Director of Architecture Learning and Experience

At Black Spectacles we have ambitions plans to help support the architecture community, and we need an architect to help us lead that work, and manage and grow our teams who are delivering that work. We're on the hunt for a Director of Architecture Learning and Experience to lead our learning and products strategy and teams to help us achieve our ambitions.

At Black Spectacles we’re on the hunt for teammates who:

• Are passionate about architecture and making an ambitious impact on the architecture and design community.
• Love to work on small, remote teams
• Owns it- comfortable taking responsibility for your work
• Take calculated risks and encourage others to do the same
• Take a world-class approach to everything you do
• Makes it safe to share ideas
• Takes care of your people

If this sounds like you, we need to talk!

Black Spectacles is an ambitious group of 25 fully remote teammates with the goal of growing to 75 over the next two years to support our purpose of helping architects thrive in their careers, trying to achieve big things to support the architecture community.

At Black Spectacles, you’ll benefit from working with a team who lives and celebrates our values every day, and you can be sure that you will regularly see and feel the impact of your work. As a fully remote company you’ll benefit from working from home year round, and from quarterly company trips to keep you connected to your team.

Black Spectacles has been recognized by Great Place to Work and Built In as a great place to work, by the American Institute of Architects for the national impact we’re having on the profession of architecture, and has been recognized by Inc Magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in the country.

You will:

• Own our learning product and software product strategy
• Oversee the production of learning content and execution of software product roadmap
• Manage the team producing all of our learning content, including videos, quizzes, and practice exams
• Hire, evaluate, and oversee architect consultants for project-based work
• Establish and Enforce quality standards for the learning content
• Manage programs aligned towards ongoing content improvement, new content production and product roadmap launches

Requirements

You might be a great fit if:

• You are a licensed architect with at least 10 years of experience
• You have experience leading and managing high performing teams
• You have experience managing multiple commercial projects from start to finish (including bidding, SD, DD, and CA)
• You love learning new things: you're excited to dive deep into reference materials and resources to determine the information that is the most pertinent to the exam, and how to present it.
• You are skilled in communicating difficult concepts and theories related to architecture
• You're willing to be accountable to our customers’ success, you encourage and respect your teammates, and you're careful and thoughtful with your work. You also appreciate and value the power of great design.
• You have a strong desire to help architects on their path to licensure
• Preferred, but not required: you have experience designing, developing, and producing e-learning content, including storyboards and videos
• Preferred, but not required: you have experience teaching, mentoring, or helping others prepare for the ARE.

(Even if you don’t check all of these boxes, we’d still love to hear from you!)

Benefits

• Chicago based, fully remote remote role
• 3 weeks of paid vacation
• Blue Cross Blue Shield Health, Dental, Vision, Short-term / Long-term Disability and Life insurance
• Flexible Savings Accounts and Health Savings Accounts
• 401k with Employer match
• Employee referral program
• Team events & quarterly gatherings

Black Spectacles is an equal opportunity employer.

Black Spectacles is an equal opportunity employer.