Studio Director — Architecture & Design Leader (Licensed AOR)

Blueprint Hires; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental

Vision

Additional PTO weeks

Job summary

Blueprint Hires is seeking a Studio Director for a Los Angeles–based multidisciplinary studio delivering architecture, landscape, and interior design. You will lead architecture and design delivery across projects in California, bridging firm leadership and project teams to ensure design vision, quality, coordination, and successful delivery from schematic design through construction.

The ideal candidate is a California-licensed Architect with proven leadership in design, documentation,

Qualifications

• California-licensed Architect; eligible to serve as Architect of Record.
• Significant experience leading projects through design, documentation, permitting, and construction.
• Strong expertise in construction documentation, detailing, building systems, codes, consultant coordination, budgets, schedules, and team leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple projects and teams, establishing priorities, schedules, responsibilities, and deliverables.
• Oversee drawings, specifications, permitting, documentation, consultant coordination, and quality.
• Serve as Architect of Record, reviewing work for code, regulatory, professional, and permitting compliance.
• Coordinate structural, MEP, civil, landscape, interiors, and consultants to resolve conflicts.
• Support budgets, staffing, contracts, proposals, construction administration, RFIs, submittals, site visits, and design decisions.

Skills

Project leadership

Coordination

Code compliance

Building systems

Budgets & scheduling

Education

Architectural licensure (California)

Job description

Blueprint Hires is seeking a Studio Director for a Los Angeles–based multidisciplinary studio delivering architecture, landscape, and interior design. You will lead architecture and design delivery across projects in California, bridging firm leadership and project teams to ensure design vision, quality, coordination, and successful delivery from schematic design through construction.

The ideal candidate is a California-licensed Architect with proven leadership in design, documentation,