Head of Design and Production: Gallery Scale Works

About the role

Lionel Villareal Studio is a Brooklyn-based fine art studio focusing on sequenced light artworks. We seek a Head of Design and Production to join our team in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and production of gallery artworks to maximize artistic quality while maintaining efficiency and scalability of systems.
• Cultivate a vendor roster for design, fabrication, and contract assembly.
• Balance in-house vs. outsourced design and optimize studio space use.
• Define the guidelines for the use of off-the-shelf products versus custom components, setting guideposts for how to document and store each type.
• Collaborate with the artist on R&D priorities and perform rapid prototyping.
• Generate photorealistic visualizations of nascent concepts to facilitate high-level presentations and iterative artist reviews.
• Develop holistic artwork systems including specifying LED components, specifying all other components, creating CAD models to communicate design requirements to vendors, determining production strategy for entire artwork.
• Deliver simultaneous projects on-budget and on-schedule.
• Vet vendors, write technical specs, and manage RFPs/work orders.
• Oversee production budgets and bi-weekly variance reporting.
• Guide the budgeting for material and labor for multiple simultaneous projects.
• Design artworks for inclusion in exhibitions.
• Design exhibitions in partnership with the artist.
• Coordinate venue site preparation and supervise onsite installations.
• Create and maintain Bills of Materials for active projects.
• Create artwork manuals and system diagrams.

Qualifications

• Excellent attention to detail, including the ability to inspect artworks and artwork components with an exacting microvision.
• Experience specifying, designing, and fabricating electronic artwork, including the ability to draw complex metalwork in 2D and 3D and to specify build parameters for fabricators while overseeing a given fabricator's execution of the design.
• Experience in mechanical and electrical assembly, including crimping, wiring, and soldering.
• A college degree and at least five years of related experience in product design.
• At least ten years of experience in product design or related pursuits.

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Paid Time Off (PTO)