Spatial Designer Lead

Overview

Job description

Our client is a dynamic design studio that partners with high-profile clients including Nike, LEGO, and Google. They create immersive brand experiences from initial concept through final installation.

• Location:
  
  Camden, NJ (relocation package offered)
• Schedule:
  
  3 days in office, 2 remote
• Salary: $100-120k
• Benefits:
  Health, dental, vision

• Spend approximately 70% of your time producing build-ready design work, including floor plans, form studies, material and finish direction, build-intent briefs, technical drawings, and 3D models.
• Translate client concepts and project briefs into clear, practical design solutions for engineering, fabrication, and production teams.
• Spend approximately 30% of your time leading design-focused pitches: developing pitch decks, presenting concepts to clients, and helping win new business.
• Bring design expertise into client conversations alongside growth and project-management partners.
• Develop original spatial concepts, visual treatments, renderings, and presentation materials for proposals and active projects.
• Collaborate with project managers to align creative direction with scope, schedule, budget, materials, labor, and production requirements.
• Introduce strong creative processes, design standards, and working habits that help the team deliver consistently high-quality work.

• Experience in experiential, retail, exhibition, activation, or spatial design environments.
• A portfolio that demonstrates both hands‑on technical design work and polished, client‑facing creative presentations.
• Confidence creating and explaining design concepts to clients, including leading pitch discussions and presenting decks.
• Working knowledge of project budgets, fabrication considerations, materials, labor, and production constraints.
• Strong visual judgment, communication skills, and an ability to balance creative ambition with executional detail.
• Experience building or mentoring design teams and coordinating freelance creative resources is preferred.
• Familiarity with tools such as Fusion and Rhinoceros is a plus, but not required.
• Industry knowledge, sound judgment, collaborative working style, and cultural fit are prioritized over any single technical qualification.
• Experience from experiential design studios or polished creative agencies is especially valued, particularly where you have helped establish strong processes and design discipline.