Project Lead / Architect Education Specialist - Remote

At Black Spectacles we’re on the hunt for teammates who:

• Owns it- comfortable taking responsibility for your work
• Take calculated risks and encourage others to do the same
• Are passionate about architecture and making an ambitious impact on the architecture and design community
• Takes care of your people
• Take a world-class approach to everything you do
• Love to work on small, remote teams
• Makes it safe to share ideas

If this sounds like you, we need to talk!

Black Spectacles is an ambitious group of 25 fully remote teammates with the goal of growing to 75 over the next two years to support our purpose of helping architects thrive in their careers, trying to achieve big things to support the architecture community.

At Black Spectacles, you’ll benefit from working with a team who lives and celebrates our values every day, and you can be sure that you will regularly see and feel the impact of your work. As a fully remote company you’ll benefit from working from home year round, and from quarterly company trips to keep you connected to your team.

Black Spectacles has been recognized by Great Place to Work and Built In as a great place to work, by the American Institute of Architects for the national impact we’re having on the profession of architecture, and has been recognized by Inc Magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in the country.

To keep that momentum going strong, we're on the hunt for an Architect to join the Black Spectacles learning team as a go-to subject matter expert, and leader/manager for the Learning content. As an Architect Educational Specialist, you’ll guide the direction of our learning content by advising on all things architecture as we improve our ARE test prep content and build new products.

You will:

• Maintain, evaluate, and support all instructional assets: quizzes, practice exams, flashcards, and study guides
• Be the subject matter expert and Lead effort for producing world class Learning content for architecture community
• Be responsible for the ongoing QA of Black Spectacles content, particularly ensuring the accuracy of practice exam and quiz questions and clarifying customer issues when needed
• Identify areas for improvement and assist in the design, development, and delivery of new course content or learning features that meet the needs of our customers
• Leverage learning theory and industry-standard best practices to update existing online course materials to meet learning objectives and ensure accuracy and engagement goals
• Collaborate with other Learning Team members, including learning designers and other architects, to research and develop content for study materials. You’ll be at the helm of ideating and writing test prep content and working with video and motion graphics teams to make tough architectural concepts come to life
• Hire, evaluate, and oversee architect consultants for project-based work

Requirements

You might be a great fit if:

• You love learning new things: you're excited to dive deep into reference materials and resources to determine the information that is the most pertinent to the exam, and how to present it
• You have a strong desire to help architects on their path to licensure
• You are a licensed architect with at least 8 years of experience
• You have experience designing, developing, and producing e-learning content, including storyboards and videos
• You have experience managing multiple commercial projects from start to finish (including bidding, SD, DD, and CA)
• You have experience leading and managing high performing teams
• You are skilled in communicating difficult concepts and theories related to architecture
• Preferred, but not required: you have experience teaching, mentoring, or helping others prepare for the ARE
• You're willing to be accountable to our customers’ success, you encourage and respect your teammates, and you're careful and thoughtful with your work. You also appreciate and value the power of great design

(Even if you don’t check all of these boxes, we’d still love to hear from you!)

Benefits

• 401k with Employer match
• 3 weeks of paid vacation
• Employee referral program
• Chicago based, fully remote remote role
• Flexible Savings Accounts and Health Savings Accounts
• Blue Cross Blue Shield Health, Dental, Vision, Short-term / Long-term Disability and Life insurance
• Team events & quarterly gatherings

Black Spectacles is an equal opportunity employer.

Black Spectacles is an equal opportunity employer.