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Technology Project Manager - Design Technology

Los Angeles, California, United States

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.

Our Design Technology team has an opening for a Technology Project Manager - Design Technology in our Los Angeles studio.

About Design Technology at DLR Group

DLR Group’s Design Technology team advances the digital practice of design across our integrated architecture, engineering, and interiors teams. The team supports and develops the technologies, standards, workflows, and tools that enable our designers to work more effectively and solve increasingly complex challenges.

Our multidisciplinary team brings together expertise in digital practice, research and development, and client-facing digital services, with capabilities spanning BIM, computational design, reality capture, GIS, automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning, digital review, connected BIM, and design visualization.

Position Summary

As a Technology Project Manager – Design Technology at DLR Group, you will lead the definition and coordination of technology projects that support our community of architects, interior designers, and engineers. Blending project management with product thinking, you will work with stakeholders to identify business needs, define requirements, shape project scope, and prepare solutions for development. This role is ideal for a strategic, collaborative leader who can translate complex workflows into clear, actionable technology initiatives.

What You Will Do

  • Partner with architects, interior designers, engineers, and practice leaders to understand workflows, challenges, and opportunities for new or improved technology solutions
  • Define project goals, problem statements, requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for Design Technology initiatives
  • Develop project scope, schedules, resource needs, and delivery plans while identifying trade-offs related to cost, timing, and functionality
  • Create development-ready project packages, including user workflows, wireframes or mockups, data requirements, dependencies, and supporting documentation
  • Collaborate with software developers early in the process to validate technical feasibility, clarify requirements, and support project estimating
  • Identify project risks and dependencies across IT, data, security, and other business functions and develop appropriate mitigation plans
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for requirements clarification as projects move from discovery and design into development
  • Coordinate user acceptance testing, release readiness, stakeholder communication, and launch activities
  • Manage changes in project scope and communicate impacts to timelines, resources, and delivery expectations
  • Establish and maintain project management, requirements, and documentation standards while supporting team members in managing smaller technology initiatives

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in technology, information systems, business, or a related field
  • At least 5 years of professional experience managing IT, software development, or technology implementation projects
  • Experience gathering and documenting business and technical requirements, including user stories and acceptance criteria
  • Demonstrated experience managing project scope, schedules, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations
  • Working knowledge of Agile and Scrum methodologies
  • Experience collaborating with software development teams and technical stakeholders
  • Proficiency with project and work management platforms such as Azure DevOps, Jira, Planner, or similar tools
  • Experience with wireframing, process mapping, or diagramming tools such as Figma, Visio, Miro, or similar
  • Strong critical thinking and complex problem-solving skills with the ability to evaluate multiple perspectives and develop practical solutions
  • Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills with the ability to communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience implementing enterprise-wide technology programs or software solutions
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams or coordinating work across multiple stakeholder groups
  • Familiarity with architecture, interior design, engineering, or other design-industry workflows
  • Familiarity with technologies and platforms commonly used in the AEC industry, including Revit, Rhino, BIM, or related tools
  • PMP, ITIL, or ITSM certification
  • Agile or product management certification, such as PMI-ACP, CSPO, or equivalent
  • Experience with product discovery, product ownership, or minimum viable product definition
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Teams

#LI-DNI

Our comprehensive Benefits at DLR Group include medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flex spending, paid holidays, and paid time off. We also offer a 401(k) plan, employee stock ownership, and bonus opportunities. Compensation considerations are based on location, experience, and skills. The suggested pay range for this position is:

Pay Range

$125,000 - $150,000 USD

DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.

We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.

DLR Group follows a four-day in-office work model, with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.

 

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