Head of Technology

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We are hiring a Head of Technology for the garden3d creative collective, to lead engineering at Sanctuary Computer and garden3d in the era of agentic computer code.

We are worker owned creative collective, innovating on everything from brands and IRL communities to IoT devices and cross platform apps. We share profit, open source everything, spin out new businesses, and invest in exciting ideas through financial and/or in-kind contributions.

Our client roster includes Google, Stripe, Figma, Hinge, Black Socialists in America, ACLU, Pratt, Parsons, Mozilla, The Nobel Prize, MIT, Gnosis, Etsy & Gagosian.

Weâre the software team behind innovative products like The Light Phone & Mill, and we operate a global, decentralized community space collective called Index Space.

We think of our garden3d as collective for creative people, prioritizing a happy, talented, and diverse studio culture. We work on projects that bring value to our world, and we balance deep care for the work we do with a genuine curiosity about life outside of our jobs.

At Sanctuary Computer weâre building a different type of technology shop â one that prioritizes close collaboration between the client and the craftsperson.

Our projects range from design-forward websites, to robust web apps, to native mobile development.

When we started XXIX in 2013, we set out to create a different kind of design studio and weâve thrived because we continually ask what a creative practice can be.

Weâre building a radically different kind of organization that values autonomy, growth, transparency, and shared responsibility.

Index is network of physical spaces all around the world, Index provides space for the exchange of knowledge and tools.

We nurture trust within the creative community through generosity and abundance of ideas and care.

At garden3d, weâre in the early stages of building an experimental media company exploring emerging themes related to the evolving landscape of technology, design and culture.

We aim to monetize this outlet, publish books, produce screenplays, and release music.

The garden3d Head of Technology has one mandate: everything we build works, holds up in production, and gets built the smartest way available to us. We are a house of brands
- Sanctuary Computer (development), XXIX (design), Index Space (community), USB Club (digital community), and the garden3d umbrella itself - and a lot of what all of them ship runs on software we wrote. Working in close partnership with our founder & president Hugh Francis, this person sets the engineering standard, and builds the culture that holds it.

You can be based anywhere. A lot of our people are in New York and there's some gravity here, but we already work across timezones and we would happily hire in Europe, Singapore, Chicago, or wherever you are. If you're the right person, we want to hear from you.

This role works with studio leads, developers, designers, project managers and clients across every garden3d vertical.

This person can move between a Rails migration, a Next.js app, a firmware release plan and an agent loop in the same week, and raise the bar on each of them.

They span all of garden3d, but their home base is Sanctuary Computer, where roughly 70% of their time goes. Our development studio is where the engineering standard gets set, and where it either holds or slips: architecture, code review, estimation, and the hardest technical calls on our biggest projects. The other 30% goes to garden3d's broader technology story: how we ship product for USB Club, build with agents across the collective, which tools and platforms we bet on,…