Archistar

Principal Director – Building Code

Archistar

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Los Angeles • United States

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • **Your Day-to-Day****
  • - Serve as Archistar’s principal technical and regulatory authority on U.S. building codes, including structural, life safety, accessibility, energy, and fire-related provisions
  • - Set and govern the national framework for building code interpretation, assurance, and regulatory defensibility within digital plan review systems
  • - Own the principles, standards, and guardrails that govern how building codes are translated into structured, rules-based environments
  • - Act as the final authority and escalation point for complex, ambiguous, or high-risk code compliance matters
  • - Review and assure interpretations involving alternative methods, equivalencies, performance pathways, and discretionary determinations
  • - Ensure that life safety intent, professional judgment, and real-world enforcement practice are preserved within automated and assisted review workflows
  • - Provide senior technical leadership and assurance for complex or high-risk municipal and state implementations
  • - Guide jurisdiction-specific approaches to state adoptions, local amendments, and administrative discretion, ensuring differences are accurately and defensibly represented
  • - Establish scalable approaches for managing code variation across jurisdictions while balancing consistency with local autonomy
  • - Partner closely with product, engineering, and data teams to review, validate, and sign off on digital building code logic
  • - Participate in statutory assurance processes, audits, and go-live readiness decisions
  • - Represent Archistar in senior government, regulatory, and enterprise engagements, including RFPs, pilots, and statutory reliance discussions
  • - Engage directly with building officials, plans examiners, fire marshals, regulators, and executive public-sector stakeholders
  • - Develop internal building code standards, assurance frameworks, playbooks, and technical guidance
  • - Mentor senior technical staff and strengthen building code capability across the organization

Requirements

  • **What We're Looking For****
  • - 10+ years’ experience in building code enforcement, plan review, inspections, or regulatory compliance
  • - Deep, practical expertise in U.S. building codes (e.g. IBC, IRC, IECC, IFC, ADA) and permitting workflows
  • - Strong professional credibility with Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJs) at local or state level
  • - Demonstrated sound judgment in interpreting complex, discretionary, or performance-based provisions
  • - Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level and public-sector engagement
  • - Experience providing governance or assurance over digital plan review, permitting, or code compliance systems
  • - Strong understanding of how building code requirements are represented in structured or digital rule environments
  • - Deep understanding of how U.S. building codes vary by state adoption cycle, local amendment, and enforcement practice
  • - Experience contributing to, assuring, or overseeing automated or digitally assisted compliance workflows
  • - Involvement in major code adoption cycles, permitting modernization, or digital transformation initiatives
  • **Nice to Have****
  • - Exposure to rules engines, machine-readable code implementations, or automated plan review systems
  • - Experience partnering with technical teams building or maintaining compliance platforms
Benefits
  • **Why You'll Love Working With Us****
  • - Apply your building code expertise at a national, cross-jurisdictional scale
  • - Work with governments that value legal defensibility, due process, and professional judgment
  • - Be part of an award-winning planning technology company partnering with leading municipalities and agencies
  • - Competitive executive-level salary package, including equity participation
  • - Remote-first flexibility across North America, with purposeful travel
  • - A collaborative executive team that values rigor, autonomy, and public-sector credibility
  • - Mission-driven work supporting housing delivery, permitting modernization, and better planning outcomes

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
building code enforcementplan reviewinspectionsregulatory complianceU.S. building codespermitting workflowsdigital plan reviewautomated compliance workflowscode compliance systemsrules-based environments
Soft skills
professional credibilitysound judgmentwritten communicationverbal communicationexecutive-level engagementpublic-sector engagementmentoringtechnical leadershipcollaborationproblem-solving