Principal – Discipline Lead

Salary Range: 170000 to 240000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

Leadership, Strategy, and Alignment

• As a Discipline Lead, your impact comes from improving the systems, standards, and workflows that drive discipline consistency, quality, and firmwide alignment. You contribute in three key ways:
Lead Discipline Direction and Technical Standards
• You elevate design quality by defining and upholding discipline standards, templates, and workflows that teams can apply reliably.
• You strengthen project decisions by providing discipline-level judgment on complex or ambiguous design questions.
• You reduce rework and improve scalability by identifying gaps in tools and processes and driving discipline-wide improvements.
Mentor and Develop Team Members Across the Discipline
• You build capability through clear feedback, disciplined design reviews, and targeted development.
• You strengthen engineering judgment by clarifying assumptions, trade-offs, and decision rationale.
• You enhance firmwide decision-making by advising leaders on discipline risks, implications, and strategic design approaches.
• You advance TEECOM’s learning system by guiding the documentation, expectations, and standards taught through training journeys.
Improve the TEECOM System
• You strengthen firmwide consistency by ensuring discipline standards, documentation practices, and workflows are applied across teams.
• You elevate discipline execution by authoring clear, high-quality documentation and Pull Requests that improve clarity and reduce rework.
• You improve cross-team alignment by working with Group Leads and Team Leads so discipline expectations drive everyday decisions and project delivery.
• You enhance TEECOM’s system by refining tools, removing workflow friction, and enabling scalable, efficient discipline practices.

What Success in this Position Looks Like

• You ensure discipline standards, templates, and workflows are clear, current, and consistently applied across all project teams.
• You ensure discipline standards are clear, current, and adaptable to client-specific requirements while maintaining firmwide consistency.
• You strengthen design quality firmwide through proactive guidance, early risk identification, and effective QA/QC oversight.
• You define and achieve discipline priorities that advance documentation, training, and quality objectives aligned with company Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
• You develop engineers and production team members through mentorship that improves judgment, design capability, and adherence to best practices.
• You maintain scalable training resources, including training journeys and discipline guidance, that support onboarding and continuous learning.
• You research codes for the project delivery team and provide code interpretations, along with educating the team when codes change.
• You author and review high-quality documentation and Pull Requests that improve clarity, reduce rework, and strengthen discipline workflows and standards.
• You provide timely discipline support that improves project alignment, consistency, and delivery outcomes.
• You enhance pursuit success by contributing discipline expertise, narratives, and strategic guidance for interviews and proposals.
• You elevate TEECOM’s reputation through participation in thought leadership, industry engagement, and subject matter contributions.
• You model TEECOM’s Core Values—Care, Trust, and Value—through collaboration, communication, and systems thinking.

Responsibilities and Expectations

• These responsibilities and expectations represent what is required to successfully perform the essential functions of this role.
Annual and Quarterly
• Align discipline priorities, standards, and technical guidance to support company OKRs.
• Develop and maintain discipline standards, templates, and documentation in GitHub to support consistent delivery.
• Lead discipline training journeys across career levels to strengthen technical growth and cross-discipline alignment.
• Drive improvements to tools, workflows, QA/QC practices, technical consistency, and cross-discipline alignment.
• Partner with Production Leads, Group Leads, and Team Leads to align discipline initiatives with firmwide engineering and delivery goals.
• Audit and verify consistent use of discipline standards and workflows across projects, identifying gaps and recommending improvements.
• Conduct peer reviews and deep dives on major or high-risk projects to reinforce quality and reduce risk.
• Review lessons learned and technical risks to inform system improvements and discipline direction.
• Support strategic pursuits and contribute to discipline thought leadership through technical positioning, blogs, white papers, industry presentations, and content in partnership with Marketing and Client Relations.
• Partner with Group Leads and Team Leads to address technical skill gaps through improvements to training, tools, and workflows.
Monthly and Bi-Weekly
• Lead discipline meetings to review lessons learned, design risks, emerging technologies, and updates to standards or workflows.
• Conduct discipline peer reviews and technical deep dives on major or high-risk projects to reinforce quality and consistency.
• Collaborate with Project Leads, Group Leads, and Team Leads to resolve discipline challenges, coordination issues, and delivery risks.
• Facilitate manufacturer or industry sessions to keep teams informed about evolving solutions, products, and industry trends.
• Provide discipline insights, progress updates, and key risks to leadership to support engineering alignment and informed decision-making.
Weekly and Daily
• Participate in engineering, project delivery, and cross-discipline syncs to maintain alignment on standards, quality issues, and priorities.
• Conduct or support discipline design reviews and provide timely technical guidance on active project challenges.
• Review pursuit materials and provide coaching on discipline fees, narratives, and technical positioning to support strategic pursuits.
• Review and author discipline documentation through Pull Requests to maintain clarity, accuracy, and consistency across TEECOM.
• Support onboarding and mentoring of engineers and production team members within the discipline.
• Provide responsive discipline expertise to resolve design challenges, coordination issues, and urgent project needs.
• Maintain visibility into discipline activity across Slack, GitHub, and Asana to support timely responses to technical questions, PR reviews, and documentation updates.
• Assess project delivery team members knowledge of their respective disciplines and identify gaps through reviews and interactions and work with them to improve their skill level.
As Needed
• Provide discipline expertise to support strategic pursuits, fee strategy, interviews, and technical positioning.
• Support client meetings, executive discussions, and industry engagement requiring deep technical insight.
• Represent TEECOM at conferences, industry events, and professional organizations.
• Develop or refine tools, calculators, templates, and workflows based on emerging needs or lessons learned.
• Update discipline standards and documentation following major design challenges, field issues, or code changes.
• Partner with Project Leads, Group Leads, and Team Leads to resolve complex cross-discipline challenges and delivery risks.
• Provide technical escalation support during complex design issues, critical milestones, or periods of increased delivery demand.
• Support targeted onboarding or upskilling aligned with discipline standards and training journeys.

Supervisory / Mentorship / Training Responsibilities

• Supervisory: No formal supervisory responsibilities. This is a non-managerial leadership role focused on systems, standards, and excellence.
• Mentorship: Provides discipline-specific coaching and design guidance to designers, engineers, and production staff—strengthening technical judgment, consistency, and adherence to standards.
• Training: Develops and delivers training journeys; supports onboarding and continuous learning to ensure all staff are proficient in discipline standards, tools, and documentation practices.
• Accessibility: Maintains strong visibility and approachability across teams and project delivery groups, encouraging open communication and ensuring engineers can escalate discipline questions and receive timely, thoughtful support.

Experience and Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree preferred; advanced degree (MS or equivalent) a plus.
• Experience: 15+ years of discipline-specific experience in AEC or related professional services.
• Preferred: Prior experience as a senior engineer, Project Lead, or subject matter expert responsible for QA/QC, standards, or technical oversight in Audiovisual/AV.
• Proven ability to lead discipline direction across multiple projects, elevate design quality, and drive consistency in standards, documentation, and workflows.
• Strong understanding of discipline-specific design, cross-discipline coordination, QA/QC practices, risk management, and delivery requirements.
• Demonstrated capability in mentoring senior engineers and designers, developing scalable systems, and contributing to firmwide documentation and training.
• Demonstrated success leading through expertise, documentation, and systems thinking rather than supervision.
Industry certifications preferred or required based on discipline:
• CTS-D (Audiovisual) — required by discipline
• CDT — preferred
• PE — Strongly preferred
• PMP — plus

Physical Demands

• These physical demands represent what is required to perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations will be provided as needed.
• Prolonged desk work using a computer, keyboard, mouse, and telephone.
• Regular reading, writing, and communication in virtual and in-person settings.
• Occasional travel to client sites for meetings, surveys, or inspections.
• Site walks may require standing or walking for extended periods, climbing stairs, and navigating construction or utility areas.
• Field activities may involve bending, kneeling, or maneuvering in confined spaces.
• May occasionally lift or move equipment weighing up to 25 pounds.

Work Environment

• These work environment characteristics represent the conditions encountered while performing essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations will be provided as needed.
• Approximately 75% of work is performed in a remote or office environment using standard office equipment.
• Approximately 25% occurs at client sites, including construction environments and existing facilities.
• Construction sites may include exposure to elevated noise levels, dust, uneven or unfinished walking surfaces, variable lighting conditions, and active construction operations.
• Utility rooms and similar spaces may have restricted access or may not fully comply with ADA accessibility standards. When access limitations exist, TEECOM will support coordinating reasonable accommodations with site-controlling contractor or alternative means to perform essential job functions.
• All accidents, near misses, and unsafe conditions must be reported immediately to the site superintendent and internally to People Operations.