Director, LiDAR Scanning

**THE·TEAM operates at the epicenter of sports, music and entertainment, serving talent, brands and properties on a global scale. LIVE·TEAM specializes in delivering branding and signage, custom fabrication, live event production and experiential operations across sports, music and entertainment. Working with the world’s most iconic properties and brands, we elevate live events to make them unforgettable.****Headquartered in Los Angeles, THE·TEAM's presence spans 28 countries and more than 70 cities, including New York, London, Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico City, Toronto, Paris and Sydney. For more information, please visit** **.**We are looking for a **Spatial Capture Lead** to establish and lead LIVE·TEAM’s new Spatial Capture capability.This role will own the day-to-day workflow, technical standards, quality approach, and development of a small but high-impact specialist team responsible for site capture, scan processing, output generation, and reusable digital assets. The role will combine hands-on technical leadership with operational planning, stakeholder coordination, commercial input, and continuous improvement.You will work across LIVE·TEAM’s venues, events, hospitality environments, retail spaces, offices, training grounds, and temporary builds, helping ensure that physical environments can be captured and turned into practical digital assets for planning, design, fabrication, measurement, digital twins, immersive review, and future innovation use cases.This is not just a scanning role. It is a department-shaping role. You will help define how LIVE·TEAM captures real-world environments, packages them into useful outputs, and builds a scalable capability that supports project delivery, business development, and future digital workflows.**WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:*** Lead the day-to-day operation of the Spatial Capture team, including the Reality Capture Technician and CAD/Output & QA Technician.* Own the end-to-end workflow from request intake and method selection through to delivery, QA, packaging, and feedback.* Decide the right capture approach for each use case, including FARO, mobile photogrammetry, phone/tablet LiDAR, 360 capture, and future complementary methods.* Set and maintain standards for capture playbooks, file structure, QA, output packs, naming conventions, and handoff processes.* Review project requests and work with internal teams to define scope, outputs, timelines, risks, and resourcing requirements.* Support proposals, RFPs, pricing, estimates, and solution design by advising on feasibility, workflow, delivery approach, and likely output value.* Work closely with Design, Creative, CS, Sales, Fabrication, Operations, and Technical Innovation to ensure outputs are fit for purpose and commercially useful.* Attend selected site visits, client meetings, and internal planning sessions where technical input or departmental representation is needed.* Provide technical oversight and QA sign-off on delivered outputs, including orthophotos, CAD-ready bases, point cloud outputs, lightweight 3D assets, panoramas, and digital-twin-ready packages.* Help shape how scan-derived data can support LIVE·TEAM’s evolving internal workflow and operational platform, Quest/Quest X and future AI-enabled processes.* Own the definition, establishment and assurance of measurement output standards (including 2D CAD and reporting) as a core service offering.* Ensure outputs are fit for planning, artwork placement, technical decision making, and job quoting.* Track new tools, workflows, and standards across reality capture, digital twins, photogrammetry, immersive environments, and virtual production-adjacent workflows, and recommend where LIVE·TEAM should experiment next.* Lead PoCs and evaluations of complementary tools such as RealityScan and related capture/visualisation technologies, ensuring the department remains vendor-flexible rather than vendor-dependent.* Mentor and develop the team, creating a culture of technical quality, practical problem-solving, curiosity, and continuous improvement.**THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE YOU NEED:*** Strong experience in reality capture, spatial data, photogrammetry, laser scanning, digital surveying, digital twins, or closely related workflows.* Proven ability to lead projects or small teams across capture, processing, quality control, and delivery.* Experience selecting the right capture and output approach for different environments and use cases, rather than relying on one tool for everything.* Good working knowledge of point clouds, orthophotos, CAD-ready outputs, lightweight 3D assets, and how scan-derived data supports planning, design, fabrication, and operational decision-making.* Comfortable working across field capture, office-based processing oversight, and stakeholder-facing problem solving.* Experience with capture and processing ecosystems such as FARO, RealityScan, Autodesk ReCap, Rhino, Revit, Navisworks, SketchUp, CloudWorx, Twinmotion, Unreal Engine, or comparable tools.* Strong understanding of QA/QC, data organisation, standards, and what good looks like for usable deliverables, not just technically correct raw data.* Able to contribute to pricing, estimates, planning assumptions, and early-stage solution thinking for internal and client-facing opportunities.* Confident working across departments and able to translate specialist technical detail into practical decisions for non-specialist stakeholders.* Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present recommendations, findings, and opportunities clearly.* Comfortable working in a fast-moving, design-led, delivery-focused environment.* Strong people leadership skills, with the ability to support, coach, and grow a high-performing specialist team.* Experience in live events, venues, experiential, branded environments, staging, hospitality, sports, or retail rollout.* Experience producing or supporting digital twin environments for planning, review, or operational use.* Familiarity with real-time visualisation and immersive workflows, including Twinmotion, Unreal Engine, or VR review pipelines.* Experience with proposal support, bid responses, or pre-sales technical consultation.* Familiarity with AI-supported workflows, automation opportunities, or structured digital asset management.* Understanding of drone/aerial capture possibilities and where they fit into a wider spatial workflow.**WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE:*** A reliable, well-run Spatial Capture function with clear standards, repeatable workflows, and trusted outputs.* Strong coordination between field capture, office processing, QA, and delivery.* Outputs that are genuinely useful to design, fabrication, CS, sales, operations, and client teams.* Consistent delivery of measurement ready outputs that are trusted by clients, design teams, and production teams.* Better use of spatial data across LIVE·TEAM, including planning, measurement, digital twins, and future immersive workflows.* Sensible, evidence-based tool evolution rather than overreliance on one vendor or legacy process.* A motivated, high-performing team with clear expectations, strong support, and room to grow.* Visible commercial value through smarter scoping, clearer estimates, stronger RFP responses, and more reusable digital assets.*THE·TEAM does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.* #J-18808-Ljbffr