Architectural Design Manager

Job Title

Organizational Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

Support design leadership in maintaining best-in-class performance and advancing Blue Heron's growth and brand through integrated operations, team alignment, and proactive problem solving.

Incorporate Blue Heron design standards for conceptual design integration and support best practices development and documentation.

Oversee that design direction aligns with Blue Heron design ethos.

Ensuring project team adherence to design tools, processes, and standards to ensure efficiency and effectiveness. This includes, but not limited to:

Guaranteeing accuracy of collateral from Design to support the Sales & Marketing Teams

Collaboration and coordination with Visualization for Luminary homes

Creation and management of Discovery assets as required by Discovery and Sales teams, including, but not limited to, presentations, lot fits, and KMZ view studies.

Positively and actively collaborate with leadership and cross-departmentally with teams to ensure adherence to internal processes and quality standards

Provide insight on project and Blue Heron design ethos as needed by the Sales and Marketing teams

Management of designer staff and workload distribution

Training, coaching, and mentoring of designer staff

Interview and hire, mentor and train, for qualified design team roles

Create, monitor, maintain, update, and train processes and procedures for all design related tasks

Encourage routine and consistent use of design software including SketchUp, Revit and Bluebeam.

Collaborate within design teams to ensure processes and procedures are implemented with project teams

Provide architectural design direction and oversight for Luminary homes

'Moderator' of the BH Design Committee, actively calibrating the committee members to the priorities of the day

Perform as designer as needed or required on high profile projects

Present SketchUp models and visualization assets to potential clients for Luminary homes

Requirements

Essential Qualifications:

Minimum 6+ years residential and/or hospitality architectural experience in an architecture or hands-on homebuilding/construction organization with 3+ years of architectural management experience

Professional Bachelor's or Master's Degree from an accredited Architecture program

Architectural Registration preferred, or on track for Architectural licensure

Exceptional cross-functional collaborative attitude and drive to deliver effective results

Proven experience leading design efforts and adherence to design standards

The ability to be decisive in establishing priorities and setting expectations

Experience working cross-functionally with interdisciplinary teams including Construction, Operations, Purchasing, Sales, Marketing, and Accounting

Demonstrate strong leadership skills with the ability to pivot, motivate, develop, and hold teams accountable

Experience working in a high-energy and fast-paced environment

Exceptional professionalism, effective communicator, and problem solver

Routine use of software including Sketchup, Bluebeam, and Microsoft Office Suite (Familiarity with Revit, Adobe Suite, Lumion, Enscape Preferred)