The Talent Manager serves as a strategic partner and trusted advisor to studio leadership—championing the full employee lifecycle, aligning people strategy with business objectives, and fostering a culture of growth, engagement, and development across the organization in Brazil.
In this dual strategic and hands-on role, the Talent Manager ensures that HR programs, local processes, and people focused initiatives strengthen studio performance and support a positive, inclusive culture. This includes translating global HR and L&D strategies into locally relevant actions, advising leaders on organizational priorities, and ensuring compliance with the studio contracts between partners, Brazilian laws, benefits practices, and employment standards. On role, the Talent Manager ensures that Talent programs, local processes, and people focused initiatives strengthen studio performance and support a positive, inclusive culture. This includes translating global HR and L&D strategies into locally relevant actions, advising leaders on organizational priorities, and ensuring compliance with Brazilian laws, benefits practices, and employment standards.
What we offer:
- Career growth
- Learning & Development opportunities
- Competitive salary (range between R$18,000/month and R$22,000/month)
- Discretionary annual performance bonus
- Wellness: monthly gym passes and other wellness initiatives
Key Responsibilities
- Acts as a trusted advisor to studio leadership, with primary responsibilities including all aspects of advancing the firm’s talent strategy, culture, and brand.
- Collaborates with the leadership team to develop and execute talent strategies aligned with current and future needs.
- Leads talent processes, including recruiting, onboarding, partner/associate relations, compensation guidance, routine administrative benefits support, career development, performance management guidance, recognition, record maintenance, and administration.
- Manages the talent acquisition process by partnering with leadership across practices to understand the skills and competencies required for open roles, recruiting, interviewing, negotiating with candidates, and executing offers.
- Provides support, guidance, and mentorship to partners/associates on delivering feedback, navigating difficult conversations, and mediating conflicts.
- Collaborates with leadership teams to ensure equity across all talent processes, delivering equitable outcomes in support of the firm’s JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) goals.
- Demonstrates active listening, flexibility, critical thinking, emotional intelligence, conflict resolution, organization, teamwork, confidentiality, leadership, and outstanding partner/associate relationship skills.
- Exhibits excellent interpersonal and client service skills.
- Reviews work for accuracy, omissions, and clarity, and partners with Corporate HR to implement company policies.
- Experience in the services industry and/or design industry is preferable
Summary of Technical Competencies and Certifications
Knowledge and Skills:
- Proficiency in Microsoft Suite, including Teams
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, with the ability to assess, guide, and influence solutions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ensuring clarity and conciseness
- Experience with data analysis and compliance
- Experience using UKG Pro or similar HRIS products
- Experience in recruitment outreach, interviewing, and selection
Software:
- UKG Pro (preferred)
- Microsoft Office and Adobe Suite
Education, Licenses, and Certifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in related fields
Languages:
- English required
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- Fluent English (English required)
- Proficiency in Microsoft Suite, including Teams and Microsoft Office
- Experience using UKG Pro or similar HRIS products
- Experience in recruitment outreach, interviewing, and selection
- Experience with data analysis and compliance
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence, and conflict resolution
- Knowledge of Brazilian employment law, benefits practices, and contract compliance
- Experience providing performance management guidance, coaching, and career development support
- Experience in the services and/or design industry
- Familiarity with Adobe Suite
Perkins&Will Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Perkins&Will and has not been reviewed or approved by Perkins&Will.
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Inclusive Benefits Coverage — Inclusive health benefits extend to same-sex spouses and domestic partners and include coverage for gender confirmation surgery, reinforced by repeated external recognition for LGBTQ equality.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage spans dental, vision, disability, life, and medical insurance, alongside FSA options and related support programs that broaden access to care.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support includes a 401(k) with employer matching and is complemented by performance bonuses that add to total rewards.
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What We Do
Since 1935, we’ve believed that design has the power to make the world a better, more beautiful place. That’s why clients and community members on nearly every continent partner with us to design healthy, happy places in which to live, learn, work, play, and heal. We’re passionate about Living Design, a philosophy that guides our work and emphasizes poetics and beauty; conceptual clarity; research and innovation; technology and tectonics; community and inclusion; resilience and regeneration; and health and well-being. Our team of over 2,500 professionals in 30 studios worldwide provides interdisciplinary services in architecture, interior design, branded environments, urban design, landscape architecture, and more. Our partners include Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects; Portland; Nelson\Nygaard; and Pierre-Yves Rochon (PYR). We’re also part of the Sidara Collaborative, a global network of leading designers, engineers, planners, and consultants.
