Home Design Lead

Higharc

6d • Remote

About The Position

Higharc is a VC-backed startup that is changing how new homes are designed and built. Join a founding team who’ve shipped products for Autodesk, Electronic Arts, Nike, and Apple. We have rasied a total of $83M with support from top-notch venture capital firms and more than 18 strategic investors—industry leaders in construction, building products manufacturing, and distribution. We’re seeking a systematic, product-minded Home Design Lead to help conceptualize and develop families of scalable home designs — homes that can flex across regions, lots, codes, and price points. This is not a traditional architecture role, it’s an opportunity to help shape the future of home design at scale. You’ll help design homes as adaptable, repeatable products, not one-off architectural projects. These will serve as the foundation for a fully automated builder experience. Importantly, this role is part of a broader team of BIM and home design experts. The Home Design Lead will be responsible for conceptual design and for maintaining a standard of care for design quality. Expect to:

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
• Familiarity with building systems, cost-effective detailing, and standard construction methods
• Understanding of customer-centric design in a sales or homebuyer context

Nice To Haves

• Comfort with parametric design thinking or configuration logic is a plus
• Exposure to code-driven or computational design tools
• Experience working with national or regional production homebuilders

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Higharc has been remote first since our founding in 2018.
• We offer flexible hours so you can do your best work without missing out on life.
• Higharc offers competitive salaries with significant equity, in a fast-growing, well-funded company.
• Personal healthiness is an important value for us- we provide comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with unlimited PTO, and meaningful maternity/paternity leave to all U.S based employees that are full-time.
• You'll also have access to other big-company benefits such like short and long-term disability plans and a 401K.
• Haven't worked remotely before? We provide a stipend to create the ideal home office.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees