Architecture Studio Director

About this job

“Sunk Cost Fallacy: to continue with a project that you have already invested a lot of money, time, or effort into, even when continuing is not the best thing to do.” This job isn’t about trading the stresses of doing business on a broken model for another business that has the same issues. You shouldn’t do that, even for a lot more money. The biggest problem for business leaders like you is that you’re normally too busy firefighting staff disputes or issues with individual projects to do what you really should be doing. If you worked here, you’d be supported heavily on day to day stuff like this, meaning you can focus on those key things that make the practice move forward. If you didn’t feel trapped by your equity or the promise of it, would you trade jobs to somewhere you can do better, with less pressure, for more money and still have more time? Equity is up for grabs here and is probably worth more in a practice that makes significantly higher profits than almost anyone. All without ever handing over cash or having to deal with a risky buyout. That basic salary can go up by another 35% - 40% very quickly, and the bonus can bump it up much higher still. That could be your future secure in one quick move. Plan to buy that second home on the continent, plan for better cars, privately educating your kids, or to retire early. Everything is easier in an environment where you won’t be hand to mouth on finances or resources. Including making money, getting equity and freeing yourself up more personal time. This business has adapted itself to18 different sectors and gone from 3 to nearly 300 in not much more than a decade. So it’s no exaggeration to say that even the most experienced and successful in the sector can learn things here. The kinds of things you should be working on:

• Straight away, you’ll be freed from the day to day hustle of regional practice management.
• There’s money and resources here, and they do things the right way. The people managing the day to day will report to you. You’ll focus on a handful of things that you do best. They could be two out of the three below:
  • Design
  • Business Development
  • Bidding or marketing (there’s a very good team there to help)You’ll be in control of the regional strategy and have a hand in the national strategy for the practice.

There’s a brilliant Technical team with good quality technical leadership in place already, and incredible design support available too. It’ll be up to you to build on that with the practice moving forwards in a design lead direction. Here’s what you’ll need:

• Previous experience in a Senior Management role in Architecture. (Whether that’s as a non-statutory Director, Equity Director, Associate Director or if it’s your own business).
• You’re the kind of person who enjoys winning fees and clients.
• You could be a Qualified Architect, or have a Technician background or an Architectural Designer background.

How to find out more: You can either message me (Matt Kirk) on LinkedIn, or email Matt@theannoyingrecruiter.com directly if you want more information. You can call me too 07595 879 857. CV not up to date? No problem, we can sort that sort of thing out later, and may not need one at all.