What are the responsibilities and job description for the Architectural Discipline Leader position at TSP, Inc. - Architecture | Engineering | Planning?
As the discipline leader, you will provide strategic, operational, and people leadership for the architectural discipline in Sioux Falls, ensuring high-quality project delivery, strong staff development, and effective collaboration across the organization. This role balances discipline-wide leadership with hands-on project involvement while fostering a culture of accountability, learning, and teamwork.
Essential Functions:
People & Discipline Leadership
- Lead, coach, mentor, and support discipline staff with enthusiasm and intention, creating an environment where individuals are motivated to grow, contribute, and excel.
- Champion a positive, inclusive, and high-performing culture that reflects firm values and encourages collaboration, trust, and accountability.
- Support recruitment, onboarding, retention, and succession planning to attract and develop top talent.
- Partner with team members to create and guide individual career development plans, supporting ongoing learning, continuing education, and purposeful career progression.
- Proactively manage staffing levels, skill mix, and workload distribution to ensure staff are challenged, supported and positioned for success.
- Perform core people-management activities including time and utilization review, salary discussions, and performance evaluations.
Project Delivery
- Support and participate in discipline-related project work while maintaining accountability for overall discipline performance, including design quality, responsiveness, client satisfaction, and alignment with firm standards.
- Ensure projects are executed in accordance with scope, schedule, and budget.
- Provide technical oversight to ensure consistency, quality, and integrity of discipline deliverables.
- Collaborate with discipline leads, project managers, and firm leadership to anticipate resource needs and resolve challenges.
- Actively promote cross-discipline coordination to support integrated project delivery.
- Strengthen client relationships through technical leadership awareness, and a solutions-oriented approach.
- Advance discipline standards, tools, and delivery approaches, including cultivating relationships with “Friends in the Industry” and supporting discipline-specific delivery methods such as design-build collaborations.
Anticipated Attributes and Expectations
- People-centered leader with energy, optimism, and a coaching mindset, who inspires and motivates others.
- Able to balance project responsibilities with discipline and leadership priorities while prioritizing competing demands.
- Collaborative and flexible, with a willingness to move work and share resources across the organization.
- Strong commitment to quality, continuous improvement, and professional growth of others.
- Commitment to TSP’s Core Values: We Before Me, Design It Like We Own It, Committed To Our Craft
Qualifications:
- Licensed professional
- Strong presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills