NYC Creative Collective Seeks a Head of Technology
Worker-owned studio garden3d is hiring a senior engineering leader to shape how AI-assisted development fits into a values-driven creative practice.
If you've ever wanted to lead engineering somewhere that takes open source seriously and shares its profits with the people doing the work, garden3d's latest hire might be worth a look. The collective — which operates Sanctuary Computer as its development arm — is searching for a Head of Technology to steer the engineering team through what they're calling the era of agentic code.
Garden3d is a worker-owned collective based in New York City that spans brand work, IoT hardware, and cross-platform apps. They've built software for names like Google, Stripe, Figma, Mozilla, the ACLU, and MIT, and they're the team behind products like The Light Phone and Mill. The collective also runs Index Space, a decentralized community space network with a global footprint.
What makes the setup unusual isn't just the client list — it's the structure. Profits are shared across the collective, new businesses are spun out regularly, and promising ideas get backed with real money or in-kind support. Everything they build gets open-sourced.
The role itself is squarely leadership-level: setting technical direction, managing engineering culture, and figuring out how AI tooling changes the way a studio like this actually ships work. If you're a senior engineer who's been thinking hard about where human-led development ends and agentic systems begin, this is the kind of job worth researching further.
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