Design Manager

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

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