Higharc
Radically simplifying the way we design, build and shop for homes.
Home Design Lead
Location
United States
Posted
85 days ago
Salary
Not specified
Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglish
Job Description
• 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
Job 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
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