San Francisco, USA
Project architect/designer
at New Avenue
New Avenue is hiring a project architect/designer to join its team in San Francisco, USA.
The role: salaried design team member with a focus on ADUs and updating older homes to become modern family compounds
The architect/designer position is open to a wide range of experience levels.
Your responsibilities will include working with clients from initial consultations through to completion of construction administration on projects including ADUs and small complexes.
Typical projects include house-lifts and detached two and three bedroom ADUs ranging from 400-1500 square feet. You will be responsible for client communication, project management, design work, drafting and detailing, presentations, permitting, and construction administration.
Your values
You are passionate about using design to have a positive social impacts and making our built environment more beautiful, sustainable, and equitable. You enjoy working with people and solving problems using creative design solutions. You are a good listener and communicator, making our clients feel well-cared for and that their needs are being met and problems are being solved beautifully and efficiently.
Your qualifications:
- detail-oriented
- strong design sensibilities
- experience in designing ADUs, Custom Homes, and major remodels and additions
- have worked on fast-paced, deadline-driven projects
- enjoy helping your colleagues and together doing the best work possible
Your activities
You will be part of the New Avenue design team and will be assigned to a variety of residential projects throughout the California Bay area. This is a fully remote position, but candidates should be comfortable traveling for meeting clients and construction site visits, Covid-safety dependent.
On a day to day basis, this position involves: logging in to our self-developed project management app, following up with client communications, developing project schedules, executing design work, presenting ideas to the internal team and to clients, managing and collaborating with outside consultants, executing design work using Revit and other tools, creating full construction documents, fostering the project through the permitting process, and facilitating construction administration services. This requires the capacity to juggle several projects at the same time so you must be adept at project management and disciplined in following a strict project schedule by adhering to deadlines and deliverables.
You will be assigned to your own projects and clients within the NA team under the direction of a senior staff member. This gives you a lot of flexibility and design freedom as well as a lot of responsibility for the success of your projects.
Required skills:
- Autodesk Revit or Revit LT (including phasing, component creation, and sheet layout)
- Adobe Creative Suite
- GSuite
- great communication and writing (you can use just the right words to say just the right things)
- experience leading residential projects
- custom detail drawing experience
Supplemental Skills (nice-to-have):
- construction administration experience
- sustainable design knowledge
- permitting process experience
- construction administration
Compensation benefits:
- above market salary
- full time and flexible work hours
- an ownership culture, you will be respected as the leader of your work and a future leader in your field
- hours for licensure, mentorship, time, and tests paid for
- 11 federal holidays, and three to four weeks of vacation
- work from home or the office as desired (a policy for five plus years’ now)
- healthcare stipend paid directly
- annual team-building events and trips. We’re shooting for a legendary annual cat-skiing trip
- benefit conditions – waiting period may apply – only full-time employees eligible
About new avenue
New Avenue is pioneering a new vision for housing in America and a new model for designing and building industry. We are an employee owned, technology start up with financing, operations and other core business functions that allow us to create the most interesting and impactful residential projects.
We manage residential projects from the initial call through a comprehensive design and construction process. The entire process is centred on the homeowner and our goal is to create a home that will be a source of health, happiness, and value throughout your lifetime and for generations to follow. We do this with a focus on quality, transparency, sustainability and improving the built environment through design excellence.
Our core values
Access
Housing is a right and we increase and democratize access to quality homes and neighborhoods
Health and sustainability
We design homes that address sustainability in three ways: environmental, social, and economic. Two of the most important factors in a sustainable healthy home is where you live and who you live with. We design to maximize quality of life – both for our client, our neighborhoods, and the global environment. First we expand access to ownership in the most sought after neighborhoods, then we design for increased connection to family and neighbors, then we decrease energy use and improve materials.
Design excellence
We want you to lead as we create an exciting future for our cities and suburbs. We work within the urban boundary to densify our communities. We custom design and custom build all projects because each property and existing building is unique. Creating new housing in existing cities entails a wide range of architectural styles, uses, and project types.
Remote work
New Avenue has been a work-from-from home culture since before the days of Covid. Local site visits and city permitting research is often required to be done in-person, however this is flexible and some fully remote positions are available.
Please submit:
- cover letter (on3 page max)
- resume
- references (include previous employers, mentors, peers and clients if possible)
- portfolio with examples of built projects, as well as any work in progress
Please format the above information into PDFs no larger than 10MB. A link to a personal project, any writing or content you’ve created, website, blog, social media or other examples of who you are and what you do are welcomed.
Job type: full-time