop yourself and those around you.
• 3+ years of experience within the creative industry, preferably in an interdisciplinary designer role, with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
Proficiency with the following software:
• AutoCAD 2D (Necessary)
• Abobe Suite (InDesign: Necessary)
• SketchUp and/or Rhino (Necessary)
• Enscape and/ or Twin Motion (Advantageous)
• Hand-drawing (Advantageous)
• Revit (Optional)
Start Date: as soon as possible.
-
Requisition number: INTER004347
Job Summary
The Junior Designer (2D) will work closely with teams, supporting the provision of research, design and delivery of strategies for making exciting neighborhoods.
Overall Responsibilities:
• Support lead designer for a broad range of projects including branding, print communication, digital and environmental branding.
• Creation of digital design and assets for use on website and social media platforms.
• To maintain the high visual standard Portland sets and assist others in maintaining this standard.
• Creation of presentations to present strategy, ideas/executions for approval.
• Contribute to studio culture (how we think, work and play).
• Support lead designer in the creation of unique designs and suites of brand assets.
• Creation of digital design and assets for use on website and social media platforms.
• Resource/ time management, plus hands-on production of work.
• Ability to create original concepts from client brief / assist others in same.
• Produce concept work using hand sketches or computer software to a professional standard.
• Source reference material and carry out research to ensure that materials and products are fit for purpose.
• Produce mood boards and sample boards that communicate the concept clearly.
• Assemble presentations using a variety of digital and traditional media.
Requirements and skills:
• Good knowledge of the environmental graphic design process.
• Good knowledge of materials and production methods.
• Good knowledge of branding, print design and multi-media applications.
• Must possess design talent, creative energy.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Ability to effectively meet deadlines.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team environment and must possess good interpersonal skills.
• Good teamwork.
• Confident and articulate communicator in meetings.
• Good organisational & presentation skills.
• Decision-making autonomy and ability to work remotely.
• Being proactive and responsible in attitude.
• User focused and passionate about delivering meaningful enhancement to the end user.
• Happy to travel and take ultimate and overarching ownership and responsibility for a project.
Proficiency with the following software:
• Abobe Suite (InDesign: Necessary)
• SketchUp and/or Rhino (Necessary)
• Excel, Word and Powerpoint (Necessary)
• Enscape and/ or Twin Motion (Advantageous)
• Hand-drawing (Advantageous)
Start Date: as soon as possible.