Description 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)