Team Lead, Photography

Your Opportunity

Are you ready to work alongside talented, creative colleagues, make a meaningful impact in your community, and build your career? Meet Stantec. Ranked among the world’s most sustainable companies, we’re known for delivering some of the most exciting and innovative projects across the globe with the strength of more than 34,000 team members. And we want you on our team.

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

The role balances programme 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 organisation, and partners with marketing and communications teams across business units and regions to create photography that builds awareness of Stantec's brand and expertise, strengthens industry positioning and drives growth.

We’re looking for someone to be based in either Perth, Western Australia or Wellington, New Zealand.

Reporting to the Director, Brand & Creative, some of the activities you’ll focus your energy on include, but are not limited to:

Programme Strategy & Governance

·         Develop and maintain the global 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, prioritisation, production and delivery.

·         Prioritise requests using consistent criteria, including business impact, marketing value, timing, budget and support requirements, and define levels of photography support.

·         Track programme activity, budgets and photography spend, and keep projects on schedule.

·         Define how photography programme success is measured, and track image usage and impact across the website, our intranet, marketing channels and business teams to inform priorities and investment.

• Maintain photography guidance, templates, tools, training and internal and external resources.

·         Manage archiving, organisation and distribution through Stantec's photography asset library, so approved images are easy to find, licence-compliant and ready for reuse across the organisation.

• 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.

·         Develop creative briefs and shot lists, direct photographers on key shoots, and select and approve final images.

·         Review and approve imagery for the website and our 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 business units 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.

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.

Other Requirements:

·         Committed to exceptional internal client service and skilled at navigating and leading within team-oriented environments.

·       Detail oriented and organised, with exceptional prioritisation 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.

·       Flexibility to meet key deadlines when needed.

·         Innovative mindset, with the curiosity and confidence to bring forward new ideas and approaches.

What we offer  

At Stantec, we take your growth and fulfilment seriously. We’re proud to offer many supportive benefits, including: 

  Professional development and support 

• Flexible working arrangements, including purchasing up to an extra four weeks of leave and provision for school term contracts, part-time, and job sharing 

• Learning and talent development programmes, including global, online, and on-the-job opportunities 

• Professional memberships 

• Service recognition awards 

• Mentorship 

  Wellbeing and connection opportunities 

• Health insurance, income continuance insurance, and life insurance 

• Employee assistance program 

• Developing Professionals Group, a global network for those with under 10 years of experience 

• Office Social Club and events 

 About us 

 We’ve been serving our clients and communities in Aotearoa New Zealand for over 125 years. With almost 900 professionals, our team is based in the main cities and throughout the regions. We collaborate across disciplines and sectors to bring buildings, energy, water, environmental, and transport projects to life.  

Globally, Stantec unites approximately 34,000 employees working in over 450 locations across six continents. Our work from initial project concept and planning through design, construction, and commissioning begins at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships. 

Please apply directly online

International applications will not be accepted

Please note, no agency CVs will be excepted