Director of Project Management

Job Description

Job Description

RAYMOND SEARCH GROUP

DIRECTOR OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Confidential Client - South Florida (Broward County)

Full-Time, In-Studio - $145,000 to $175,000 Base + Benefits - Relocation Available

A director seat at an award-winning South Florida architecture firm: lead a team of six project managers, own portfolio performance, work directly with the principals, and earn a real path to ownership.

YOUR TEAM - 6 Project Managers - Four of them senior

FOCUS SECTOR - Public & Municipal - Parks, public safety, civic

CAREER RUNWAY - Path to Ownership - Earned through leadership

THE OPPORTUNITY

Our client is a highly respected, award-winning architecture firm with more than two decades of work for South Florida's public owners: municipal facilities, public safety, parks and recreation, education and community buildings. The founder has handed leadership to the current principals, and the firm is now building its leadership bench for the next stage of growth.

The principals are hiring a Director of Project Management to take day-to-day project and architectural leadership off their plates. This is not a senior project manager seat with a larger title. You will lead a team of six project managers, four of them senior. Your primary output is their performance, and the first measure of success is simple: within six months, the PMs come to you first.

THE FIRM

A collaborative, open-door studio of roughly twenty professionals that has intentionally protected its culture while building a portfolio of public work that outlasts market cycles. Repeat public-sector relationships, a clear pipeline, and principals who want a partner in running the practice rather than another pair of hands. Client identity is disclosed to qualified candidates under confidentiality.

THE MANDATE

• Directly manage and mentor the firm's six project managers

• Set consistent project management expectations and procedures, and hold the team to them

• Review project status, schedules, budgets, staffing and workload across the portfolio

• Hold PMs accountable for fee, schedule and quality

• Identify troubled projects early, before they reach the principals

• Assign the right people to the right work and balance the studio's load

• Stand alongside the principals with key public-sector clients and on pursuits

• Bring design leadership where the work calls for it

FIRST-YEAR SCOREBOARD

By ninety days, every project manager reports to you and performance reviews run on a fixed cadence. By six months, procedures are documented and in use, and no project has reached the principals in trouble without your early warning. By twelve months, fee, schedule and quality performance are measurably better, at least one PM has grown under your leadership, and the principals have their time back for growth and key clients.

WHO FITS

You are an active Florida Registered Architect with at least eight years of architectural and project management experience, ideally ten or more, who has already led other project managers and wants a seat where that is the job, not a side duty. You are comfortable owning fee and schedule across a portfolio, you can walk into a city commission or a fire chief's office as a peer, and you can still design when the work needs it.

• Active Florida Registered Architect; NCARB certification a plus

• Direct experience managing project managers, with specific results

• Portfolio-level ownership of fee, schedule, budget and staffing

• Public-sector delivery under qualifications-based selection

• Design authorship in your portfolio

• Florida Building Code command; Revit, AutoCAD and Bluebeam fluency

• The ambition to earn equity, and the patience to earn it through performance

This seat is not for you if you want to keep running your own projects rather than leading the people who run them, if you prefer remote or hybrid work, or if you expect guaranteed equity on day one.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

• Base salary of $145,000 to $175,000, calibrated to the depth of your leadership record

• 100% employer-paid health, dental and vision insurance for the employee

• 401(k) retirement plan

• Generous paid time off and paid holidays

• Annual professional development stipend and covered professional memberships

• Relocation assistance available for top candidates committing to Broward County

• A long-term, earned path to firm equity based on leadership impact

CONFIDENTIAL PROCESS

This search is conducted exclusively by Raymond Search Group. All inquiries are held in strict confidence, and the client's identity is shared with qualified candidates under confidentiality.

YOUR NEXT STEP

One conversation. Fifteen minutes. Complete confidence. Jeff Raymond | Raymond Search Group | View email address on ziprecruiter.com | View phone number on ziprecruiter.com

Our client is an equal opportunity employer. Candidates are considered without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, disability status, veteran status, or any other legally protected class.