Role Overview
The Storytelling Strategist supports the Storytelling Lead in elevating design excellence, gathering human stories, and shaping the way Page/Stantec understands and communicates impact. The ideal candidate is a balance of the left and right brain, excelling and project management as well as creative projects. The candidate is curious, empathetic, confident with groups, skilled in narrative structure, and comfortable working alongside designers, clients, and communities. This position is not a marketing role. It sits inside the Design Exchange and is directly tied to design process, project excellence, and client experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Document the full life cycle of strategic projects, from early design through completion, tracking design evolution, key decisions, lessons learned, and team intent.
- Support design competitions through narrative development and message alignment and assist in preparing presentation and submission materials.
- Coordinate the public-facing deliverable showcasing The Stanleys, the firm’s internal design awards program.
- Gather and shape sustainability, environmental, and social impact stories.
- Partner with firm leaders to shape messaging for new services and emerging sectors.
- Project-manage special projects related to design impact documentation and service messaging, including content development, coordination, and internal alignment.
- Develop strategic messaging and long-form content for external clients, including brand positioning, technical publications, fundraising campaigns, and website content.
- Support community and stakeholder listening sessions and interviews. Document and synthesize insights to inform visioning, alignment, and project foundations.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a related creative or design-based field
- Minimum of 5 years of experience developing narrative content for complex projects or organizations
- Experience with InDesign and comfort working with video and audio content, including basic editing
- Excellent project management and organizational skills, comfort managing multiple workstreams
- Excellent verbal, written, and digital communication skills
- Comfortable interviewing a wide range of people across communities and client groups
- Strong synthesis abilities — able to distill themes from complex conversations
- Experience supporting workshops or facilitating group dialogue
- Ability to collaborate across disciplines and communicate with design teams
- Curiosity, cultural awareness, and interest in the human side of design
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.
About Stantec
Stantec is a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.
About UsStantec’s Buildings team is on a mission to become the world’s leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, consultants, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. Our collaborative culture and our innovative, sustainable approach to projects help us create buildings that matter to our world.
Together, we are enhancing the quality of life globally through design.
Join us and design your place with Stantec.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in a related creative or design-based field
- Minimum of 5 years of experience developing narrative content for complex projects or organizations
- Experience with InDesign and comfort working with video and audio content, including basic editing
- Excellent project management and organizational skills, comfort managing multiple workstreams
- Excellent verbal, written, and digital communication skills
- Comfortable interviewing a wide range of people across communities and client groups
- Strong synthesis abilities -- able to distill themes from complex conversations
- Experience supporting workshops or facilitating group dialogue
- Ability to collaborate across disciplines and communicate with design teams
- Curiosity, cultural awareness, and interest in the human side of design
What We Do
We're active members of the communities we serve. That's why at Stantec, we always design with community in mind. The Stantec community unites approximately 22,000 employees working in over 350 locations across six continents. We collaborate across disciplines and industries to bring buildings, energy and resource, environmental, and infrastructure projects to life. Our work—engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying, environmental sciences, project management, and project economics, from initial project concept and planning through design, construction, and commissioning—begins at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships. Our local strength, knowledge, and relationships, coupled with our world-class expertise, have allowed us to go anywhere to meet our clients' needs in more creative and personalized ways. With a long-term commitment to the people and places we serve, Stantec has the unique ability to connect to projects on a personal level and advance the quality of life in communities across the globe.
