Principal, Discipline Lead - Audiovisual

About the Position
The Principal, Discipline Lead is a senior technical leadership position responsible for advancing discipline standards, best practices, documentation, training, and design quality across the firm. As a member of TEECOM’s Engineering Team, you’ll help reduce firmwide risk, strengthen project delivery, and ensure our systems scale effectively. You’ll lead through expertise and clarity—setting direction for how the discipline is practiced, guiding complex design decisions, and maintaining high standards across teams and projects.
You’ll serve as the firm’s subject matter expert for your discipline, providing judgment on design challenges, conducting design and QA/QC reviews, and supporting project teams with early guidance. You’ll shape TEECOM’s technical excellence by developing standards, workflows, templates, and documentation that teams can rely on, and by ensuring these systems are consistently applied across the firm. You’ll contribute to pursuit strategy, help teams start projects with strong alignment, provide code and product research, resolve complex coordination issues, and maintain TEECOM’s design standards, templates, and GitHub documentation.
You’ll support learning and growth across the firm by leading discipline training journeys, mentoring engineers and production team members, and contributing to scalable technical learning systems.
This position is ideal for leaders who drive impact through systems, documentation, and technical clarity—strengthening discipline consistency, reducing risk, and enabling high-quality, scalable delivery across the firm.

Leadership, Strategy, and Alignment

• As a Discipline Lead, your impact comes from improving the systems, standards, and workflows that drive discipline consistency, quality, and firmwide alignment. You contribute in three key ways:
Lead Discipline Direction and Technical Standards
• You elevate design quality by defining and upholding discipline standards, templates, and workflows that teams can apply reliably.
• You strengthen project decisions by providing discipline-level judgment on complex or ambiguous design questions.
• You reduce rework and improve scalability by identifying gaps in tools and processes and driving discipline-wide improvements.
Mentor and Develop Team Members Across the Discipline
• You build capability through clear feedback, disciplined design reviews, and targeted development.
• You strengthen engineering judgment by clarifying assumptions, trade-offs, and decision rationale.
• You enhance firmwide decision-making by advising leaders on discipline risks, implications, and strategic design approaches.
• You advance TEECOM’s learning system by guiding the documentation, expectations, and standards taught through training journeys.
Improve the TEECOM System
• You strengthen firmwide consistency by ensuring discipline standards, documentation practices, and workflows are applied across teams.
• You elevate discipline execution by authoring clear, high-quality documentation and Pull Requests that improve clarity and reduce rework.
• You improve cross-team alignment by working with Group Leads and Team Leads so discipline expectations drive everyday decisions and project delivery.
• You enhance TEECOM’s system by refining tools, removing workflow friction, and enabling scalable, efficient discipline practices.

What Success in this Position Looks Like

• You ensure discipline standards, templates, and workflows are clear, current, and consistently applied across all project teams.
• You ensure discipline standards are clear, current, and adaptable to client-specific requirements while maintaining firmwide consistency.
• You strengthen design quality firmwide through proactive guidance, early risk identification, and effective QA/QC oversight.
• You define and achieve discipline priorities that advance documentation, training, and quality objectives aligned with company Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
• You develop engineers and production team members through mentorship that improves judgment, design capability, and adherence to best practices.
• You maintain scalable training resources, including training journeys and discipline guidance, that support onboarding and continuous learning.
• You research codes for the project delivery team and provide code interpretations, along with educating the team when codes change.
• You author and review high-quality documentation and Pull Requests that improve clarity, reduce rework, and strengthen discipline workflows and standards.
• You provide timely discipline support that improves project alignment, consistency, and delivery outcomes.
• You enhance pursuit success by contributing discipline expertise, narratives, and st