Principal Design Lead

1 day ago


Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Stantec Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year

Stantec Buildings is on a mission to become the world's leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. We take an innovative, collaborative approach to projects, sharing a common belief that sustainable design for the built environment can make the world a better place for future generations. Join us and design your place with Stantec.

We are looking for an inspiring design leader; a well-rounded practitioner with a commitment to design excellence, sustainability, and collaboration, to take on the role of Principal, Business Centre (BC) Design Lead for British Columbia. In this role you will be working directly with our British Columbia region Practice and Operations Leaders as well as our Design Director, Canada to help shape and support design excellence throughout the British Columbia region. You will implement established design excellence initiatives to support Stantec's mission to become the world's leading integrated design practice.

Key Responsibilities

  • Actively engage with the regional practice, driving design culture, quality and brand across all sectors.
  • Win and deliver design forward projects by advancing design delivery through integrated design, modeling, coordination, and documentation.
  • Support and mentor Designers in the regional practice.
  • Engage in the attraction and retention of design talent, to support high performance teams.
  • Support a culture of design discourse, learning, professional development, and growth.
  • Partner with regional Practice and Operational Leadership to ensure every project has an empowered Design champion
  • Organize, schedule, conduct and document Project Pin-Ups to ensure work aligns with our Five Principles of Design Excellence and establish sustainable design through multi-disciplinary reviews. Target 25 reviews through a calendar year.
  • Advance Design -Thinking actively participating in the practice wide Design Forum and Design Excellence calls, and regional town halls.
  • Support digital design practice and delivery in collaboration with the Design Computing team.
  • Support sustainable design processes to lower energy demand, embodied and operational carbon in collaboration with the Carbon and Climate team.
  • Advance a design portfolio of outstanding projects, positioning and winning work with high design potential, designing, delivering, documenting, photographing, publishing, presenting, and submitting for design awards obtaining recognition for Design Excellence.
  • Participate and support local practice engagement in the academies with future practitioners teaching, lecturing, speaking, and critiquing.


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