Senior Vice President, Member Value & Professional Practice

D.C., The Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) seeks a strategic, market-focused leader to serve as Senior Vice President, Member Value & Professional Practice. This position leads DBIA's strategy for understanding the evolving needs of its members and the broader design-build community and strengthening the value DBIA provides across diverse audiences. This newly established executive position reflects DBIA's commitment to strengthening its understanding of member and industry needs, expanding its reach, and ensuring its continued relevance as design-build project delivery evolves. The SVP will lead the development of a segmented approach to member value that recognizes the differing needs of key industry audiences while remaining grounded in DBIA's unique focus on advancing effective design-build project delivery. The position also provides executive leadership for DBIA's membership and professional practice functions, identifying emerging trends, practices, and opportunities that strengthen DBIA's relevance, reach, and impact. As a member of DBIA's senior leadership team, the SVP will translate member and market insights into organizational strategy, working across functions to strengthen the value DBIA delivers to the design-build community. Key Responsibilities

Member Value Strategy & Insights: Lead DBIA's strategy for understanding and strengthening member value, using research, segmentation, market intelligence, and engagement data to identify differing audience needs and translate insights into actionable organizational strategies.

Membership Strategy & Growth: Provide executive leadership for membership acquisition, retention, engagement, and experience, ensuring strong operations, systems, and data capabilities while identifying opportunities to expand DBIA's reach and relevance.

Professional Practice Leadership: Anticipate emerging issues, technologies, and trends affecting design-build practice, working with industry experts and volunteer leaders to develop guidance, resources, and initiatives that advance Design-Build Done Right®.

Strategic Industry Engagement: Identify and engage emerging audiences and strategic industry partners, strengthen relationships across the design-build community, and cultivate the next generation of design-build practitioners and leaders.

Organizational Integration & Impact: Work collaboratively across DBIA to translate member and industry insights into education, events, communications, and other initiatives that deliver meaningful value and strengthen engagement.

Organizational & Financial Leadership: Lead and develop high-performing teams, establish measures of effectiveness, oversee budgets and performance, and ensure assigned functions and initiatives support DBIA's strategic priorities and financial sustainability.

Qualifications & Experience

Bachelor's degree required.

Minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience, including substantial leadership responsibility in member/customer experience, market strategy, industry engagement, business development, or a related field.

Strong knowledge of the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, including issues affecting project delivery and professional practice.

Demonstrated experience using research, segmentation, data, market intelligence, and stakeholder input to understand diverse audiences and translate insights into strategy.

Proven success leading significant programs or business portfolios, including responsibility for strategy, growth, engagement, and financial performance.

Working knowledge of membership systems, databases, and related technologies, with an understanding of how data and technology support operations, engagement, and growth.

Demonstrated ability to lead through other leaders, build high-performing teams, and collaborate across organizational functions to turn strategy into action.

Ability to build credibility and relationships with senior industry practitioners and engage diverse professional perspectives.

Experience with professional or trade associations is valued but not required. Association volunteer leadership or active industry participation may provide relevant experience.

Eligible for consideration for a discretionary year-end bonus based on organizational and individual performance.