About /slantis

/slantis is a technology and architecture company joining forces with AEC organizations to empower their built projects with cutting-edge BIM tech, so they succeed! We are a disruptive, innovative, and creative gang, helping our clients make their work smarter, faster, and more efficient!

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Role Overview

We are looking for a BIM & Automation Director to lead the long-term direction of the BIM & Automation practice by shaping and executing the BIM & Automation roadmap. The role owns the strategic direction of BIM and Automation services at Slantis, setting the standard, growing the people, building the knowledge base, and impacting the Slantis team, our clients, and the industry as a whole through technical leadership.

This role is for a leader who inspires and builds people, systems, and culture through technical expertise.

Responsibilities

Strategy for BIM & Automation

• Own service direction, offering evolution, and the long-term roadmap for BIM and Automation at Slantis.

• Define and continuously elevate standards of knowledge and excellence across all workstreams.

• Drive BIM &Automation adoption and distribution across all teams at slantis, this role sets the bar, not just describes it.

Knowledge Systems

• Own the knowledge portal and the structure that keeps it current, useful, and accessible.

• Ensure practice knowledge reaches the full Slantis team

• Build the systems and habits that make knowledge sharing the default, not the exception.

Applied Research

• Curate and validate innovations emerging from project work and the broader AEC technology space.

• Formalize validated approaches into practice standards and reusable delivery assets.

• Scale and propagate what works

Leadership & Talent Development

• Own onboarding content, development paths, and role definitions for the practice.

• Reduce ramp-up time through structured onboarding, mentoring, and training systems integrated with live project work.

• Coach Technical Leads and Technical Directors across technical, strategic, and professional dimensions.

• Build leaders who can operate autonomously.

Positioning & Authority Building

• Builds a trusted voice (and team!) wide and Industry wide

• Owns practice-aligned marketing content (in partnership with Marketing).

• Build client relationships through technical authority (outcome: trust and deeper engagements and evolution partnerships)

• Participate in early-stage client meetings, pre-sales, and solution shaping for technically complex engagements.

• Build community and professional network within the AEC technology space (internally and industry-wide)

• Represent Slantis externally through events, publications, and industry conversations, turning visibility into authority.

• Partner with Marketing to develop practice-aligned content that positions Slantis as a technical thought leader.

Delivery Enablement

• Align practice capabilities with strategic direction so the people executing the work are never operating without the right tools, knowledge, or technical backing.

• Enable business units to elevate execution by bringing deep technical expertise directly to the teams that need it, when they need it.

• Turn recurring technical problems into reusable solutions — so troubleshooting builds the practice, not just fixes the project.

• Contribute to growing client partnerships through strategic farming — deepening relationships and identifying opportunities from within ongoing engagements.

Competencies & Skills

• AEC background (required) Direct experience in architecture, engineering, or AEC technology consulting. Understands how design firms work from the inside.

• Experience (required) 10+ years across BIM, digital delivery, or technical leadership roles. Track record of leading practices or teams, not just doing the work.

• Technical depth (required) Deep fluency in BIM workflows, parametric design, and automation tooling — Revit, Dynamo, Grasshopper, APIs, and adjacent ecosystems.

• Leadership (required) Proven ability to develop autonomous leaders. Comfortable giving hard feedback, setting expectations, and coaching across levels in professional services or consulting environments.

• Systems thinking (required) Builds repeatable systems, not one-off solutions. Designs for scale and sustainability from the start. Has done this in fast-growing environments.

• Communication (required) English C1+. Can move between a whiteboard with an engineer and a strategic conversation with a client principal without losing clarity.

• Market presence (required) Active in the AEC technology community, or ready and credible enough to become a visible voice within it.

• Computational design (preferred) Fluent in computational design ecosystems and adjacent tooling beyond the core BIM stack.

• Distributed teams (preferred) Experience working across studios, countries, or time zones. Comfortable operating in a multi-country delivery model.

What Success Looks Like

• A BIM & Automation practice with a clear identity, philosophy and strategic roadmap

• Slantis is recognized as a technical authority in AEC leading the way.

• Clients who ask for Slantis by name because of the technical confidence.

• A strong technical employer brand with inbound talent flow.

• Delivery Teams (Hives) can deliver more work better thanks to technical support.

• Technical Leads and Directors who can operate without constant escalation.

The perks of being a /slanter

• Relational reward, meaningful, challenging work, and self-development with mentoring.

• Formal and informal learning opportunities, conferences, and resources.

• Flexibility and work-life balance policies.

• /slantis on tour, on-site client support, and traveling between our offices opportunities.

• The Slanter experience, lunch-and-learn, your birthday, and company gatherings.

Our Values

We bring people to our team that care about our mission to revolutionize the AEC industry through technology, and who feel aligned with our values:

The /slantis culture is one of collaboration, creativity, and diverse perspectives. We are committed to building and fostering an inclusive environment for everyone.