Principal, Discipline Lead - Audiovisual

TEECOM

3d • $170,000 - $240,000

About The Position

The Principal, Discipline Lead is a senior technical leadership position responsible for advancing discipline standards, best practices, documentation, training, and design quality across the firm. As a member of TEECOM’s Engineering Team, you’ll help reduce firmwide risk, strengthen project delivery, and ensure our systems scale effectively. You’ll lead through expertise and clarity—setting direction for how the discipline is practiced, guiding complex design decisions, and maintaining high standards across teams and projects.

You’ll serve as the firm’s subject matter expert for your discipline, providing judgment on design challenges, conducting design and QA/QC reviews, and supporting project teams with early guidance. You’ll shape TEECOM’s technical excellence by developing standards, workflows, templates, and documentation that teams can rely on, and by ensuring these systems are consistently applied across the firm. You’ll contribute to pursuit strategy, help teams start projects with strong alignment, provide code and product research, resolve complex coordination issues, and maintain TEECOM’s design standards, templates, and GitHub documentation.

You’ll support learning and growth across the firm by leading discipline training journeys, mentoring engineers and production team members, and contributing to scalable technical learning systems.

This position is ideal for leaders who drive impact through systems, documentation, and technical clarity—strengthening discipline consistency, reducing risk, and enabling high-quality, scalable delivery across the firm.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree preferred; advanced degree (MS or equivalent) a plus.
• 15+ years of discipline-specific experience in AEC or related professional services.
• 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.
• CTS-D (Audiovisual) — required by discipline

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience as a senior engineer, Project Lead, or subject matter expert responsible for QA/QC, standards, or technical oversight in Audiovisual/AV.
• CDT — preferred
• PE — Strongly preferred
• PMP — plus

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their dependents
• basic and voluntary life insurance
• short-term and long-term disability coverage
• a 401(k) plan with profit-sharing contributions
• paid parental leave
• lifestyle and legal benefits
• pet benefits
• performance-based bonuses
• Full-time exempt team members also enjoy flexible time off, and all employees receive nine scheduled paid holidays.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior