Head of Exhibit Design & Creative Leadership

E3 XPS; Lenexa (KS); On-site; USD 95,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

E3 XPS in Lenexa, Kansas seeks an Exhibit Design Manager to lead a small design team and shape major experiential projects. You’ll report to the President, guiding concept development, coaching designers through presentations, and solving buildability challenges for high-value opportunities.

You’ll balance creative leadership with hands-on design work, helping grow the team as the company expands its new 130,000-sq-ft design center in 2027.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of design experience in exhibits, experiential environments, interiors or related fields.
• Experience leading designers, projects, or a design function.
• A portfolio showing original thinking and spatial problem-solving.
• Knowledge of materials, fabrication, graphics, AV/tech, and production realities.
• Strong 3D design, rendering, and presentation skills.
• Bachelor's degree preferred; equivalent experience welcome.

Responsibilities

• Provide creative direction for exhibits, environments, and experiential programs.
• Lead a small team of exhibit designers, setting priorities, quality, and accountability.
• Hands-on design leadership on major high-value opportunities.
• Lead design reviews on strategy, storytelling, aesthetics, and buildability.
• Collaborate with Sales, Estimating, PM, Graphics, Production, and Operations.
• Present client concepts that connect ideas to business value.
• Develop design standards and processes to improve speed, consistency, and profitability.

Skills

Exhibit design

Team leadership

3D design

Rendering/presentation

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Job description

E3 XPS in Lenexa, Kansas seeks an Exhibit Design Manager to lead a small design team and shape major experiential projects. You’ll report to the President, guiding concept development, coaching designers through presentations, and solving buildability challenges for high-value opportunities.

You’ll balance creative leadership with hands-on design work, helping grow the team as the company expands its new 130,000-sq-ft design center in 2027.