3D Environmental Design Manager

Craft Agency Ltd; New York (NY); On-site; USD 115,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Car allowance

401k match

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental and life insurance

Paid vacation

Job summary

Craft Agency Ltd in New York is seeking a senior lead to steer the 3D and environments team, shaping how the studio grows and operates. You will balance physical fabrication with real-time rendering, guiding vendors and internal talent.

You’ll manage roughly seven team members and six external partners, owning budgets end-to-end from concept to invoicing in a fast-moving experiential context.

Qualifications

• Around 8 years of experience in creative production rooted in the built environment.
• Experience managing fabricators, exhibit houses and AV integrators.
• Background in architecture with interest in how rendering and real-time tooling reshape it.

Responsibilities

• Lead the 3D and environments team and oversee six concurrent external vendors.
• Own budgets from concept through breakdown, POs and invoicing.
• Shape workflows by bridging physical fabrication timelines with digital rendering work.

Skills

Creative production

Budget management

Team leadership

AV integration

Education

Architectural background

Tools

Real-time rendering tools

Generative tooling

Job description

This is a build role for a New York studio that has grown from one person to sixteen, with plans to grow to seventy in the next 10 years. You would be joining early to shape how it works, not to maintain something already built.

The company is a family-owned American manufacturer, privately held for over sixty years, and the global leader in lighting control. This is an engineering-led business building a modern spatial and creative capability in-house, with the runway of a company that plans in decades.

The Role

You’ll run the operational engine of the 3D and environments team, the group behind trade show experiences, built environments, product and architectural rendering, and an emerging VR/AR capability. The distinctive part is that you hold two worlds together at once: the physical discipline of fabricators, installation schedules, and construction timelines, and the digital work of real-time rendering, generative tooling, and spatial computing.

You would lead a team of around seven, including the 3D Lead and rendering specialists, and manage roughly six concurrent external vendor relationships across fabrication, construction and AV integration. You own budgets from concept through breakdown, POs and invoicing.

The Package

$115,000 – $135,000
Onsite working
Bonus, overtime and a car allowance
401k match, tuition reimbursement, flexible spending accounts
Health, dental and life insurance
Paid vacation scaling with tenure

The Person

You have around 8 years of experience in creative production, rooted in the built environment, ranging from trade show builds and experiential installations to end-to-end exhibition and production design.

You have managed fabricators, exhibit houses and AV integrators, owned budgets, and led teams, and, crucially, you come from an architectural background and have a genuine curiosity about how rendering and real-time tooling have reshaped it.