Head of Studio

Must be authorized to work in the U.S. This position is not eligible for sponsorship.

Our client is a growing immersive design and experiential agency creating high-impact physical experiences and environments for culture-driven brands. The studio brings together strategic design, creative thinking, and production expertise to deliver work across experiential, spatial, and integrated disciplines. The agency is highly creative, entrepreneurial, and collaborative, with a strong emphasis on producing exceptional work while building an environment where teams can do their best thinking.

The Head of Studio is a senior leadership role responsible for ensuring the studio not only operates effectively, but consistently produces work at an exceptional creative standard.

• Help establish and maintain a high standard for the studio's creative output and overall delivery.
• Think strategically about how the studio should evolve, including capabilities, talent, tools, technology, and ways of working.
• Partner with creative, production, and agency leadership to translate vision and strategy into operational reality.
• Help create an environment that enables ambitious creative work while maintaining strong operational and financial discipline.

• Lead and mentor senior operational and production team members across the studio.
• Oversee and continue developing the Creative Producer function, ensuring producers are both operationally rigorous and creatively fluent.
• Establish effective resource planning across projects based on scope, budget, timing, workload, and required skill sets.
• Monitor utilization and team capacity to ensure projects are sustainably staffed.
• Help identify, attract, and develop the talent required as the studio grows.
• Create clear accountability and strong collaboration across creative, production, operations, and project delivery teams.

• Own scoping, budgeting, and margin standards across the studio's portfolio of work.
• Ensure project estimates appropriately balance creative ambition with financial and operational realities.
• Partner with internal teams on project-level scopes, budgets, staffing plans, and margin health.
• Establish clear escalation points for changes involving scope, budget, timing, resources, or deliverables.

• Oversee and continuously improve the studio's end-to-end operating process, from intake and scoping through kickoff, production, and final delivery.
• Identify gaps, inefficiencies, and potential risks before they impact creative teams, clients, or project delivery.
• Build processes that support great creative work rather than adding unnecessary layers or bureaucracy.
• Evaluate the tools and systems used across the studio and identify opportunities to improve how teams collaborate, plan, and deliver work.
• Help build scalable infrastructure while maintaining the flexibility required in a fast-moving creative environment.

• Serve as a strategic partner to Creative, Production, and Agency Leadership.
• Balance creative integrity and ambition with operational, financial, and resource considerations.
• Support new business and RFP efforts by providing guidance around scoping, staffing, budgets, and production feasibility.
• Ensure strong communication and collaboration across creative, production, operations, external partners, and client-facing teams.

• 12-15 years of experience in studio leadership, creative operations,…