Team Lead, Photography

Your Opportunity

The Team Lead, Photography leads the strategy and day-to-day operations of Stantec's MCPR photography program, ensuring photography is planned, produced, managed, and leveraged as a strategic brand and marketing asset.

The role balances program strategy, art direction, production management, and education, combining hands-on creative work with team leadership, to deliver photography that supports project storytelling, marketing priorities, and business objectives. It builds on current processes and standards to ensure consistency across the organization, and partners with MCPR teams across business units and regions to create photography that build awareness of Stantec's brand and expertise, strengthen industry positioning and drive growth.

Your Key Responsibilities

Program Strategy & Governance

• Develop and maintain the MCPR photography strategy, approach and standards, balancing a consistent enterprise approach with flexibility for different businesses and regions.
• Review existing workflows and build scalable workflows for photography planning, intake, prioritization, production and delivery.
• Prioritize requests using consistent criteria, including business impact, marketing value, timing, budget and support requirements, and define levels of photography support.
• Track program activity, budgets and photography spend, and keep projects on schedule
• Define how photography program success is measured, and track image usage and impact across the website, the Lens (intranet), marketing channels and business teams to inform priorities and investment.
• Maintain photography guidance, templates, tools, training and internal and external resources.
• Manage archiving, organization and distribution with Stantec's photography asset library, so approved images are easy to find, license-compliant and ready for reuse across the organization.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI, and integrate them into photography tools and image processing to improve efficiency, quality and consistency.

Photographer & Vendor Management

• Develop and maintain a qualified network of photography resources, including a photographer database
• Support photographer selection and contracting, including contract negotiation.
• Coordinate photography agreements, image licensing and usage requirements.

Brand & Art Direction

• Champion Stantec's photography standards and visual identity.
• Ensure photography supports project storytelling and broader brand objectives.
• Partner closely with Brand & Creative and marketing teams on image needs and art direction.
• Develops creative briefs and shot lists, directing photographers on key shoots, and selecting and approving final images.
• Review and approve imagery for the website and the Lens (intranet).
• Help teams determine when existing imagery, stock photography or commissioned photography is most appropriate.

Team Leadership & Management

• Lead, coach and develop a team of photography specialists, setting clear priorities, expectations and objectives aligned with business goals.
• Plan and allocate workload and resources across the team to balance concurrent priorities across BOUs and geographies.
• Hold regular check-ins, performance reviews and development conversations, and support each team member's growth.
• Participate in the onboarding and training of team members.
• Foster a collaborative and engaging team culture and encourage knowledge sharing.

Your Capabilities

• Committed to exceptional internal client service and skilled at navigating and leading within team-oriented environments.
• Detail-oriented and organized, with exceptional prioritization skills and the ability to balance conflicting priorities.
• Ability to effectively communicate with senior management, supervisors, peers, and direct reports.
• Demonstrated craft in photography, art direction, or both.
• Strong understanding of photography, branding, and AI.
• Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite is an asset.
• Available to work overtime to meet project deadlines on an as-needed basis
• Innovative mindset, with the curiosity and confidence to bring forward new ideas and approaches.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in marketing, photography or a related field.
• 7+ years of related work experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 2-3 years in a people leadership role.

* This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.