Studio Manager - Architecture & Interior Design

The Studio Manager leads the day-to-day performance and development of LSI’s Architecture & Interior Design Studios, helping strengthen the leadership structure needed to support the firm’s continued growth. This role is accountable for people leadership, project execution, technical quality, resource management, and studio operations, ensuring teams have the direction, resources, and accountability needed to deliver high-quality work on schedule and within budget.

We are looking for an experienced professional who combines technical excellence and design judgment with emotional intelligence, financial discipline, and strong people leadership. The right leader brings clarity to complexity, knows how to bring out the best in people, and has the technical depth to guide teams through complex challenges without becoming the person every decision or solution depends on. They delegate effectively, build trust, develop others’ judgment and capabilities, and create clear accountability so both people and projects perform consistently.

Success in this role requires a servant-leader mindset: confident without ego, decisive without being controlling, and committed to creating an environment where people can grow, take ownership, and do their best work. The result is a studio where quality, accountability, creativity, and collaboration reinforce one another.

• Lead the day-to-day operations of the Architecture & Interior Design Studios and serve as the primary point of contact for routine studio questions and decisions.
• Directly manage studio staff, with accountability for performance, development, workload, one-on-one coaching, and day-to-day leadership.
• Lead regular studio meetings and communicate priorities, deadlines, project risks, and firm initiatives clearly and consistently.
• Support onboarding, identify training and professional development needs, provide timely feedback, and contribute to formal performance evaluations.
• Build a collaborative, accountable, solutions-oriented culture aligned with LSI's mission, vision, values, and operating standards.
• Maintain visibility into the health of all Architecture & Interior Design projects, including schedule, budget, staffing, scope, deliverables, and client commitments.
• Coordinate staffing with Operations to balance workload, capacity, utilization, project needs, and staff development.
• Hold Project Managers accountable for maintaining current project schedules, budgets, forecasts, staffing plans, and key client commitments.
• Identify project and resource risks early, work with Project Managers to establish corrective action, and escape material concerns appropriately.
• Forecast upcoming resource needs and resolve routine staffing or scheduling conflicts before they affect project delivery.

• Serve as a senior technical resource for Architecture & Interior Design project teams.
• Maintain and enforce studio standards for QA/QC, construction documentation, code compliance, constructability, consultant coordination, permitting, and construction administration.
• Review complex technical issues and guide teams toward practical, coordinated solutions without taking over responsibilities that belong with Project Managers or project teams.
• Ensure appropriate QA/QC reviews occur at defined project milestones and that identified issues are resolved before deliverables are issued.
• Develop technical capability throughout the studio through mentoring, knowledge sharing, standards, templates, best practices, and training.
• Actively manage the operational drivers of studio financial performance, including utilization, LER, project budgets, schedules, staffing plans, margins, forecasting, billing, and other defined KPIs.
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