Home Design Lead
Higharc
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
About the role
- Design adaptable home families and template designs: Create plan templates that work across a wide variety of regions, markets, and lot conditions — from narrow infill lots to wider suburban parcels.
- Systematize flexibility: Create robust options and configurations that enable builders to choose from pre-vetted choices for elevations, layouts, and structural details without reinventing the wheel.
- Ensure regional code and site adaptability: Incorporate common code settings, foundation systems, and site strategies for national applicability.
- Balance design quality and efficiency: Embed value-engineering principles into the design system — delivering homes that are beautiful, buildable, and affordable. Create flexibility through value-engineering options to meet a range of builder cost targets
- Contribute to a new kind of plan library: Help define the structure of our option catalog, finish packages, and documentation for small builder workflows.
- Participate in design reviews and maintain responsibility for technical accuracy, drawing clarity, and coordination across disciplines
- Contribute to the development of standard details, design guidelines, and modeling best practices that support automation and scalability
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in residential architecture or homebuilding, with demonstrated delivery of full CD sets in multiple states
- Deep familiarity with single family homes, residential detailing, and single-family code requirements
- Experience thinking systematically to balance code, operations, and design tradeoffs at scale
- Comfort with parametric design thinking or configuration logic is a plus
- Familiarity with building systems, cost-effective detailing, and standard construction methods
- Understanding of customer-centric design in a sales or homebuyer context
- Exposure to code-driven or computational design tools
- Experience working with national or regional production homebuilders
Benefits
- comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- unlimited PTO
- meaningful maternity/paternity leave to all U.S based employees that are full-time
- stipend to create the ideal home office
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
residential architecturebuilding systemscost-effective detailingstandard construction methodsparametric designconfiguration logicdesign guidelinesmodeling best practicesvalue-engineering principlesfull CD sets
Soft skills
design qualityefficiencysystematic thinkingtechnical accuracydrawing claritycoordinationcustomer-centric design